Compassion Parenting Podcast

Our guest today is Mr. Paul Nickels, piano teacher extraordinaire based in Southern Utah! We discuss how to make music a part of your family's life and nurture your kids' growth as musicians. Some highlights of the episode:

1. We are wired for music!
2. Parents play a vital role in a child's musical development.
3. We best learn music in community.
4. Body balance is an important priority when making music.
5. First learn notes, fingerings, rhythms (the what); then add nuances (the how) such as dynamics, phrasing, tone, articulation.

Some quotable quotes from Paul's studio:

"Whether you [stick with music] or not, your lessons will show up in the kind of person you become."

"Nothing works unless you do!"

"Trying until you get it right isn't enough...get it right until you can't get it wrong."

"Practice small things, slowly...Find the 'speed of success'."

The photo on the cover of the episode is Paul's young daughter Amy at the keyboard as a little girl. Message me if you'd like Mr. Nickels' contact info!

Join us for the upcoming (re)CONNECT moms' retreat Oct 24-26th in Southern Utah! We have a few spots left :)

"How to Nurture a Young Musician" with Paul Nickels © Mary Illions Wilde, MD

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Original music composed for Compassion Parenting by Ben Rodriguez https://soundcloud.com/bennicurious

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I’m a MN girl. I’ve sat crying on my couch at times over these last few weeks with all that’s going on, feeling powerless. But here’s what I realized. Powerlessness is a myth. Sometimes it’s in the worst of times that this myth grows especially big, because problems seem too large to tackle and fear takes over. Literally, our nervous system paralyzes us. Or sometimes causes us to hide or run, or stand and fight. Each of these responses may be protective and needed in a given context, but sometimes our actions are reflexive and make no logical sense.

I remember one specific day a few years ago when I opened our front door and a large bird flew straight into our house, rammed into the opposite window and died on our carpet. What did I do in that split second? I screamed and ran into the back bedroom closet–all in one reflexive motion. And then I emerged and asked myself, “What just happened?” My fight or flight system had taken over.

So don’t judge yourself if you feel fear and paralysis right now. But my friend, there is a stronger force to harness if you so choose. That is the force of love. The parasympathetic nervous system that invites nurturing and connection can win out.

This is true in parenting and all of life: “Love never faileth.” How can this be true? Not every initiative conceived with love “succeeds” (or brings forth the intended fruit) and truly the mere feeling of love does not solve the world’s problems. But it is a solid starting and ending point. It is the safe ground to stand upon when all else fails, when all else feels as if it’s crumbling beneath our feet.

Love as a noun is the start, but love as a verb is where all this goes.

So what does love in action look like? There may be some common themes and threads, but the beautiful reality is this. There are too many possibilities to name.

Love in action is a radical, specific act or innovation that cannot be foretold. It cannot be legislated against because it’s so specific to the situation and the individual giver and receiver, that no one can exactly predict or prohibit it.

Love is seeing a need and wisely filling it (in the way only you can because who and where you are in a given moment). Only YOU are at this exact human intersection.

Last night, love looked like making my kids waffles for dinner.

Last month, on Christmas morning, love looked like this:

We had just finished the flurry of gift opening and the family dispersed to integrate their new items and indulge in the chocolate from their respective stockings. I was alone in the kitchen listening to Christmas choral music. I looked out the window and saw a man walking alone on the empty, cold street carrying a backpack. It seemed that he moved to the beat of the song, which happened to be “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” at the moment. It was a soundtrack in a movie and the sky and mountains were the backdrop. This was a moment of internal pause; a human intersection. I could have looked away and gone back to cleaning up dishes and piles of wrapping paper, but I didn’t. I dumped the candy from my stocking, a pair of gloves, an orange, and an apple into a small brown gift bag. I threw on my coat and asked one of my teenage boys to get in the car with me. (Honestly, I was a little afraid and it made me feel safer to have him there.) He was like, “Where are we going mom?” I told him, “I saw this guy through the window walking down the road and I wanted to bring him something. I thought about how he’s someone’s son too, you know. If I was his mom, I’d want someone to do this.”

