The Spero Show

When you look up how or when to wean your baby, it always talks about the environmental factors to do or have happen. It never talks about YOU and YOUR part in this whole process in weaning. Today, lets pause and take consideration of what you need in place before jumping into this learning phase for your little.

So, we have talked about parenting alone with or without a partner. When you have a habit of parenting alone, though, why does that happen? Let talks today about that connects to the why-factors.

So, the last episode was about how solo parents can parent. But what about if you actually have a partner to parent with? But they don't actually show up in a way that is helpful? Today I want to add perspective to this because so many parents express feeling this way.

Co-Parenting. It's something I have not seen much success in with divorce or separation. In this episde I talk about how I am showing up for my 50% no matter what the other parent is doing. It's my 50% that counts for me and you could do the same.

We all talk about the ray things our kids do and how they KEEP doing them again and again. But, let's think about this. If our kids' behaviors only change when WE do. How much change are WE willing to do? What discomfort are WE willing to go through to affect change in our kids? That answer will answer this: are WE the ones actually holding our kids back?

Do you keep grounding or taking away fun activities and it JUST ISN'T fixing anything with your kids? On top of it, you are taking the fun away for yourself too. Lets talk about what you can do to get out of this cycle.

We've all done it. "I can't do a play date because my kid is off the chart!" But, have you noticed that the behaviors that proceeded this happen again DESPITE the grounding from the play date? Let's talk today about WHY that is.

In the last two episodes, we talked about parenting at your wit's end. The focus was on taking care of you and the basics. Once those are taken care of though, what's next? How do you move forward and get out of feeling overwhelmed? In this episode, I talk about how to free yourself with your perspective. It's from your inside habits that your outside habits can have a chance to change.

So, I had a plan to talk about other things for this pod. Then life hit and I thought, forget it. Today we talk about life. The last episode was about parenting at your wits end. Well, today, I am there. Taking care of me. Just showing up. But you know what I would want to hear? That someone else was going through it and makes it to the other side. I also would want to know if I am doing the right thing. So I share my life today on how taking care of you first and just showing up is often the BEST thing you can do for your kids.

We've all been there. Going days and moments of being at our wit's end. Someone asked me about this recently. What do we do? Well, the first thing to do is to take care of you. How do you do that? Find the why and go back to the basics. Join me as I share how I've looked at my basics to take care of myself and hopefully empower you to do the same.