I am on the journey with you, I am with you! Highs and lows, you are my peeps!The teen saga continues….Having a teen is like birth, you think you’re so prepared and then…. Reality hits!Teen brain experiences everything so intenselyEps 115 was all about trust and surrender
Celebrate the relationshipUsing and developing breath as a tool4:45 Our children are our teachers – they picked us!We don’t know what we don’t know and our children highlight that for usTheir way of being invites our “stuff” to the surfaceWe then choose how to respondEnd of the day – they are operating from their developmental place, limited skills, brain development7:50 Parenting is a never-ending growth and development workshop – we can choose to resist or to grow/evolve9:15 There is a purpose to this journeyLet’s live a life where we are paying attentionOur children show us stepping stones to our own growthWhen we choose into growth and learning we can influence the experience we are havingYou can only change yourself, you can’t change othersPositive Discipline for TeenagersMistakes our kids make can rock our foundation and philosophy around parentingBeing kind and firm at the same time is one of the pillarsPeeling back layers of what that ^^ meansKindness only = permissiveFirmness only = authoritarianKind isn’t NICE, it’s connected, firm is respecting ourselves and the situationIt’s about progress not perfection, and becoming ever more AWARE of what is happening for usMaking agreements is a kind and firm PD parenting toolGet into our child’s world, here what their needs are, share what we need, make a plan together, declare a deadline, follow through (parents)“What was our agreement?”It’s not about being nice while we deliver a consequence…The invitation is to make agreements with YOUR childrenNot necessarily about the problem we solve, instead it is more about the life skills the kids are practicing inside of the agreement-makingNot about finding a solution that lasts forever – every solution has a shelf life
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