Why is Everyone Yelling?

Wendy Snyder is the fonder of Fresh Start Families. She is a Positive Parenting Teacher & Family Coach, helping families parent with great purpose and intention by creating healthy, respectful & cooperative relationships. She is a Certified Parent Educator of Redirecting Children’s Behavior (RCB) and an advocate for families.

In this episode we talk about strong willed kids, age appropriate behavior and the power surges kids go through at different ages. We also talk about redirecting behavior and teaching our kids about their feeling. Lastly we finish off talking about agreements ahead of time and designing logical consequences.

This episode is packed with actionable take aways!

Make sure you check out Wendy’s 5 Day Free Parenting Challenge – free 5 day mini courses that starts on Monday, January 25th!

What we talked about:

3:30- Introduction to Wendy and Fresh Start Families

7:45- Definition of a strong willed child

17:30- The difference between punishment and discipline

28:00- Steps of discipline

42:45- Creating logical consequences

50:30- Free parenting challenge that Wendy is offering

52:40- End of podcast questions

Previous Podcast Episodes with Wendy:

The Illuminate Podcast Episode 39 – Compassionate Discipline

The Illuminate Podcast Episode 15 – Positive Parenting

Book Recommendations:

Redirecting Children’s Behavior

Jesus the Gentle Parent

Connect with Wendy:

Fresh Start Family Online

Fresh Start Families Podcast

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Katie Arnold joins us for round two on the podcast today! You first heard from her in episode 9 when we talked about raising adventurous kids! Today she returns and we talk about kids and sports and why it’s so important to nurture a love for sport AND play. It can be really easy to get sucked into the World of signing your kid up for ALL THE THINGS and we want to stay curious and examine why we sign our kids up for things and how to strive for a healthy ratio of organized sport versus unorganized free play.

Here is a little more about Katie in case you missed our first episode! She is the mother of two girls, an ultra runner and a writer. She won the Leadville 100 in 2018 and her work has been published in Outside, her stories have appeared in The New York Times, Men’s Journal, ESPN the Magazine, Marie Claire, Runner’s World, Elle, and Sunset, among others.

She created and launched the popular Raising Rippers column, about bringing up adventurous kids. Her families can be found adventuring up mountains and down rivers and I wanted to hear her tips and ideas for how to pursue a lifestyle like this with your kids.

Katie is also an author and her first book, a memoir; Running Home is now available in paperback- make sure you check it out at your local bookstore and it’s also available on audible narrated by Katie. If anyone’s interested in hosting a live Zoom event, contact Katie through her website katiearnold.net, where you can also find info about running and writing FLOW retreats she leads!

Let’s get to hearing all about raising adventurous kids now!

What we talked about:

2:45- An update on what Katie has been up to with her kids

5:45- The discussion of balancing kid’s sports with other priorities

17:10- How to balance schedules with encouraging kids to be well rounded with sports and activities

26:25- The balance of starting kids young in sports

30:20- Encouraging play over competitive for kids

38:25- The life lessons that team sports can teach children

59:00- Being intentional to create the experience that you want for your family

Show Notes: 

Norwich – One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness and Excellence

Don’t Let Youth Sports Hijack your Life

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Happy Holidays friends! I am taking a break week this week and just wanted to pop on to say hi and I hope you are enjoying this season. It’s a challenge over here if I’m being honest and I wanted to say you are not alone if you are struggling as well! Sending so much love to each of you!

 – Lindsey

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Alex Caspero, Registered Dietitian with Plant Based Juniors comes back today! We had so much to cover during our first episode that we decided to go for round two! Great news- after our first conversation Alex became inspired and created a free protein guide you can check out.

We cover A LOT in this episode. It is packed full of great information around food, the kitchen and kids. We talk about language in the kitchen with our kids, giving the kids choices around meal time within reason, picky eating, getting in the protein you need in plant based food, supplements and seasonal eating!

Alex is a wealth of knowledge and explains things simply and easy to understand!

Alex Caspero is a Registered Dietitian and plant based Chef, she is the Founder of Delish Knowledge and the co-founder of Plant Based Juniors. She is the Mom of two and personally focuses on plant foods with a little dairy or egg and what I love about her approach to food and plant based eating is that it’s not an all or nothing deal. Over at Plant Based Juniors, she and her business partner Whitney offer a complete guide to plant-based prenatal and pediatric nutrition.

What we talked about:

4:15- Plant based protein that are great options to offer kids and how to encourage them to eat them

14:00- Pulling apart meals and being able to offer kids at least one thing that they like per meal

20:15- Allowing your kids to have a say in meals that are being made a couple of times a week

21:55- Alex’s plant-based program that she recently created

23:30- Language around food and talking to our kids in the kitchen

26:55- Her favorite ways to involve her children in cooking

29:10- Introducing foods to kids that are picky eaters and understanding when they don’t like a certain food

32:50- Adding healthy foods to meals and explaining it to your kids rather than sneaking it in without them knowing

38:45- How picky eating is common at certain ages and allowing kids to grow out of it

40:35- Introducing kids to peanuts to avoid peanut allergies

45:25- Supplements to give kids that eat plant based

49:00- Eating seasonally

54:15- Recent books that Alex has been reading

Show Notes: 

Delish Knowledge

Plant Based Juniors

Lentil Taco Recipe

Tofu Nuggets

FREE Supplement Guide

FREE Protein Guide

You can use the code “Lindsey” for 15% off all Plant Based Juniors Ebooks!

Alex’s Book Recommendation:

The Immoralists – Chloe Benjamin

All Adults Here – Emma Straub

Jenna Bush Hager Book Club

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Jeena Wilder is the mother of four, an adoption advocate and a new homeschooling mom. She gave up the virtual learning thing and just went full on homeschool on her own! I bow down.

Her and her husband have three biological children and one child through a kinship adoption. We get to hear about how their family came to be and what it looks like to be a multi-racial family. Jeena and her husband always knew they wanted to adopt but just weren’t sure how it would come about.

In this episode we discuss how to talk to your kids about race and why it’s important to start early. Jeena also shares about learning with her kids and how she feels that is a really key piece of how she parents.

What we talked about:

3:00- Jeena’s decision to homeschool her kids

12:15- Introduction to Jeena and her family and the process of adoption

18:00- Jeena shares about having a multiracial family

21:30- Talking to your kids about race

27:00- A teaching moment that she had recently with her children labeling themselves by their race when playing princesses

34:35- The meaning behind her children’s nicknames

38:50- Jeena’s experience with going to therapy with her daughter

46:05- Her thoughts on not always knowing all of the answers and teaching her kids that it is okay to not always know everything

51:05- End of podcast questions

Show Notes:

Motherhood so White

The Treehouse Series

Disney Princess Subscription Books

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