Learn the wrong way to teach lessons to kids (with a hilarious Arrested Development example), and then learn some helpful tips for better lessons!
Stop Moralizing Your Child’s Emotions
Our children deserve to be loved as they are, and they deserve to have the emotions and feelings they have. It’s a simple enough concept, but it’s not so simple to put into practice, it turns out. As parents, we come with our own set of preconceived ideas, and it’s challenging to meet our kids where they are.
This episode offers two ways to handle the parts of our children that challenge us. And it starts with my ridiculous quest to get my child to like speed bumps. (Face palm. You just have to listen.)
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Witches and Parenting – and How to Stop Yelling
My family and I recently traveled to Salem, Massachusetts and learned about the witch trials. While there, we also learned a bit about modern-day witchcraft. Unsurprisingly, we learned that many stereotypes are false. I’m not an authority on witchcraft, but what I learned about it was actually similar to what most people I know believe. Yes, probably even
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What Advice Would You Give to New Parents?
What is the best piece of advice you could give to new parents?
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How to Have Realistic Expectations of Your Kids
Your kids are going to mess up. That’s a given. So how do you know how to hold the right expectations for each kid? Unfortunately, there’s no magic formula, but the mindset discussed here will help you make the best decisions for your child, your family, and your circumstances. Learn 7 positive results and forward movements you can gain when you adopt this helpful mindset.
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How to Put on an Interactive Movie with Your Family
What’s an interactive move with your family? It’s a fantastic, fun, unique, and connected way to do family movie night! You’re going to want to try this as soon as you can! The interactive movie was introduced to us by my sister-in-law, who went to a five-senses film screening at the Utah Film Festival. She
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You Should Use Hugs in Your Discipline — Here’s How
Why you should use hugs in your discipline — liberally
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When Parenting Is Painful
We’ve all felt like we’re terrible at parenting. Or ruining our children, or we ruined them already and there’s no going back. We’ve all felt overcome and overwhelmed. Here are a few thoughts on how to reframe things when you’re in this place, as well as some proactive steps you can take to move yourself through this place of parenting pain and out the other side to a place where you feel a bit better.
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A Power We Overlook in Parenting
Podcast Transcript #18: A Power We Overlook in Parenting Hello, and welcome to Pause and Connect. I’m Rebecca Brown Wright, and this is episode 18: A Power We Overlook in Parenting. This power might take you by surprise. It’s a little unusual to consider it a power, but it definitely is a power that can
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“Devastating” Truths in Childhood
When children are disappointed, our response is critical. We can drag their disappointment even further down, or we can uplift and love.
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