Your Parenting Mojo - Respectful, research-based parenting ideas to help kids thrive
SYPM 010: From Anxious Overwhelm to Optimistic Calm
24 min•13 december 2020
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In this Sharing Your Parenting Mojo episode we hear from listener Anne, who has been in my Parenting Membership for a year now. In our conversation we discussed the anxiety she used to feel about every aspect of parenting, including the things she wanted to teach her son to do (Spanish! Coding!) and how she interacted with both him and with her husband.
She actually joined the Parenting Membership to learn how to become the perfect parent, and I'm sorry to say that I failed as her teacher/guide in that regard. She is not a perfect parent (and neither am I), but she is now a perfectly good enough parent, and has been able to relax into her relationship with her son because of that.
I hope you enjoy this raw, vulnerable conversation where Anne reflects on the changes she has made in her life over the last year.
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03:44 Introduction to the episode and guest Anne
04:55 The values Anne wanted to build her parenting around
06:00 Why Anne joined the membership: wanting to be the "perfect parent"
08:08 The tipping point: anxiety, exhaustion, and what it was costing her
12:36 Standing up to her mother about a comment for the first time
15:36 A breakthrough during a three-week visit: naming childhood trauma around toys
18:38 Letting go of "perfect parent" pressure and reconnecting with her son
21:36 Anne's one piece of wisdom: change ripples outward from yourselfFler avsnitt
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