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Overcoming Parental Guilt: Empowering Choices in Teen Development
In today's episode, Cindy discusses her daughter Maria's tough decision between two sports events, emphasizing the importance of letting teens make their own choices. The episode explores the guilt many moms feel, advocating a shift from controlling "engineering parenting" to nurturing "shepherding parenting." It offers insights into overcoming misconceptions that a child's failures reflect on parenting.
Discomfort is part of growth, underscoring the need to trust the process and lean on support networks. If you are feeling overwhelmed, make sure to sign up for the free discovery call with Cindy to help navigate the challenges of raising resilient teens.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
(0:50) - 5 top reasons we feel mom guilt
(1: 05) - 1. Feeling responsible for every last thing when it comes to our kids.
(1:50) - 2. Comparing your kids to others, and comparing your parenting to other's parenting.
(2:39) - 3. You believe your child is a reflection of your parent.
(3:10) - Cindy's story about mom-guilt and how she weathered the storm.
(7:00) - The conclusion of the story
(7:05) - 4. Prioritizing Protecting over helping them grow and how this creates mom-guilt
(9:00) - 5. Mom's unrealistic expectation of themselves. No one is perfect.
(10:00) - Engineering parenting vs. Shepherding parenting
(11:55) - God modeled what shepherding looks like.
(12:40) - Facing challenges and the culturally misleading messages.
(14:55) - Connecting with last week's podcast message about normal life challenges
(17:00) - The world will not tiptoe around your kids' emotions. How can we help them?
(21:10) - Cindy's Pep Talk : Be kind to yourself.
LINKS :
Free discovery call:
https://www.the.cindymanko.com/11-coaching-page
The Journal Project: My Senior Year Through Mom's Eyes by Cindy Manko
https://a.co/d/2YguEiH
Private Facebook Group just for moms of high school seniors:
www.facebook.com/groups/savvyseniormoms/
CONNECT WITH CINDY:
Instagram: @MankoCindy
Email: [email protected]
WHAT TO DO NEXT:
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Create reminders in your calendar – NEW episodes will be released every Thursday!
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Leave a review on the Apple Podcast app
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Share this episode. Tag #savvyseniormom
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By Cindy MankoIn today's episode, Cindy discusses her daughter Maria's tough decision between two sports events, emphasizing the importance of letting teens make their own choices. The episode explores the guilt many moms feel, advocating a shift from controlling "engineering parenting" to nurturing "shepherding parenting." It offers insights into overcoming misconceptions that a child's failures reflect on parenting.
Discomfort is part of growth, underscoring the need to trust the process and lean on support networks. If you are feeling overwhelmed, make sure to sign up for the free discovery call with Cindy to help navigate the challenges of raising resilient teens.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
(0:50) - 5 top reasons we feel mom guilt
(1: 05) - 1. Feeling responsible for every last thing when it comes to our kids.
(1:50) - 2. Comparing your kids to others, and comparing your parenting to other's parenting.
(2:39) - 3. You believe your child is a reflection of your parent.
(3:10) - Cindy's story about mom-guilt and how she weathered the storm.
(7:00) - The conclusion of the story
(7:05) - 4. Prioritizing Protecting over helping them grow and how this creates mom-guilt
(9:00) - 5. Mom's unrealistic expectation of themselves. No one is perfect.
(10:00) - Engineering parenting vs. Shepherding parenting
(11:55) - God modeled what shepherding looks like.
(12:40) - Facing challenges and the culturally misleading messages.
(14:55) - Connecting with last week's podcast message about normal life challenges
(17:00) - The world will not tiptoe around your kids' emotions. How can we help them?
(21:10) - Cindy's Pep Talk : Be kind to yourself.
LINKS :
Free discovery call:
https://www.the.cindymanko.com/11-coaching-page
The Journal Project: My Senior Year Through Mom's Eyes by Cindy Manko
https://a.co/d/2YguEiH
Private Facebook Group just for moms of high school seniors:
www.facebook.com/groups/savvyseniormoms/
CONNECT WITH CINDY:
Instagram: @MankoCindy
Email: [email protected]
WHAT TO DO NEXT:
-
Create reminders in your calendar – NEW episodes will be released every Thursday!
-
Leave a review on the Apple Podcast app
-
Share this episode. Tag #savvyseniormom