By the time we got on the road, I couldn’t see him anymore, but we kept driving along trying to predict where he may have gone. I turned into an empty grocery store parking lot, and there he was, digging in the trash can. I pulled the car up next to him and said, “Excuse me, sir. I wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas.” I handed him the bag and we drove away. That’s it. I did not save the world that day. But when I found myself at at this crossroads, this human intersection, I chose what felt like love and it felt right.

So how will you love the world today? How will you choose love at each human intersection? This can be a tough question but it also can be an easy one, and just as reflexive as the fear response.

Viktor Frankl has taught us that, “Everything can be taken from a [person] but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Perhaps we may begin with an attitude of love. A way of love. A way of life. In our own small circles, using our own unique experience and gifts.

In case this feels too theoretical and inaccessible, here are some grounding insights from Barbara Fredrickson’s book Love 2.0:

1. "Love draws you out of your cocoon of self-absorption to attune to others. Love allows you to really see another person, holistically, with care, concern, and compassion".
2. "Love is that micro-moment of shared positive resonance... a tiny, temporary wave of good feeling that rolls through your body and the body of another".
3. "Love is characterized by micro moments of shared positivity, not grand gestures".

What does this have to do with Compassion Parenting, (or any type of parenting, for that matter)? Everything. Your true legacy as a parent is how you’ve taught your children to love by loving them and by loving others well. Just as you’d teach them to responsibly pick up after themselves at home, teach them by your actions to responsively care for this world, the home that they will one day inherit.

Powerlessness is a myth. Love is the answer. What will your radical act of love be today?

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If you need some ideas for converting your love into action, here are some to consider:

-Speak up to notify your representatives about your views. The 5 Calls app can help make it easy.

-Donate to a cause that resonates with your value system. Some of my recent favorites: Pediatric Mobile Health (select "Pediatric Mobile Healthcare"), Haven Watch, STEP.

-Check on a neighbor or friend (particularly those in vulnerable groups) and see how they are doing

-Have a conversation with your kids about what's going on in the world. (See these tips for making it age-appropriate.) Recognize the influence your example has in shaping your kids' value system. Model integrity.

References: Love.2.0 by Barbara Fredrickson, 1 Cor 13

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How do you build connection and foster healthy attachment in your family? In today's episode we'll discuss all things attachment with our guest Eli Harwood, author of "Raising Securely Attached Kids." It turns out that attachment is not just about babies and toddlers. Eli shares FOUR main areas for parents to focus on to help kids feel loved and secure. She says that as parents we need to...

1) LIGHT UP

2) SHOW UP

3) LISTEN UP &

4) MAKE UP

Take a listen to the full episode to learn the details of what these steps mean and how to apply them. You can find Eli's work @attachmentnerd and at her website attachmentnerd.com.

*If you loved this episode, join us for the upcoming moms' retreat Project CONNECT Oct 24-26th in Southern Utah! We have a few spots left :)

"Fostering Connection and Healthy Attchment" with Eli Harwood © Mary Illions Wilde, MD

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Original music composed for Compassion Parenting by Ben Rodriguez https://soundcloud.com/bennicurious

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Kaylin Marcotte is the founder & CEO of JIGGY, a new jigsaw puzzle brand on a mission to modernize and elevate the humble jigsaw, and support female artists around the world. She turned her hobby into a company and has been featured on Shark Tank, Oprah's Favorite Things and won over celebrity fans including Gwyneth Paltrow, Lili Reinhart and Chrissy Teigen. Kaylin was previously the first employee at media startup theSkimm, and is an alum of Barnard College in New York City. Grab your own JIGGY puzzle and do the "puzzle test" today! Go to jiggypuzzles.com for a discount on your first order!

Download a free copy of Dr. Wilde's ebook "Finding Calm: Stress Detox for the Modern Family" HERE and find more info about her programs, including Resilience School, at drmarywilde.com.

"Returning to Old School Wellness Practices" with Kaylin Marcotte © Mary Illions Wilde, MD

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Suzanne Tucker, founder of Generation Mindful, is a mom of four who's been a physical therapist and parent educator for 30 years. As an author and international speaker, Suzanne's life's work is to help families create more moments of joy and connection. She believes the most impactful way to create a more just and peaceful world is to evolve how children are raised, replacing fear and shame-based practices of old with skill-building solutions that nurture secure attachment and a sense of safety and connection between the generations. Check out the Generation Mindful social-emotional learning tools, toys, and classes HERE and connect with Suzanne on IG @generationmindful. 

