Embracing Your Season: Raising Littles and Understanding Teens with Paige Clingenpeel

Join Paige on this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, where she gives tips on avoiding the summer break meltdowns and those phone calls every few minutes from your kids. Paige shares her own experiences of summertime growing up with her brother, living out in the country, and only having each other to argue and play with. Summertime can be amazing, but it can also bring lots of stress for us as parents. Listen today and feel encouraged and equipped for summer success!

Takeaways:

1. Avoiding meltdowns by having a “bored list” easily accessible with chores and activities they can do during the summer while you are working. Use the “asked and answered” rule. This can make it easier to remind them that they have asked and you have answered them and given them options on the list. This will prompt them to go to that list or to problem-solve for themselves.
2. Come up with themes for each day of the week or for the week. You can take this opportunity to learn about other cultures and plan meals around the culture your theme is about.
3. No WiFi until the chores are done. A tip is to have them send you pictures of their completed tasks.
4. Spend time outside riding bikes, weather activities, fire pit and s'mores, parks & rec schedule, and plan other fun family activities. Be active!
5. Stock the pantry and fridge with food and snacks. Meal plan and have the kids help you with the meal plan for the week as well.
6. Find other families who you can trade off days with to spend time with your kids and vice versa. 

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On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, Producer Mike Segovia joins Paige Clingenpeel on the show, to discuss the topic of increased conflict at youth sporting events. The increase of anger and conflict is growing in this day and age and virtually everything is being recorded and uploaded to social media. Listen as they keep it real and share their life stories and actions at their kids' sporting events.

Takeaways:

Tips for Parent Anger at Sporting Event:

1. Have a conversation with yourself about your values and what matters the most. These questions set the expectations for our behavior. Represent your family and Jesus by being calm and respectful in difficult moments where it is easy to show frustration and anger.
2. Recognize and know what triggers you or sets you off. Be mindful of your environment, take deep breaths, and communicate to your spouse or friends that you need a break, a walk, etc.
3. Address the thoughts you are having before speaking them. Our kids are watching us and we need to be good examples to them and those around us by practicing self-control.
4. Pray it out! Prayer can change things so be mindful by letting Jesus into our experiences.

Helping Kids Process Emotions in Sports:

1. The way they are coached has an impact on how they react or respond to disappointments.
2. Learn to be teachable and grow, especially when making mistakes or feeling like they have failed.
3. There’s a sense of injustice sometimes in sports. Build resilience in experiencing injustice because these things happen in life.
4. Believe the best in everyone.

Paige’s Positivity:

1. My own worth is not equated by my performance.
2. Building a community of people who are like-minded can make a huge difference in your life.

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With internet access seemingly available to children of all ages, online safety is a hot parenting topic these days! How do we talk to our kids about staying safe and keep an eye on what they’re exposed to? Paige welcomes the Chief Parenting Officer and CMO of Bark Technologies, Titania Jordan to discuss this very issue and the incredible system Bark has created. Contrary to popular assumption, an internet monitoring and alert program like Bark prompts healthy conversation with our kids, protects them without feeling like their privacy is being violated, and helps them learn responsible digital citizenship. Wherever you’re at in your parenting stage, this conversation is one you don’t want to miss. 

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Bark: https://www.bark.us/

Titania Jordan: https://www.titaniajordan.com/about

Defend Young Minds: https://www.defendyoungminds.com/

Protect Young Eyes: https://protectyoungeyes.com/

Fight The New Drug: https://fightthenewdrug.org/

Annual Bark Report: Bark-Annual-Report-2023.pdf

Titania Jordan IG: @titaniajordan 

Bark IG: @barktechnologies

Books:

Good Pictures, Bad Pictures: https://www.defendyoungminds.com/books

Titania Jordan Free Book Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oqATKqXcnZzXlZo7IyqjGmnTaQXV48Qq/view

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Sometimes we face struggles in life but how do we walk through those seasons with honesty and humor?  On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, host Paige Clingenpeel has a great dialogue with Molly Stillman discussing her book: If I Don’t Laugh, I’ll Cry. This book is a chronicle of her life’s journey about how death, debt, and comedy lead her to a life of faith, farming, and forgetting what she came into this room for. Molly is an author, speaker, comedy writer, and host of her podcast: Can I Laugh On Your Shoulder. This conversation focuses on the strong women who’ve raised us and will inspire you to navigate life alongside other incredible women who are making a difference in their homes, communities, and workplaces. 

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Molly Stillman

Book: If I Don’t Laugh, I’ll Cry

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Facebook: @stillbeingmolly

Instagram: @stillbeingmolly

Podcast: Can I Laugh On Your Shoulder

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We all struggle with conflict because it is a part of our daily lives - whether we like it or not. On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, host Paige Clingenpeel welcomes  Donna Jones, author of the book: Healthy Conflict, Peaceful Life and host of the podcast, That’s Just What I Needed. Through personal stories and experiences, Donna helps remove the fear we often associate with conflict, showing us it’s a tool that can bring us closer instead of further apart. This podcast is filled with practical wisdom that we can all benefit from and use daily. 

