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The Art of Parenting

The Art of Parenting provides parents and caregivers support and encouragement as we nurture and guide the next generation.

Do you struggle with your child’s demanding or frustrating behaviors? Do you find yourself spread way too thin trying to figure out this whole “parenting puzzle” (such as tantrums, hitting or biting, wanting a better relationship with your child, sibling rivalry, potty training, co-sleeping, etc.)?

The Art of Parenting podcast, with your host Jeanne-Marie Paynel, is intended to help you decipher children’s needs and learn how to better provide for them. I’ll be sharing simple tips and tricks that will make a huge difference in your home while giving you the support and encouragement you deserve to enhance and enrich your parenting experience.

Each week I’ll be helping you find clarity and solutions to your toughest parenting problems through Q&A sessions and inspirational conversations with world-renowned experts in a variety of fields. Topics range from Montessori and RIE parenting methods to positive discipline, respectful and conscious parenting, minimalism and more!

Parenting was never meant to be done alone and The Art of Parenting is here to debunk the general consensus that it has to be hard.

Latest Episodes:

90: Liberated Parenting. With Yolanda Williams Feb 16, 2023

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How are you creating or finding community to support your parenting efforts? Listen in to find what my guest suggests and is doing herself.

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I'm always seeking to learn and improve myself as a human being and this conversation about Liberated Parenting helped me do just that. Learning from others' experiences and points of view is critical in liberating ourselves from harmful and oppressive systems that are still prevalent today.

What We Talked About:

Being a Black conscious parent living in the United States today
What does it mean to be culturally responsive?
CRT; Critical Race Theory explained
Getting away from operating from fear
The importance of healing and learning from our past
Being willing to ask hard questions
Finding and building community
Insidious racism that exists today
Hope and joy as we usher in the next generation

Things to Remember:

"We have a lot of unhealed childhood trauma and in order to be the best parents we can be we have to deal with it."

"If black children are free, then everyone is free."

"Everyone exists, not just black people. There's so many different beautiful ethnicities and cultures that all deserve to be celebrated."

"Joy, love, and patience with one another is what's missing in the world. It's being overshadowed by fear."

"We have to look at how the past is impacting the present."

"Reduce the shame of asking for help."

Yolanda Williams

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." – Audre Lorde

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." – Albert Camus

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89: Tending to the Whole Child. With Dr. Lori Baudino Feb 09, 2023

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Do you ever wonder what your child's gestures and movements mean about their mental health? Listen in and find how you can predict their needs using movement.

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It's music to my ears when an expert talks about the 'whole child'. Today we explore the importance of movement and how we can guide, support and predict our children's needs by observing their movement.

What We Talked About

Understanding how movement therapy can help us and our children integrate many emotions
Observing how our child moves and interacts with others
How parents can use simple movements or dance to connect with their children
Educating our children about their 3 brains, head, heart, and gut
Understanding the polyvagal theory and the function of the vagus nerve
We are naturally feeling moving beings

Things to Remember

"Movement is always happening and it's always available. We might not be able to move with big jumping motions but we can always move."

"We have 3 brains: The one in your head, the one in your heart, and the one in your gut."

"Find an opportunity to really connect with your child not only through words but with your whole mind, body, spirit."

– Dr. Lori Baudino

"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." – Carol Welch

"Movement is the essence of life." – Bernd Heinrich

"The body says what words cannot." – Martha Graham

"The child has an instinct to coordinate his movements and to bring them under control."

"Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements."

– Dr. Maria Montessori

"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." – Alfred Adler

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88: Shame-Proof Parenting. With Mercedes Samudio Feb 02, 2023

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Do you want to learn how to heal your own traumas to better parent? Listen in to learn about the shame-proofing framework and how to trust the great guide that is within you.

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What We Talked About:

The framework of Shame-Proof Parenting that she has developed
How she helps parents heal from their personal shame stories
What is the Parental Identity Development Model and how to make sense of your own parenting journey
How grief shows up in our parenting

Things to Remember:

"Many of us come into the parenting world with shame stories already created."

"The parent of a toddler's main task is to figure out how to accept themselves."

"I am the child of the parent I want to help."

"It is never too late to make a change in your parenting, once you decide."

