Little Sprigs Podcast

What's Little Sprigs Podcast about?

Welcome to The Little Sprigs Podcast, hosted by Christina Rochelle. On this podcast, you'll find a mix of interviews and recordings focusing on early childhood education, communication, mindfulness. Follow me on social @littlesprigs to keep up with the latest and say 'Hey'

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Little Sprigs Podcast episodes:

12.03.2019
How To Support Development of The Senses w/ Lalla Carini
A lot of you've reached out to me with questions around sensory issues, sensory integration, and how to support the development of the senses in our young children. For today's show, I invited a dear friend Lalla Carini who's been...
08.23.2019
Preparing For The First Day of School
If your child has some anxiety about separating, it can be super helpful for them to see you connecting with the teacher. I would invite the parent to hold their child and sit down with me for tea. When the...
06.05.2019
How To Get Your Child To Clean Up After Themselves
Our children stand before us with endless “What” and “Why” questions, they push back on our requests, refuse our meals, and challenge us to go back inside and come up with something better than, “Because I said so!” But the...
06.03.2019
What To Do When Your Child Starts Hitting Another Child
Christina is Little Sprigs Founder and Parent Educator. With over a decade of experience in early childhood education, Christina has shifted her focus from spending her days running her Waldorf inspired home-based preschool to supporting parents, creating content...
05.30.2019
How To Prepare Your First Child For Your Second Child's Arrival
Our children stand before us with endless “What” and “Why” questions, they push back on our requests, refuse our meals, and challenge us to go back inside and come up with something better than, “Because I said so!” But the...
05.21.2019
Useful Tips For Parenting and Life w/ Rob Scott
Today’s conversation is a dense one. I would recommend listening when you are not distracted or multi tasking. We are headed into about an hour with a dear friend of mine named Rob Scott. He has spent the last...
05.15.2019
From Wellness to Wholeness w/ Meg Berryman
Meg is a women’s empowerment coach + educator, a yoga teacher and mama with a passion for helping the modern day feminine leader to transform their wellness journey into their wholeness journey And then to unleash their gifts and innate...
04.30.2019
Understanding ADHD, Addiction, and Stress as a Coping Mechanism w/ Dr. Gabor Maté
Today's guest is a renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development. Rather than offering quick-fix solutions to these complex issues,...
03.26.2019
Tools For Conscious Communication w/ Lori Petro
Today I invited a dear friend and fellow conscious parenting guide, Lori Petro, to join me for a very important conversation. She is the founder of Teach Through Love. Teach standing for:Transforming the Emotional Abuse of CHildren She is a...
03.08.2019
Elevated Leadership w/ Mark Greenburg
Mark is the author of the book, Elevated Leadership. He is a veteran educator in social and emotional learning and a frequent speaker and trainer on the topics of education, team empowerment, and effective management. He also speaks regularly to...
02.06.2019
The Truth Of Our Voice
It can feel impossible to speak our truth when it has been dismissed and de-valued our entire life. Especially when our subconscious has connected speaking out to experiencing pain. It can feel scary to find out that our truth looks...
02.04.2019
It's OK to Let Your Sads Out
When our child is tantruming, pushing back or having a difficult time it can be challenging for us to hold space in that moment because we have so many unshed tears ourselves. Years and years of suppressed emotions that then get "triggered" when our...
01.31.2019
Letting Go of Agenda
It can be exhausting to go through every day guiding a young child this way and that way, moment by moment. When you develop a routine it will carry the whole family and the child quickly learns what is coming...
01.29.2019
Transitions
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12.05.2018
How To Build Your Child's Emotional Intelligence
Emotional and social intelligence grows and develops through relationship and primarily through the experiences that a child has with his or her parents. When we offer our children empathy and help them to cope with negative feelings like anger, sadness,...
04.18.2016
Journey towards conscious parenting with Sandra Fazio
Sandra Fazio is the author and founder of The Conscious Parent Blog, where she writes and shares what it means to be a conscious parent through her own parenting journey, ... The post Journey towards conscious parenting with Sandra...
03.29.2016
How To Be An Awesome Parent
Aric Bostick is One Awesome Guy As a former teacher, Aric inspires educational audiences nationwide—having equipped more than a half million people with energy and strategies to overcome personal challenges and achieve life-long ... The post How To Be An Awesome Parent appeared...
02.19.2016
Parenting Without Power Struggles
Do you find yourself engaging in power struggles, negotiations, and arguments with your children? Do you want to stop relying on bribes, threats or punishments to get your children to ... The post Parenting Without Power Struggles appeared first on...
02.13.2016
The Truth Behind The Bedtime Battle
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01.28.2016
Raising Confident and Resilient Children with Teagan Bruce
Today we are going to look at 2 distinct ways in which individuals view intelligence and learning, through mindset. Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist ... The post Raising Confident and Resilient Children with...
01.21.2016
Self Care As A Spiritual Practice
“Mothers have an untapped spiritual power within us…qualities of connection, nurturing, intuition and a spiritual authority that comes from our ‘being’, not our ‘doing’.” – Suzi Lula Suzi Lula is ... The post Self Care As A Spiritual Practice appeared...
