Living Through

I've noticed that intentional parents all seem to want to raise confident kids.  How do you raise kids who are free of doubt, who believe in themselves and their abilities, and who have a feeling of trust?  There are 5 key points that it they’re present, will most likely be on the right path to raising a confident kiddo.  They are in no particular order.

 

* Chores

* Empathetic Accountability

* Self-Compassion

* Choices

* Boundaries

 

Imperfect parenting is the only option, it's all there is so do what you can and continue to be the intentional parent you are.

Our nation is currently in an empathy crisis. Empathy is putting yourself if someone else's shoes according to their reality and their life experiences to the best of your ability. It is acknowledgement of. It's the idea that I get that this is important to you. Brene Brown says that it's communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You're not alone.’ Empathy allows us to connect and is the glue that keeps families, relationships and communities together.

The bad news is we don’t get to pick how we feel (begin throwing the rotten tomatoes now). Things happen and we feel. The good news is that we absolutely do get to choose the situations, conversations and relationships that we put ourselves in and we absolutely do get to choose what to do with. Feelings are like toddlers. Some are fun and some are not. At the end of the day, like toddlers, feelings need to constantly be validated or acknowledged. As we allow ourselves to share our vulnerable and raw feelings, the really hard ones, we open ourselves up for connection.

Our nation is currently in an empathy crisis. Empathy is putting yourself if someone else's shoes according to their reality and their life experiences to the best of your ability. It is an acknowledgment of.

We all are walking down, running down, stumbling down or even being dragged down a path of imperfection because imperfection is part of the human experience. There is a huge difference between healthy striving and perfectionism and when perfectionism is present it becomes destructive to ourselves and to those around us. Embracing the human part of ourselves is the first step onto this path of imperfection.

The bad news is we don’t get to pick how we feel (begin throwing the rotten tomatoes now). Things happen and we feel. The good news is that we absolutely do get to choose the situations, conversations, and relationships that we put ourselves in and we ...

​We all are walking down, running down, stumbling down or even being dragged down a path of imperfection because imperfection is part of the human experience. There is a huge difference between healthy striving and perfectionism and when perfectionism ...