"No matter what you decide to do with your kids, you're going to grieve."

"Once you become a parent, you can never go back to not being a parent."

– Mercedes Samudio

"If your children fear you, they cannot trust you. If they do not trust you, they cannot learn from you." – Lori Petro

"Children behave best when they feel most loved. Shame isn't a strategy to encourage good behavior; it leads to compliance and then to rebellion." – Sarah Boyd

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87: Forget Me Not. With Olivier Bernier Jan 26, 2023

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Wondering how to make education more inclusive? Listen in to find out how this father is using his talent to make a difference for all children,

Today I'm excited to have the first father on the show, Olivier, a fabulous visual storyteller who shares with us the journey of being his child's advocate in a segregated school system in his documentary film Forget Me Not.

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What We Talked About:

Becoming a parent of a child with down syndrome
What it means to be your child's advocate
What is inclusive education and what we can all do about it
What does IEP mean
Getting advocates to help you on this journey is crucial

Things to Remember:

"Every child has their challenges."

"All I want for my son is for him to have a full life and have the opportunity to be the best version of himself."

"It's so hard to be objective when it's your own child."

"It's not doom and gloom, take it moment by moment and you'll figure it out together."

"You just cannot put expectations on your child for what they are going to be."

"What you're seeing in an inclusive classroom is a mirror of what society should be. You're seeing children that don't see differences, they see each other for who they are."

- Olivier Bernier

"There is no greater disability in society than the inability to see a person as more." - Robert M. Hensel

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86: Observe with Love. With Jeanne-Marie Paynel Jan 19, 2023

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Do you ever wonder what is meant "to be a scientific observer"? Listen in to find out why observation is so important in nurturing our child's potential.

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I've often been asked to explain the significance of being a 'scientific observer'. Today I'm answering this important question.

What I Talked About:

What is observation
How to be a scientific observer
What to Observe
Observing ourselves, the environment, and our children

Things to Remember:

"Observation is a perpetual mindfulness practice using all of our senses." - Jeanne-Marie Paynel

"Do less, observe more, enjoy most." - Magda Gerber

"The most important is to respect all reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them."

"An observer obviously needs something to observe and he must be trained in order to be able to see and recognize objective truth, he must also have at his disposal children placed in such an environment that they can manifest their natural traits."

"There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life. He does it in virtue of an unconscious power that exists in childhood…"

"When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing"

"Even when helping and serving the children, she (the teacher) must not cease to observe them, because the birth of concentration in a child is as delicate a phenomenon as the bursting of a bud into bloom."

- Dr. Maria Montessori

"Observe first. Wait a second. Then act only if you have to." - Dr. Silvia Dubovoy

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85: Being a Pleasure Positive Parent. With Tilly Storm Jan 12, 2023

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Do you struggle to find time and energy for intimate pleasure while parenting? Listen in to find out how to get your mojo back.

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Reconnecting with our partner after birth can sometimes be difficult, Tilly walks us through what it means to be a pleasure-positive parent, and partner plus the importance of listening to our own needs and desires.

What We Talked About:

How our birth experience can affect our sexuality as a new parent
How to get our mojo back
The importance of prioritizing your intimate relationship
How to be a pleasure-positive parent
How our body holds so much wisdom and how to listen to it
What she did do instead of keeping her children in traditional school during the pandemic
Why she chose to look for a Montessori high school

Things to Remember:

"First, do the work yourself because when you do it for you, you avoid passing it on to your children unconsciously."

"Birth Trauma is real."

"You can't expect sex and relationships to just go along without putting any time, energy or effort into them. They are learned skills."

"Pornography is the worst way that your kid could ever learn anything about their sexuality."

"Do not lose yourself. Maintain your own identity apart from your children."

- Tilly Storm

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84: Embodied Parenting. With Charlotte Awdry Jan 05, 2023

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How have you evolved as a parent or educator in comparison to how you were raised?

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You know the feeling when you meet someone and know that you have so much in common. Well, that is exactly what happened with my first guest of 2023. We met on Zoom in August 2020 and became fast friends. Listen in as she shares her passion for embodied parenting and Montessori education.