01.12.2016
Empowering Your Child Through Unconditional Love
“My love is unconditional. No matter what you could ever do, what you could ever say, where you could ever go, Mommy’s Love is unlimited. It will never stop, it ... The post Empowering Your Child Through Unconditional Love...
12.25.2015
5 Natural Human Emotions
There are 5 Natural Emotions that all humans feel and need to express. Love, Grief, Fear, Envy, and Anger. Unfortunately, most of us were not allowed to fully express these ... The post 5 Natural Human Emotions appeared first on...
12.11.2015
Setting Intention
At each turn of the New Year, People make lists of how they want to shift their lives. Lose weight, stop smoking, set a routine, and so on. Why does ... The post Setting Intention appeared first on Little Sprigs.
11.30.2015
The Power of Nonverbal Communication and How It Effects Your Children
Fonta is a Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Educator. Using perceptual and behavioral tools she teaches a rich mix of logical and emotional communication for professional development. Area of Specialism include ... The post The Power of Nonverbal Communication and How...
11.15.2015
The Difference Between Threats and Consequences
This is a difficult place and the definitions of these ideas often get wrongly exchanged... So I want to start by breaking them down a bit. Threats are empty and cruel. They simply teach our children to fear us rather...
11.07.2015
How to Handle Your Child’s Big Emotions
Hey Everybody, Happy November! I really love this time of year. I can’t say that I enjoy the sun going down at 5:07pm. That is a bummer to my evening ... The post How to Handle Your Child’s Big Emotions...
10.30.2015
What Parents and Schools Need To Know About California’s New Vaccine Law
What you’ll learn in this episode: *What is the difference between the different exemptions and how do they affect the different ages? *What resources do you offer parents who are ... The post What Parents and Schools Need To...
03.25.2015
The Secret Power of Storytelling w/ David Sewell McCann from Sparkle Stories
The post The Secret Power of Storytelling w/ David Sewell McCann from Sparkle Stories appeared first on Little Sprigs.
03.23.2015
How To Get Your Child To Listen w/ Christina Perez
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02.03.2015
Aware Parenting with Dr. Aletha Solter
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01.16.2015
The Stories We Tell Our Self w/ Rob Scott
The post The Stories We Tell Our Self w/ Rob Scott appeared first on Little Sprigs.
01.08.2015
How to Stop Bribing Your Child and Move Away From Rewards and Punishment w/ Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well ... The post How to Stop Bribing Your Child...
12.10.2014
Potty Talk w/ Angela Kuhlmann
The post Potty Talk w/ Angela Kuhlmann appeared first on Little Sprigs.
12.03.2014
Work Life Design w/ Nick Pavlidis
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11.25.2014
Guided Meditation with Lucianna Hackbert
Breathe...just breath.
11.20.2014
Surviving the Holidays w/ Mariah Joy
The post Surviving the Holidays w/ Mariah Joy appeared first on Little Sprigs.
11.12.2014
The Potential Dangers of Screentime with Meinir Davis
Meinir has been teaching children for over 34 years. She currently runs the show at The New Village School, a Bay Area independent school located in Sausalito, redefining education for children in grades K-12. http://www.thenewvillageschool.org/
11.04.2014
The Less than Perfect Child with Dr. David Bardsley
Dr. David Bardsley holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., D.D.S. and Fellowship in Oral & maxillofacial Surgery. He is the founder of Silver Eagle Media, a company dedicated to helping individuals increase their cognitive ability and perform at their highest intellectual level....
10.28.2014
Boys Alive with Janet Allison
Janet is the Founder of Boys Alive! As an Author, Educator, and Family Coach, she has been advocating for boys for two decades. With her warm and engaging style, Janet supports parents and teachers nationally and internationally to understand how males...
10.21.2014
Accessing Your Life Story with Karen Apana
Karen has been teaching personal biography workshops for over two decades. She offers deep insights into what it means to be human and how to understand the natural cycles of life we all go through.
10.14.2014
Verbal vs Nonverbal Communication with Fonta Hadley
Based in San Francisco, Fonta runs Eloquence Studio which offers in depth training on verbal vs nonverbal communication skills. http://www.eloquencestudio.com/
09.29.2014
A Joyful Guide To Presence with Swami Sitaramananda.mp3
Swami Sitaramananda is a senior disciple of Swami Vishnudevananda and acharya of the US West Coast centers and Ashram. I love Swami Sita! https://sivanandayogafarm.org/
09.11.2014
Mindsight with Dr. Dan Siegel
Dr. Siegel’s book, Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (Bantam, 2010), offers the general reader an in-depth exploration of the power of the mind to integrate the brain and promote well-being.
09.11.2014
Meinir Davies Part 2.mp3
Meinir has been teaching children for over 34 years. She currently runs the show at The New Village School, a Bay Area independent school located in Sausalito, redefining education for children in grades K-12. http://www.thenewvillageschool.org/
09.11.2014
Meinir Davis Part 1.mp3
Meinir has been teaching children for over 34 years. She currently runs the show at The New Village School, a Bay Area independent school located in Sausalito, redefining education for children in grades K-12. http://www.thenewvillageschool.org/
09.11.2014
Mothering Arts with Kerry Ingram.mp3
Mothering Arts is a wish. A vision. A hope.It’s a wish for all new mothers and their babies to be cared for and nurtured. It’s a wish for every mother to feel that she is supported and worthy of self-care....

