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Slowing down as a new mom may seem entirely impossible with the sleepless nights, the crying, the whole feeling of not knowing what to do. Sometimes just making sure they’re fed, napped, and not crying is hard enough. Joining us in conversation today is Cara Tyrrell, who has devoted her life to supporting parents in the first years of life, from birth to five years old. She is also the founder of Core4 Parenting, where she works as an online early childhood parent educator. Listeners will hear why Cara believes that toddlers and teenagers are similar, and why people love to share their opinions about parenting. Cara touches on go-to scripts and actions to equip yourself with for those tricky moments where you’re parenting in public. We talk about how the pandemic has changed the pace of family life, and how easy it is to miss what’s happening on an interpersonal level in the rush of day-to-day life. Next, we dive into the characteristics you notice in your child that remain the same as they grow, and why the parenting personal development journey is important. She shares some of the coaching tools she uses with us along with snippets of her own identity as a parent to illustrate how they work. Cara shares her advice on self-care, and reveals the details of her Dual Core Development system before sharing the details of her amazing online community of parents and coaching tools. Thanks for tuning in! 
Key Points From This Episode:

• An introduction to today’s guest, Cara Tyrrell, and her website, Core4 Parenting.
• Why Cara believes that toddlers and teenagers are similar. 
• Go-to scripts and actions to equip yourself when parenting in public.
• Why as soon as we catch up to a level with our kids, they shift.
• How the pandemic has changed the pace of family life and parenting.
• How being busy and moving from task to task can mask what is happening on an interpersonal level.
• Why she starts coaching parents by asking them who they were before they had a child.
• Cara gives us an overview of who she is at her core as an example of how this works.
• How her children’s core personalities have stayed the same from early childhood.
• Jessica weighs in on how her children have maintained the same characteristics they had in childhood.
• The parenting personal development journey.
• What Core4Parenting is: a platform to teach parents to be their child’s first and best teacher.
• The two cores of the Dual Core Development system. 
• How she tested all her theories and methodologies as an au pair.
• How to establish the parenting ‘why’: flash forward into the future.
• Why it is dangerous to have different rules for yourself and for your child.
• Why the community piece of Cara’s service is so critical.
• Why you need to know that the people you are sharing your most vulnerable experiences are people you can trust.
•  What she advises for new moms as self-care. 
• Why it is so important for your children to see you evolve and know who you are.
• When the real work starts: when your child has thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
• The nuts and bolts of how the Village works. 
  
  

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Cara Tyrrell on LinkedIn
Core 4 On Instagram

Cara Tyrrell on Facebook

Core4 Parenting

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