Embrace Your Everyday podcast Leah Simpson

Since I was a young woman, I have worked with children. As I dearly love these young hearts, I am particularly attuned to the anger evident in so many of them. Sometimes the anger comes from a wounded place or a response to bullying. Other times it is the response to neglect or even an head injury. This podcast explores practical helps for the prevention and cure of anger in children. Yes, there is prevention. Yes, there are cures. Yes, more than identifying the problem, there is help.
More on this conversation in the companion blog @www.nurturingmynest.com
More on CHILDREN:
25 Ways that Parents Provoke Their Children to Anger
Talking to Your Children About Dating
The Value of a Good Father

Teaching Your Child to Serve: Spiritual Formation @ Home
Loving on Moms with New Babies
 
Books on HOME and FAMILY:
Hum of the Home: Routines and Rhythms of Homemaking
Nurturing My Nest: Intentional Homebuilding and Custom Built Education
 

Anger in a child is a real response. While God holds each of us, even a child, responsible for his or her sin, God does hold parents 100% responsible for their actions which provoke a child to anger. Check out these 25 ways that a parent might provoke their child to anger. Loving my children well means that communication on this topic must remain open to self examination on this topic as well as others. Authenticity and humility as a parent are key to success. 
 
More on CHILDREN: 
Talking to Your Children About Dating
 Nurturing My Nest - The Book 
The Value of a Good Father
Whose Job is it Anyway? The Spiritual Formation of a Child
The Heart of ANGER - Practical Help for the Prevention and Cure of Anger in Children
 
Inspiration on HOME and FAMILY @ www.nurturingmynest.com
 

How is loneliness as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day? For the last few years the topic of a loneliness epidemic has dominated much of the chatter in interpersonal news. This conversation has focused on healthy friendships. In life we often have to walk through the exploration of meeting a number of aquaintances in order to find true friends. This growth mindset might even lead us to look inward and develop the qualities of a quality friend within ourselves. Check out these 10 ideas on how to avoid a friendship recession in your own life.
This conversation continues on a companion blog @nurturingmynest.com 
 
More on FRIENDSHIP:
What NOT TO DO When Making Friends
Fall is for Friendship: 10 Ideas for Enjoying Friends
Friendship in 7 Easy Steps
10 Ways to be Kind
Inspiration on HOME and FAMILY: 
Hum of the Home: Routines and Rhythms of Homemaking
Nurturing My Nest: Intentional Homebuilding and Custom Built Education
 
 

Emotional health is vital to our physical and spiritual health. If shame is a reoccuring theme in my thoughts, it might be identified as a bully. Sometimes shame is a response to guilt, but recycling this toxic emotion once the situation has been dealt with is like an insistent bully. The four steps to respond to guilt allow forgiveness and new thinking. Explore shame in contrast to guilt along with a healthy pathway to eradicate toxic thinking. 
More on HEALTHY THINKING on these podcasts:
Lies Women Believe
Identity Amnesia
Soul Keeping
Investing in the Long Game
Hope and Forgiveness
A Passionate Advocate for Women's Health: Donna Robart
More on HOME and FAMILY @ www.nurturingmynest.com
 

Parenting is hard work. The stages of childhood change rapidly. Before you realize it, it will be time to talk about dating. Approaching this subject with your child can be downright intimidating. Before you begin, know that today's dating culture is radically different from when you were a teen and young adult. Sexual promiscuity is rampant. Sexual identity, date rape, binge drinking, emotional cheating, sexting and a host of new and more shocking behavior is the normal for today's teens. Becoming more acquainted with today's culture is necessary is the on-going job of today's parents. Educate. Read. Listen.
More on Parenting: 
Nurturing My Nest- the Book
Car School 
Considering Homeschooling? Start Here
Whose Job Is It Anyway? Spiritual Formation of a Child 
Training Your Child to Interrupt
 
Inspiration on HOME and FAMILY @www.nurturingmynest.com
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As the mom of two beautiful daughters the topic of beauty materializes often. This conversation is intended to validate the beauty in your daughter and mine. It is imperative that we speak to the dehumanizing of our daughters by the culture that they live in daily. What are the messages that they hear about beauty? What do they hear about their beauty? Dehumanizing deprives a woman of dignity, respect, human qualities, personality and self-worth.