Quick Tips to Renew Your Parenting

Welcome back to Part 3 of the series What A Parent Coach Wishes More Parents Knew. After almost a decade of parent coaching, I have seen so many parents focus so much on behavior problems and wanting a quick fix, without wanting to do the deep work to solve the deeper problem. 

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In honor of the upcoming 10th anniversary of Renewed Hope Parenting, I am doing a 4-part series on what I wish more parents knew after nearly 10 years as a parent coach.

This week's episode focuses on connection (yes, connection, that thing I talk about so much). So many parents come to parent coaching sessions seeking more behavior control ideas or bigger and better consequences. Usually, we are able to find ways to improve the entire family culture by focusing on connection and relationship. 

Join me for episode 77 to see how connection can change so much.

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To celebrate the upcoming 10th anniversary of working as a parent coach, I am starting a 4-part series on what I wish more parents knew. This week's episode centers around the pressure we put on ourselves as parents and how we need to give ourselves a break. Our kids don't need us to be perfect; they just need us to be real.

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Part 3 of the Playful Parenting Series.

The way we play, joke, and find joy and connection with our kids changes as they grow. But their need for connection and relationship never goes away.

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Part 2 of the Playful Parenting Series.

Difficult moments don't need more escalation. Sometimes they need a little softness and lightness.

Let's talk about how to use playful parenting in hard moments.

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Join me for Part 1 of the Playful Parenting Series. 

Being silly, having fun, and finding joy in parenting can help us through hard moments and build connection.

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I think one of the most natural instincts we have as parents is to protect our kids from discomfort. When they’re struggling, we want to fix it. 

And that instinct comes from love. But over time, I’ve had to shift how I think about that. Because if we remove every hard thing… we also remove the opportunity for growth. Resilience isn’t built in ease. It’s built in learning how to move through challenge. 

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We’re continuing our series on raising emotionally intelligent kids, and today we’re getting really practical. We’re talking about those real-life moments that can feel the hardest—the meltdowns, the overwhelm, the big emotional reactions where everything seems to escalate quickly.

Because I think this is where so many parents feel stuck.

We understand that emotions matter. We want to respond well. But in the moment, when things are loud and chaotic and intense… it’s hard to know what to actually do.

So today, I want to walk through what’s really happening in those moments, and what our kids actually need from us.

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Big emotions are not bad.

They’re not a problem to fix. They’re a signal.

They’re telling us something is happening internally that our child doesn’t yet know how to handle. And if we only focus on stopping the emotion, we miss the opportunity to teach them what to do with it. That’s where emotional intelligence is built.

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31 Days to Renew Your Parenting: Daily Guided Reflection to Take You from Surviving to Thriving: Scott PhD, Emily: 9798824813739: Amazon.com: Books

Last week, we started this series on raising emotionally intelligent kids, and we talked about what emotional intelligence actually looks like.

Not calm kids… but kids who are learning how to understand and handle their emotions over time. And today, we’re building on that in a really practical way.

We’re talking about teaching our kids how to name and understand what they’re feeling.

Because this is foundational. And for many of us… it’s something we weren’t taught ourselves.

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