43 min
Brad Montague | Becoming a Better Grown Up for Your Little Person Little People, Big Feelings Summit
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- Parenting
Timestamps02:37 Being a grownup becomes extra real when you have your own little person to help grow up
04:30 Brad asks kids what grownups should do to be better grownups
06:15 What does a grown up look like?
07:30 To really grow up is to show up
09:00 The spectacular and the unspectacular
11:45 How do we maintain the awe and wonder when the shine starts to wear off?
12:55 If we can become better adults we will raise up better kids
15:00 Mum and Dad don’t know it all
15:40 Let’s talk about Kid President
17:00 You’re Beyonce!
18:20 Be who you needed when you were younger.
19:30 Children who do well have had at least 1 stable relationship with a carer or other adult
20:10 Light up when your child walks into a room
23:15 If we do our job well, they’re going to “out love” us all.
23:40 Playfulness, joyfulness and energy
25:10 Deep, dark, heavy play
26:20 Mr Squiggle
26:50 Big, Busy & Boring
28:40 A joyful rebellion
30:10 David Hassellhoff
31:50 How to play in the day to day
33:45 Pop the balloon of seriousness
37:30 Side by side
39:20 Be present, be pleasant
40:20 Pause, breathe, love and do it over and over again.
Brad MontagueBrad Montague is creator of the hit web series Kid President, and Kid Correspondent, and author of the New York Times best seller Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome and Becoming Better Grownups. As an illustrator his work is regularly featured in Joanna Gaines's The Magnolia Journal. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and kids.
Becoming Better GrownupsWhen his first book tour ended, Brad Montague missed hearing other people's stories so much that he launched what he dubbed a Listening Tour. First visiting elementary schools and later also nursing homes and retirement communities, he hoped to glean new wisdom as to how he might become a better grownup. Now, in this playful and buoyant book, he shares those insights with rest of us --timeless, often surprising lessons that bypass the head we're always stuck in, and go straight to the heart we sometimes forget.
Each of the book's three sections begins with the illustrated story of "The Incredible Floating Girl." Brad weaves this story together with lessons of success, fear, regret, gratitude, love, happiness, and dreams to reveal the true reason we are here: to fly, and to help others fly.
Beautifully designed and featuring Montague's own whimsical 4-color illustrations that appeal to the kid in all of us, Becoming Better Grownups shares the purpose and meaning we can all discover merely by listening, and reveals that--in a world that seems increasingly childish--the secret to joy is in fact to become more childlike.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Timestamps02:37 Being a grownup becomes extra real when you have your own little person to help grow up
04:30 Brad asks kids what grownups should do to be better grownups
06:15 What does a grown up look like?
07:30 To really grow up is to show up
09:00 The spectacular and the unspectacular
11:45 How do we maintain the awe and wonder when the shine starts to wear off?
12:55 If we can become better adults we will raise up better kids
15:00 Mum and Dad don’t know it all
15:40 Let’s talk about Kid President
17:00 You’re Beyonce!
18:20 Be who you needed when you were younger.
19:30 Children who do well have had at least 1 stable relationship with a carer or other adult
20:10 Light up when your child walks into a room
23:15 If we do our job well, they’re going to “out love” us all.
23:40 Playfulness, joyfulness and energy
25:10 Deep, dark, heavy play
26:20 Mr Squiggle
26:50 Big, Busy & Boring
28:40 A joyful rebellion
30:10 David Hassellhoff
31:50 How to play in the day to day
33:45 Pop the balloon of seriousness
37:30 Side by side
39:20 Be present, be pleasant
40:20 Pause, breathe, love and do it over and over again.
Brad MontagueBrad Montague is creator of the hit web series Kid President, and Kid Correspondent, and author of the New York Times best seller Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome and Becoming Better Grownups. As an illustrator his work is regularly featured in Joanna Gaines's The Magnolia Journal. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and kids.
Becoming Better GrownupsWhen his first book tour ended, Brad Montague missed hearing other people's stories so much that he launched what he dubbed a Listening Tour. First visiting elementary schools and later also nursing homes and retirement communities, he hoped to glean new wisdom as to how he might become a better grownup. Now, in this playful and buoyant book, he shares those insights with rest of us --timeless, often surprising lessons that bypass the head we're always stuck in, and go straight to the heart we sometimes forget.
Each of the book's three sections begins with the illustrated story of "The Incredible Floating Girl." Brad weaves this story together with lessons of success, fear, regret, gratitude, love, happiness, and dreams to reveal the true reason we are here: to fly, and to help others fly.
Beautifully designed and featuring Montague's own whimsical 4-color illustrations that appeal to the kid in all of us, Becoming Better Grownups shares the purpose and meaning we can all discover merely by listening, and reveals that--in a world that seems increasingly childish--the secret to joy is in fact to become more childlike.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
43 min