Growing Happy Families

Kim Lee-Own

Raising children isn't easy. When things get challenging it can leave parents feeling like they are failing at the most important job in the world. This podcast aims to help calm the chaos, respond to the rivalry and help the happy, so you can get on with growing your small people and feeling like you're a good parent, making a difference in their lives.

  1. Listening - A superpower for Parents!

    08/08/2022

    Listening - A superpower for Parents!

    A very important component of communication, (Secret No. 1 of the Five Secrets to Happy Children), is listening actively. After all, communication is a two-way process and we sometimes focus on getting our message across first and foremost - and forget the other half of the process. Listening actively is SOOOOO important if we are going to have successful communications with our kiddos (and other people in general, to be honest!). In his amazing book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective Parents, Dr Stephen Covey said, "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." Such wise words. And in order to understand, we must listen - and listen well.  In this episode of the podcast we discuss how listening can help us nurture our relationship with our kiddos, and help us understand what is going on for them,  (super-important when we start trying to understand and identify children's needs - Secret No 2 of the Five Secrets to Happy Children).  In fact, listening actively can be an amazing superpower for being a parent and growing happy families as well as being a human and interacting with others! Finally, Kim and Mairi discuss some quick tips that help take things to even better levels of understanding your young ones and nurturing lovely relationships.  Enjoy!  If you like this podcast and would like to keep in touch, please visit my website, where you can sign up for my newsletter and occasional events notifications. You will get a free pdf with information about the Five Secrets to Happy Children, a super simple system to help raise confident, responsible, independent (and happy!) kiddos. You can follow on Facebook and Instagram or LinkedIn You can contact me at kim@heartfeltthinking.com Thanks for listening !

    37 min
  2. What Would You Do? - Four little words with heart!

    02/06/2022

    What Would You Do? - Four little words with heart!

    Many times, raising children, you will find yourself faced with things that go wrong! It might be accidents - major or minor, or a fight between siblings, homework that hasn't been done or a sports kit that hasn't been washed ready for lessons.  Whatever is happening, often we parents like to spin round fast, put on our superhero cloak and swoosh in, to rescue and fix. Now, sometimes that is definitely the right thing to do, especially if there's injury and danger. But there are occasions when we might make more work for ourselves all in service of feeling like we're being good parents, only to find that we feel exhausted and resentful if the children continue expecting to be helped out at any given moment.  What we probably want, is for our children to learn how to sort things and solve problems for themselves. But we have to help them learn how!  This is where the four little words come in!  This conversation is about helping children think things through...      If you like this podcast and would like to keep in touch, please visit my website, where you can sign up for my newsletter and occasional events notifications. You will get a free pdf with information about the Five Secrets to Happy Children, a super simple system to help raise confident, responsible, independent (and happy!) kiddos. You can follow on Facebook and Instagram or LinkedIn You can contact me at kim@heartfeltthinking.com Thanks for listening !

    44 min

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Raising children isn't easy. When things get challenging it can leave parents feeling like they are failing at the most important job in the world. This podcast aims to help calm the chaos, respond to the rivalry and help the happy, so you can get on with growing your small people and feeling like you're a good parent, making a difference in their lives.