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"The Playful Path to Reparenting" with Suzanne Tucker © Mary Illions Wilde, MD

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The Healing Power of Kindness 

My friends, happy birthday! Today marks the birthday of my podcast and it also marks the birthday of my mother, so in honor of these, I thought I’d share something that’s been on my heart for over a year: a message about the Healing Power of Kindness.

Now, as a mother I’ve learned to be patient, to know that everything has its gestation–even ideas. I’ve been working for some time on a book called Compassion Parenting. And one underlying premise of the whole concept of compassion is the immense & inherent value of a human soul. Another is that kindness matters. 

Let me take you on a journey through a series of stories because that’s how we learn and experience. First a story of rabbits, then candlesticks, then a blue-haired girl, and then, the story of a story. 

You might be wondering why I’m telling you all these stories–this isn’t your typical parenting podcast episode. Yet kindness has everything to do with parenting. It is essential in all the most important relationships in our lives, including our relationship with ourselves.

Kindness improves health. Research tells us that being in a nurturing, kind environment can improve blood pressure, immunity, and even prolong life. This isn't to say that kindness cures all ills, but it certainly helps.

Dr. Kelli Harding, in her book, The Rabbit Effect, describes a study on rabbits performed in the 1970’s that puzzled scientists. The experiment was designed to prove that a high fat diet would lead to high cholesterol and heart disease, but when they studied the tiny blood vessels under the microscope, they found one group of rabbits who had 60% less fatty buildup in their blood vessels. They looked for any possible differences between the two groups of rabbits and the only difference they could find was in the care they’d received. The healthier group had been taken care of by a postdoc student who was naturally kind. She pet the rabbits and talked to them as she fed them and cleaned their cage, and this kindness manifested in their physiology.

As a pediatrician, I’ve seen firsthand how kindness influences mental and physical health. I see light shining from kids’ faces and in their eyes. It’s the kindness and love you have put in. It’s visible and tangible. It’s a real thing.

Kindness changes people. Most of us know the story of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo where the main character, Jean Valjean is transformed by kindness. After being imprisoned for many years for stealing a loaf of bread, Valjean is finally released but is treated like an outcast and can’t find work. He gets so desperate, he steals silver from a bishop and when he’s caught, the bishop mercifully claims the silver was a gift and proceeds to give Jean Valjean some silver candlesticks. This act of kindness changes Jean Valjean, and he dedicates his life to goodness.

Even though this story is fictional, we can all relate to it because we’ve seen or experienced the softening that can happen when kindness is extended.

But kindness doesn’t only heal others, it heals us. 

Years ago, in addition to taking care of my kids, I was in the midst of caring for my mom who had recently had a stroke. I felt emotionally and physically exhausted.

During that period, as I was driving down the road, I saw a teenage girl with blue hair walking along the sidewalk. She was carrying a backpack almost as big as she was and looked like she’d fall over backwards. She held a red rose in her hand. I felt connected to her immediately, maybe because with the heaviness of what she was carrying, she looked how I felt. I pulled over next to her and asked where she was going. At first, I didn’t feel comfortable offering her a ride because I had a couple of my kids with me in my van (not to mention two cinnamon-colored chairs I was transporting), but I offered to drive her backpack there. She pointed out a bus stop down the street and loaded it in. 

I met her at the bus stop with her backpack, but maybe because she had trusted me, I felt I could trust her. I asked her where she was headed on the bus and offered to take her there. While we drove, we talked and when I dropped her off she gave me the red rose. My heart felt happy and I think both of our burdens felt lighter.

For a long time I wondered how it could be so healing to give this stranger a ride, but several years later I found my answer in a small book called Connecting with Eternity by Forest Dalton. He writes, “The essence of happiness is union. The essence of suffering is separation….Acts of kindness help to liberate us from self-serving behavior, and in the process they help to liberate us from being stuck in the dimension of time. Every act of kindness creates a link between the dimension of time and the eternal now.”

