The Calm Empowered Parent Vanessa Callaghan

Parents today are charting new territory. Many of us are working to raise our children with an emphasis on emotions despite our own parents not teaching us to regulate our emotions or making us ignore or tamp our emotions down. 
In this episode, a member of Vanessa’s coaching team, Occupational Therapist Kathrynn Dunn, shares top insights about emotional regulation skills for kids and how sensory experiences can lead to overwhelm. She also helps us to accept dysregulation as a natural and manageable response, and to find a balance between being firm and kind when our child’s behavior doesn’t meet our expectations.
This episode aims to help you shift from fixing a problem to meeting a need, while you learn how to assess your own emotions, relate your own sensory experiences to your children’s, and promote the behavior you want to see in your children by modeling it yourself.
Here are the topics we covered in Emotional Regulation Skills for Kids.
How to raise children with an emphasis on emotions when we ourselves were raised by parents who worked to ignore them or tamp them down.
Relating our own sensory experiences to our children’s experiences in order to build empathy and become more effective guides.
Recognizing that dysregulation is a natural response to situations that are overwhelming, overstimulating, and unmanageable.
Finding the balance between over-punishing and overly permissive responses to unfavorable behaviors.
Where to start when building your family’s unique sensory needs profile - the elements to take into account for every family member, such as things they cannot stand, and the things they can’t do without.
Parents and caregivers, we hope you got some valuable insights to help you in the growth and development of your family from this episode, Emotional Regulation Skills for Kids.
Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa’s Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa’s low-cost workshops to your school or group. 
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Let's have some fun exploring our feelings! It’s so important to teach our kids how to identify and express their emotions in empowering and constructive ways. Kids get upset, and often don’t have an answer when we ask, “How do you feel?” And, when they do answer, they can have a canned response as a catch-all, like “I’m fine.”
The good news is that learning how to articulate feelings, desires, and needs are teachable skills! And, the more often your child practices naming their emotions, the more comfortable and adept they will be at identifying and expressing them in empowering and constructive ways.
One of the ways my clients have raised their kids' EQ is adding “feeling words” to their family vocabulary... with a Feelings Chart. For more insights on how to identify and express emotions in constructive ways, watch this short training. I share 10 ways to use a chart that kids love because learning about our emotions doesn’t have to be a drag, or only happen when things go wrong.
Here are the topics we covered in 10 Ways to Boost EQ with a Feelings Chart.
Using movies, songs, and stories to help children recognize certain emotions and relate them to their own lived experiences.
Questions to ask our children around their emotional life to promote reflection and growth.
Building empathy and body language recognition skills through charades and other games.
Learning to identify and name emotions outside of intense moments in order to connect our awareness of feelings and how to express them.
Get your own copy of our favorite Feelings Chart at https://wholeheartedschoolcounseling.com/ and find other ready-to-use printable SEL resources by Anita and the folks at Whole Hearted School Counseling.
Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa’s Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa’s low-cost workshops to your school or group.
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One of the key principles of The Calm Empowered Parent podcast is that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to parenting, and this episode embodies that principle by exemplifying one big-hearted mama’s commitment to discovering the most effective parenting style.
Vanessa sits down with client Tiffany Eng to talk through her parenting journey and how she has discovered the most effective parenting style by embracing being calm in high-emotion situations, fighting back against outside pressures to do things counter to what she intuits her child needs, all while extending empathy towards herself.
You will get a personal look at how Vanessa walks parents through tricky situations and common challenges with their children with tenacity, vision, and commitment. You’ll also learn how you can adapt these strategies and tools to your child and their developmental stage’s needs and goals.
Here are the Topics We Covered in Discovering the Most Effective Parenting Style.
Learning what we as parents need to calm down in a high-emotion situation and to extend empathy towards ourselves as we do for others. How to respond powerfully to outside pressures by pushing back with the tenacity, vision, and commitment to what you know works best for you and your child. Using the ‘previewing tool’ to help your child feel prepared, set expectations, and give them some autonomy and control over the situation Adapting our expectations and strategies based on the developmental stages of our children. Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa’s Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa’s low-cost workshops to your school or group.
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What if we told you that the CLUTTER in your house is covering up bigger issues and contributing to overwhelm in both you and your children? Fortunately, Decluttering Expert and mother of 5, Krista Lockwood is here to teach you how to declutter your home quickly to reduce your workload, promote child independence, and help quell big emotions.
If the very idea of decluttering your home feels like too much, Krista and Vanessa address some of the reasons why parents think they can’t declutter, and proven ways to get it done no matter what life is throwing your way. Listen for simple tools to simplify your life and how to experience the wisdom that less is truly more.
Here are the Topics We Covered on How to Declutter Your Home Quickly for Child Independence Assess how your child’s environment may be contributing to household and behavioral issues
Learn proven methods for creating reliable systems and reducing workload, overwhelm, and big emotions
Discover the underlying issues that emerge when decluttering and how to address them
Learn the lesson of ‘less is more’ as it pertains to children in the home (and classroom)
Krista Lockwood, the creator of Motherhood Simplified, a group, a podcast, and much more, focuses on helping families by showing them how to declutter their homes quickly to ensure they support them, instead of working against them.
Ways to stay in touch and learn with Krista Lockwood:
Discover more about Krista and her work at https://motherhoodsimplified.com/featured-on/
Get 10% off of Krista’s signature course with the code Vanessa10 at https://motherhoodsimp.samcart.com/products/decluttering-simplified-copy
Get Krista’s free guide “How to Create a Decluttering Plan You Can Actually Do As a Mom” at http://motherhoodsimplified.com/DIY
Join the Motherhood Simplified Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2010014145929427/ Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa’s Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa’s low-cost workshops to your school or group.
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Cracking the code on motivating kids can be a puzzle - what works one day might not the next. It can feel confusing to us (and our kids) when we alternate between being cheerleaders and stern drill sergeants, bouncing between providing encouragement and enforcing consequences.
Join Vanessa in this episode as she draws on 15+ years of classroom experience and motivation research to help you gain insights into how to win your child's cooperation, enhance listening skills, and foster focus in school and family life.
Discover how to steer clear of relying on rewards and punishments and, instead, focus on intrinsic motivation. These motivation hacks not only build trust and mutual respect,  but also add a fun twist to parenting!
SHOW TOPICS:
Busting the myth that motivation can only be achieved by “the threat of the stick or the promise of the carrot”
How to help our kids reach their potential without sacrificing our relationship and their social and emotional well-being along the way
Breaking down the potential reasons for low motivation in your child
Practical tips and tricks for incorporating fun and collaboration into your quest for motivation
SHOW LINKS:
Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa’s Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa’s low-cost workshops to your school or group.
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Now introducing The Calm, Empowered Parent Podcast!
Join educational consultant and parenting coach Vanessa Callaghan as she shares what you can expect from this parenting podcast that challenges the notion that parenting needs to be perfect and look the same for every family. Join us on your personal and transformative journey to raising resilient kids!
In the first season of the podcast, Vanessa will be bringing her treasure trove of tools and strategies gained from two decades in the classroom and coaching parents and caregivers to help you find your own authentic parenting style. You can look forward to episodes with parents and experts to help you promote childhood independence, navigate tantrums and meltdowns, motivate kids with less rewards and punishments, and so much more.
Dive into a season filled with real talk and practical tips and stories that will make you feel like you're chatting with a friend. Let's dive into raising resilient kids and becoming calm, empowered parents!
SHOW LINKS
Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa’s Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa’s low-cost workshops to your school or group.
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