What We Talked About:

Our own rebirths when we become parents
How our parenting is always evolving based on how we were raised
How to honor the unfolding of our children's essence.
The misconceptions and illusions we have about Montessori education and parenting
The gift of working with a diverse population

Things to Remember:

"Can we block out the noise to hear ourselves, hear our heart, and trust in our child's innate goodness?"

"Parenting, it's the toughest job in the world with no training."

"The more we understand our children, the more we understand ourselves."

"We have all the wisdom we need inside of ourselves and we must honor that."

- Charlotte Awdry

"Parenting is our opportunity to evolve." - Jeanne-Marie Paynel

"Believe in your children and they will believe in themselves too." - Vicki Reece

"The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him." - Dr. Maria Montessori

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83: Looking Back to Move Forward. With Jeanne-Marie Paynel Dec 29, 2022

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How do you wrap up your calendar year? Do you even bother? Listen in as I review a bit of 2022.

I do love good end-of-year planning and to do it well it's important to look back to take stock of what has been. Join me in this last episode of 2022 as I go down memory lane to better plan 2023. I also want to know who you want to hear from in 2023.

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What I Talked About:

Reviewing the year; personal, podcast, and projects
Defining what a doula does and my volunteer experience being one
The Parenting School and how you can join in 2023
Finding an accountability group
So grateful to be able to celebrate my father's 90th
A Montessori pilgrimage of the soul, while in Italy
Proud of my children's adventures and accomplishments
Always trying something new to keep learning
Why it's a good idea to have a digital detox every once in a while

Things to Remember:

"The Art of Parenting is for you, the parents and caregivers of the next generation." - Jeanne-Marie Paynel

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a goin on." - Hal Borland

"When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world. Sometimes you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down." - Michelle Obama

"In order to move forward, you have to look back." - Matt Maher

"You just need to have the courage to eliminate everything that doesn't directly feed what you really want." - James Clear

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82: Raising Humans with Heart. With Sarah MacLaughlin Dec 22, 2022

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Are you wanting to parent differently than how you were parented? Listen in as my guest and I discuss the inevitable evolution of the art of parenting.

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I first met Sarah a few years back when she was a guest on the Be the Best Parent You Can Be interview series. She has since written another wonderful parenting book Raising Humans with Heart and had so many wonderful nuggets of wisdom to share. Enjoy!

What We Talked About:

What are developmentally appropriate expectations
When can we expect children to share voluntarily
Emotional competence and how to help your children be competent
Why having a village is important for both caregivers and children

Things to Remember:

"Sharing is overrated."

"All feelings are welcomed. All feelings are acceptable."

"Redirection will lose its steam if we never allow the child to have their feelings."

– Sarah MacLaughlin

"It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."

"When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it's our job to share our calm, not join their chaos." – L.R. Knost

– L.R. Knost

"Our parenting is not decided in moments of failure, but in the ways, we choose to learn from those failures and change our future responses." – Dr. David Erickson

"Parenting is a most difficult job for which you cannot really prepare yourself." – Magda Gerber

Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within. – Dr. Gabor Mate

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." – Maya Angelou.

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81: Dealing with Concerning Behavior. With Kim Hopkins Dec 15, 2022

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Are you wanting a deeper understanding of your child's concerning behavior and how to help them do better? Listen in to learn a profound process to get them there. It's time to let go of antiquated forms of discipline such as restraining, secluding, or paddling children, and today my guest shares exactly what to do instead.

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What We Talked About:

Helping children solve problems that might be causing challenging behavior
Advocating for doing away with punitive methods of discipline such as restraining, seclusion, and paddling
The 3 step process of Collaborative and Proactive Solutions developed by Dr. Greene
A few of the skill deficits that our children need support developing

Things to Remember:

"When we view kids with an accurate compassionate lens, we are able to create interventions that actually work and work long-term."

"Children do well, if they can."

"Nothing good happens in the heat of the moment."

"Children are not lacking motivation, they already want to do well."

"Fantastic things happen when we work proactively with our children."

― Kim Hopkins

"Power causes conflict...collaboration brings people together."

"Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they're lacking the skills to not be challenging."

― Ross W. Greene, Ph.D.

"When we invite children to problem solve, we are teaching them a life skill and nurturing the perception that they are capable." ― Jane Nelsen

"Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." ― Roger Lewin

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