What's Little Sprigs Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Little Sprigs Podcast episodes:

How To Support Development of The Senses w/ Lalla Carini

Preparing For The First Day of School

How To Get Your Child To Clean Up After Themselves

What To Do When Your Child Starts Hitting Another Child

How To Prepare Your First Child For Your Second Child's Arrival

Useful Tips For Parenting and Life w/ Rob Scott

From Wellness to Wholeness w/ Meg Berryman

Understanding ADHD, Addiction, and Stress as a Coping Mechanism w/ Dr. Gabor Maté

Tools For Conscious Communication w/ Lori Petro

Elevated Leadership w/ Mark Greenburg

The Truth Of Our Voice

It's OK to Let Your Sads Out

Letting Go of Agenda

Transitions

How To Build Your Child's Emotional Intelligence

Journey towards conscious parenting with Sandra Fazio

How To Be An Awesome Parent

Parenting Without Power Struggles

The Truth Behind The Bedtime Battle

Raising Confident and Resilient Children with Teagan Bruce

Self Care As A Spiritual Practice

Empowering Your Child Through Unconditional Love

5 Natural Human Emotions

Setting Intention

The Power of Nonverbal Communication and How It Effects Your Children

The Difference Between Threats and Consequences

How to Handle Your Child’s Big Emotions

What Parents and Schools Need To Know About California’s New Vaccine Law

The Secret Power of Storytelling w/ David Sewell McCann from Sparkle Stories

How To Get Your Child To Listen w/ Christina Perez

Aware Parenting with Dr. Aletha Solter

The Stories We Tell Our Self w/ Rob Scott

How to Stop Bribing Your Child and Move Away From Rewards and Punishment w/ Alfie Kohn

Potty Talk w/ Angela Kuhlmann

Work Life Design w/ Nick Pavlidis

Guided Meditation with Lucianna Hackbert

Surviving the Holidays w/ Mariah Joy

The Potential Dangers of Screentime with Meinir Davis

The Less than Perfect Child with Dr. David Bardsley

Boys Alive with Janet Allison

Accessing Your Life Story with Karen Apana

Verbal vs Nonverbal Communication with Fonta Hadley

A Joyful Guide To Presence with Swami Sitaramananda.mp3

Mindsight with Dr. Dan Siegel

Meinir Davies Part 2.mp3

Meinir Davis Part 1.mp3

Mothering Arts with Kerry Ingram.mp3