Kindness not only connects us to each other, but it frees us from the constraints of time and situation. It connects us to something bigger. 

But we’re imperfect. We’re not always kind. This calls for another layer of compassion–a healing balm for our humanness. It also requires repair work, forgiveness, grace, and sometimes leaves unanswered questions and loose ends.

Still, what needs to happen always happens in time. In fact, I could only finish this podcast episode because of a surprise gift that came in the mail yesterday. A padded goldenrod envelope held the ending of this episode, the closure of an unfinished idea. It was a beautiful children’s book “The Birthday of the World” signed and sent by the author herself (Dr. Rachel Remen) after an online conversation we shared. 

In this book, Dr. Remen tells a story her grandfather told her about how the world came to be. He described how light pierced the darkness and broke into millions of pieces entering you and me and all things. 

On this birthday of my podcast and birthday of my mother, I’ll read a brief excerpt from, The Birthday of the World:

“When we are kind to people

Or listen to them

Or believe in them

Or love them

Or help them realize their deepest dreams

We help their spark grow bigger and brighter, until their light shines out and fills up the world again…

One spark at a time we can change the world back to the way it was at the beginning—whole and filled with light.” 

This is kindness. This is parenthood.

© Mary Illions Wilde, MD

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Original music composed for Compassion Parenting by Ben Rodriguez https://soundcloud.com/bennicurious

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Vivek Patel is a conscious parenting mentor, a student of life, an artist, dancer, martial artist, writer, poet, jewelry designer and Dad! Through his own conscious exploration, he developed a non-coercive, collaborative parenting approach which he now teaches to parents around the globe. His main wish is to help parents have closer relationships with their kids. Vivek is the founder of @meaningfulideas on IG, FB, YouTube, and Twitter and is a sought-after speaker & podcast guest.

"The Connecting Power of a Collaborative Approach" © Mary Illions Wilde, MD

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Hesha Abrams, Esq. is an internationally acclaimed master attorney mediator known for crafting highly creative settlements and resolutions in very difficult matters. By "holding the calm," she has created settlements worth billions of dollars and saved clients billions more using her innovative approaches to deal making. In her book, "Holding the Calm: the Secret to Resolving Tension and Defusing Conflicts," she shares the secrets that can help us as parents know how to prevent explosions, disarm conflicts, and reduce drama. You can find out more about Hesha at HoldingtheCalm.com and sign up for her monthly newsletter!

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Stephanie L. Jones gave a gift every day for 522 days, and that journey changed her life. Now she's on a mission to inspire others to give and practice gratitude daily. She hosts an inspiring podcast, Giving Your Best Life, focused on ways to incorporate giving, gratitude, & goals into daily living. As a TEDx speaker, she loves sharing her message from the stage in schools, colleges, churches, and businesses. Stephanie is a best-selling and award-winning author of six books. She lives out her dreams with her hubby, Mike, in Indiana. You can follow Stephanie on IG @giving_gal and find her books, her Giving Challenge, and her TEDx at givinggal.com. 

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Today's guest, Nicholeen Peck, is a worldwide phenomenon and leader. Her proven parenting principles and self-government skills transform all children, from tantruming toddlers to even the most troubled teens. The world saw this in 2009 when the BBC, in England, featured her and her family in a documentary called The World’s Strictest Parents. The Peck family episode became the “most watched episode ever” because of the amazing transformation their calm parenting approach brought about in the troubled British teens who stayed in their home. Over the years, the Peck family had a lot of practice parenting troubled teens as foster parents for treatment foster children.

Nicholeen knows that to change the heart of one child, parents must have a parenting heart-change first. So, for the past 23 years she has spent her life helping parents learn the skills that they need to unite the hearts in their families. She’s the author of 11 books, including her best selling book Parenting A House United, and her very popular children’s book series that teach the Four Basic Self-Government Skills to children. She is a sought after speaker around the globe and even consults at global congresses and the Untied Nations as she tries to protect children and women as well as strengthen families. You can learn more from Nicholeen on her YouTube channel “Teaching Self-Government,” on the “Teaching Self-Government Podcast,” and at her website teachingselfgovernment.com.

"Helping Kids Learn to Listen" with Nicholeen Peck © Mary Illions Wilde, MD

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