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Donna Jones 

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Podcast: That’s Just What I Needed

Book: Healthy Conflict, Peaceful Life

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Instagram: @donnaajones

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On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, host Paige Clingenpeel has Producer Mike Segovia on the show to do a Q&A interview. They talk about having conversations with our teens when unexpected things happen in life, fostering accountability in marriage, living out the principles of  1 Corinthians 10:13, and being intentional about spending time with your spouse amid parenting and busy schedules. 

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Blending families after divorce or loss isn’t easy.  So many in the world today are trying to blend and mesh their families together. This can be such a difficult process, leading to stress and discord among the family. On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season with Paige Clingenpeel, she has Paul and Jeanette Savage who are authors of the book, Blended: Navigating the Challenges and Joys of a Stepfamily. They share how the vision of the book came about and their own stories and experiences of blending their families together.

Takeaways:

1. Don’t force relationships to happen - Take your time and have those hard conversations, be patient with our kids as they navigate a relationship with the other adult. This helps build the foundations for success in blended families.
2. Build experiences - Go camping, vacation together, have games nights or a picnic. These experiences help bond relationships, help them learn more about each other, and create some pretty fun stories.
3. Go through therapy - Work through issues and hurt from your past relationships before starting a new one. Relationships can never fulfill you in the way that God can. Counseling can be beneficial not only for yourself but also for your family. It changes the way you parent and partner with your spouse in navigating the blended family. 

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Website

Facebook: Blended Book

Instagram: @blended_book

TikTok: @blended_book

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Book: Blended: Navigating the Challenges and Joys of a Stepfamily

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Dr. Nijay Gupta joins Paige Clingenpeel on this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season.   Dr. Gupta is a successful author and academic writer and serves as a Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. Paige and Dr. Gupta discuss growing up in the church and his book, Tell Her Story, which addresses how women led and ministered in the early church. This podcast is packed with amazing knowledge that is easy to understand. 

Takeaways:

1. Dig deeper into the Bible - There are opportunities where you can grasp the word of God and its truth, while recognizing that certain directives or prohibitions were specific to their historical context. They may not universally apply to what God desires for us in our roles, leadership, and relationships.
2. Ask questions - Why do we believe what we believe? It leads us to a place where we learn things. It directs our steps in a way that makes us open to hearing different perspectives. It leads to more truth and understanding in the way God has intended.
3. Have conversations - Keep the dialogue open even when you disagree. Learn to listen with a desire to understand and respect each other's opinions.
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Book: Tell Her Story

Substack: Nijay Gupta

Podcast: Slow Theology

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Did you know that your diet could be related to mental health issues like anxiety and depression? On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, host Paige Clingenpeel discusses several takeaways about diet and how that correlates with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. We need to be mindful of what we are putting in our bodies and how it is affecting our everyday health.

Takeaways:

1. Stimulants - Caffeine, soda, energy drinks, coffee and some teas are examples of stimulants that can affect our bodies in negative ways.
2. Make a food diary - What are we eating and drinking that can have a negative impact and correlate with anxiety symptoms? 
3. Sugar - How much processed sugar are we consuming? Sugar hits the same part of our brain as the pleasure center.
4. Food allergies - They can cause headaches, inflammation and impact your body in negative ways. The majority of the “feel good” chemicals come from your gut so if you are feeling awful, it might be that you need to heal your gut.
5. Water - It’s a natural purifier. Some anxiety symptoms come from lack of hydration.
6. Vitamins and minerals - What fruits, vegetables and proteins are you eating? The food diary can help with this in order to keep track of what vitamins and supplements your body might not be getting so you can add them into your routine.
7. Sleep - Lack of sleep can increase mental health issues like depression, anxiety, irritability, and conflict resolution skills. Sleep helps heal our bodies and restore it.

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Podcast - Homeword with Jim Burns

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On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, host Paige Clingenpeel is joined by Hillary Ferrer. Hillary Ferrer is the founder and President of Mama Bear Apologetics. She feels a burden for providing accessible apologetics resources for busy moms. She is the chief author and editor of the bestselling books Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies, Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality: Empowering Your Kids to Understand and Live Out God’s Design, and the soon to be released Honest Prayers for Mama Bears. Hillary loves helping moms to discern truths and lies in both science and culture.

Takeaways:

Acronym:

R - Recognize the message. This could be lyrics to music, a movie or tv show.

O - Offer objective discernment - Talk about what is being said.

A - Argue for a healthier approach - Teach them how to talk about why they believe what they believe.

R - Reinforce through discussion, discipleship and prayer.

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Mama Bear Apologetics

Podcast

Book: Mama Bear Apologetics

Facebook: @mamabearapologetics

Instagram: @mamabearapologetics

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#embracingyourseason #paigeclingenpeel #podcast #podcastcommunity #counseling #therapy #mamabearapologetics #hillaryferrer #apologetics #partnership #purpose #conversationswithyourkids #ROAR

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