Why is Everyone Yelling?

Melani Rayen is the mother of two and is Montessori Certified and shares all about gentle parenting and raising readers over on her Instagram. In this episode, we talk about what Montessori schooling environments look like and why she thinks they are a great decision for her family. In this episode we also talk about giving our kids the freedom to choose and what her idea of coding is and how to implement it with your own kids. We also talk about how the way we were raised as children might not look exactly the same as we raise our kids now and how we handle that as parents.

What we talked about:

4:10- Deciding to implement Montessori learning into her children’s’ lives

8:20- Being present with your children

11:10- Giving your children the freedom to choose

16:50- Implementing small learning activities throughout the day with your kids

19:45- Coding for kids

25:45- Creating a community in India of other parents that are interested in Montessori learning

28:45- Raising our children different than we were raised by our parents

32:05- How children that are big readers can be more empathetic

37:45- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Little Fingers at Work

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What Should Danny Do? Book Series

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Emily Boucher has taught both preschool and kindergarten in NYC, including at The Brearley School and The Buckley School. She later served as the Director of Beginnings Nursery School and as the Associate Director at the Brick Church School. Emily and her friend and fellow teacher, Amy, started a company called Work and Play where they provide individualized early childhood consulting. 

Emily lives in Connecticut with her husband and her 5 kids where she teaches preschool. Her oldest is a sophomore in college and her youngest is 1st grade. In this episode, we talk about helping our kids learn to play independently, communication as parents with teachers, and we encourage you to let there be messes sometimes. 

What we talked about:

4:15- Emily’s kids and family

4:45- Having kids leave the house

7:40- Being a parent of both younger and older kids at the same time

15:25- Fostering independent play

20:25- Allowing there to be messes in the house

26:05- Setting boundaries with independent play

47:05- Communication with teachers

53:30- What they offer at Work and Play

1:00:30- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Elephant and Piggie Books by Mo Willems

Please, Mr. Panda by Steve Antony

Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins

Eat Pete by Michael Rex

Penguin and Pinecone

Work and Play Website

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Kristen is a gardener. She has a beautiful cut flower garden and she also grows vegetables. She helps new gardeners learn to grow vegetables and beautify their yard. She shares recipes that you can make from the vegetables that you grow in your backyard. 

Kristen lives with her family in Canada with her husband and 3 kids. In this episode, she shares all about starting both a vegetable and flower garden in your backyard, her favorite vegetables to grow to feed her family, her son’s autism diagnosis and advice for other parents walking through that, and more!

What we talked about:

3:45- Introduction to Whitney and her family

9:10- Having a c-section while being a professional musician

12:30- Receiving an autism diagnosis for her son

16:05- Working on her marriage when her and her husband felt like they had become distanced

17:15- Starting her gardening work

19:40- Flowers to avoid planting

21:40- Where to start to create a cut flower garden

24:45- Benefits of using a raised bed garden

25:50- Her business and passion of making bouquets for weddings

28:55- Moving with her family

30:45- What zones mean with gardening

34:40- Favorite vegetables to grow to feed the family

35:45- Why to plant marigolds by certain vegetables

37:10- Favorite gardeners on social media to follow

38:20- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Autistic Inclusivity Facebook Group

Cool Flowers

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Kristen’s e-books

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Suzanne and Kim Wade are on the show today! Their daughter, Becky Wade, was on my running podcast, I’ll Have Another, a few years ago. Becky is a professional marathon runner and she wrote a book called Run the World where she wrote about her experience traveling around the world running with different cultures.

Suzanne and Kim had two sets of twins within 20 months of one another. They are both lawyers and now are empty nesters. In this episode, we talk about sports, giving kids the opportunity to try new things, setting boundaries, developing young leaders, and encouraging our kids to have jobs when they are teenagers. 

I really admire the passion that Kim and Suzanne have for showing up for their kids no matter what.

What we talked about:

5:30- Having two sets of twins

7:20- Staying home with the kids temporarily and then transitioning back into the workforce

8:25- Putting the kids in activities and sports

13:25- What they each pulled from their own parent’s parenting styles

16:25- Managing the kids’ arguments and complaints

19:35- Encouraging your kids to have jobs and do chores

24:20- Becoming an empty nester

30:25- Being grandparents and seeing their kids parent

35:00-Making and cultivating friendships at different stages of life

37:35- Setting boundaries with your children

47:30- Giving each child individualized attention

55:20- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Sonny Elephant

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear

Giraffes Can’t Dance

Hank the Cowdog books

American Wolf

A Quantum Life

Run the World by Becky Wade

Becky Wade on the I’ll Have Another Podcast

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David Thomas is the director of family counseling at Daystar Counseling in Nashville, TN. He is the co-author of 8 books including the bestselling books Wild Things and Are My Kids on Track. As a licensed therapist, he works with kids and parents on all kinds of different topics. 

He is a frequent guest on national television and podcasts and has been featured in publications including The Washington Post and USA Today.. He also has his own podcast, Raising Boys and Girls. He speaks around the county on these topics. He has 2 sons that are twins and a daughter.

In this episode, we focus specifically on raising boys. As a mom of 4 boys myself, this topic is extra interesting to me and I am excited to bring you this conversation today!

What we talked about:

4:20- Introduction to David’s work at Daystar Counseling and his family

11:10- The difference of raising boys and girls

15:45- Engaging, discipling, and encouraging boys that is in tandem with the way that they are hard wired

28:35- Rough play and wrestling 

37:15- Communicating with your boys

43:35- Parenting teenage girls vs teenage boys

47:00- Talking with our boys about rough play with their friends

50:55- Advice for talking with boys about their emotions

52:20- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Raising Boys and Girls Podcast

Raising Boys and Girls on Instagram

Raising Boys and Girls on Facebook

Wild Things

Are My Kids on Track?

The Addiction Inoculation by Jessica Lahey

Daystar Counseling

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