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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:

120: The Mother Load. With Meredith Ethington Nov 16, 2023

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Ever wondered about the silent mental load parenthood brings? Listen in as my guest shares her personal and professional aspects of this transformative journey.

Click here for show notes and more from Jeanne-Marie, your parenting mentor. Becoming a parent is a life-changing event, yet little is shared about the overwhelming mental load it entails. Today, my guest shared her personal and professional views on the mental health concerns parents have. What We Talked About:

Meredith's New Book 'The Mother Load'
The mental load in parenting
How can new parents prevent the feeling of being overwhelmed
Breaking down the stigma around talking about the hard part of parenting
What our parents tell us in our parenting
What is 'Toxic Positivity'

Things to Remember:

"Parenting is figuring out how to adjust your parenting strategies and methods with lots of different personalities."

"We need to prioritize self-care and not call things 'self-care' that aren't."

"I think a lot of times we get overwhelmed because we have such high expectations or we're trying so hard to get everything right."

"Keep trusting your gut, you're doing a good job."

"We're all struggling, no one's doing it perfectly, and what people need is some empathy and connection."

"There's no such thing as a perfect parent, and it's okay to just be you."

- Meredith Ethington

Click here for show notes and more from Jeanne-Marie, your parenting mentor.

119: Bringing Therapy Outdoors. With Dr. Laura Park Figueroa Nov 13, 2023

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Do you spend time in nature with your child? Listen in to discover why it is so important for you and your child. Click here for show notes and more from Jeanne-Marie, Your Parenting Mentor. Nature has always been my most dedicated therapist; when I'm feeling out of sorts, a walk outside will often help restore my calm. Today, my guest and I talked about bringing therapy outdoors. What We Talked About:

What exactly does an occupational therapist do
Why did Laura decide to take her practice outdoors
What are the challenges and advantages of being in nature vs. being indoors when treating children
The "Just Right Challenge"
When should you see an Occupational Therapist

Things to Remember:

"Nature often offers challenges that are beyond our comfort level."

"Nature-based therapy can happen anywhere."

"All of us exist in this continual context of nature."

"Kids can do hard things, we can do hard things, and that's really what helps us to grow and change."

"Problems fester when they're not brought to life."

― Dr. Laura Park Figueroa

"There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing." ― Alfred Wainwright

"Nature is a guide that teaches children how to move about.' ― Dr. Maria Montessori

"When we spend time outside in beautiful places, a part of our brain called the subgenual prefrontal cortex, quiets down, and this is part of the brain that is associated with negative self-reported rumination" ― Florence Williams

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118: Coping Skills For All. With Janine Halloran Nov 09, 2023

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Do you sometimes feel at a loss on how to help your child with their emotions? Listen in to get some important pointers.

Click here for show notes and more from Jeanne-Marie, Your Parenting Mentor. Identifying our emotions and learning how to cope with them is essential to our overall well-being. Teaching these skills to our children is my guest's expertise.

What We Talked About:

The importance of identifying emotions
Her approach to teaching coping skills to children
Ways to process children's anger and frustration
The healthy passive and active use of the digital world

Things to Remember:

"Parenting is the balance between being able to teach and connect and redirect when needed."

"When you can identify what you feel, it's automatically easier to self-regulate."

"Teach in the moments of calm."

"Resting is essential. It's a part of the things that we need to do to continue to do the work we're doing."

- Janine Halloran

"When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary." - Fred Rogers

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117: World View Parenting. With Kayla Tychsen Nov 06, 2023

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Ever wonder what it takes to be a world-schooling family? Listen in to find out how my guest navigates it with her family. Click here for show notes and more from Jeanne-Marie, Your Parenting Mentor.

Current Event Update: this episode was recorded earlier this year before Kayla had to leave her home to keep her family safe.

Every once in a while, I get to meet an Insta-friend in person. Meeting and learning about World View Parenting and all the adventures Kayla and her family have chosen to experience was delightful.

Her desire for her daughters to be honored and respected is very inspiring. Listen in as she shares what she looked for when choosing a school for them while living abroad.

We Talked About…

Her desire to share her experiences
Raising world citizens
The importance of doing self-healing work to raise your children
World schooling and traveling with young children
How to raise children with a worldview awareness
Her priorities when choosing a school for her children

Things to Remember:

"As my child grew, I realized that I had to learn to look inward and not just outward to the needs of my child."

"Our children can be our inspiration for becoming better versions of ourselves."

"My children are absorbing me."

"Start digging into the process of healing."

"Take the pressure off of doing things perfectly or trying to have it all figured out."

"Have conversations in your home about other cultures and other countries."

- Kayla Tychsen

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116: Digital Detox for the Soul. With Jeanne-Marie Paynel Nov 02, 2023

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Do you ever feel the urge to turn everything off? Listen in as I share my 60 day digital detox for the soul.

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Caring for the soul and nervous system by allowing myself to have a 60 day digital detox. I thought it is appropriate to re-introduce myself and share with you what to expect for the next few months. Always good to connect with you. What I Talked About:

Who is Jeanne-Marie today?
Here to support you in preparing your home for your child's needs
What is and what I Like about being a Birth Doula
Why it is important to take a break from our digital world
When you have adult children quality time with them is extremely special

Things to Remember:

"Birth is a beautiful, natural period of life."

"We need to adapt our home for our children's needs."

"It's flabbergasting how connected we are to our devices and we feel the need to always be looking at them."

"Keep on parenting and being the best parent you can be and know that support is available when you need it."

- Jeanne-Marie Paynel

"Help me to do it myself." - Dr. Maria Montessori

"Just as a woman's heart knows how to pump, her lungs to fill with air, and her hand to pull back from fire, so her body knows how to birth." - Virginia Di Orio

"Take a break from the noise of social media and listen to the whispers of your own soul." - Deepak Chopra

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115: Calm the Chaos. With Dayna Abraham Aug 10, 2023

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Are you frustrated that your child is being made to fit in a box they do not fit in? Listen in to Dayna as she shares her personal experience and all the helpful strategies she has developed to help us go from surviving to thriving.

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What a delight to finally speak with Dayna. She has a wealth of information and personal stories on how to go from surviving to thriving as a parent and family. Her book, which will help us Calm the Chaos comes out this week.

What We Talked About:

What made her do a 360º to help her and her family
Creating what she was missing to support her neurodivergent child
Her framework helps us find our calm in challenging times
How to peacefully navigate all the stages of your child's development
Her book Calm the Chaos is being released this week

Things to Remember:

"Parenting is finding and navigating your way through the peaks and valleys with your children."

"When children don't feel like they fit in when they feel like they're broken, when they feel like they're bad or something's wrong with them, that's when we see more challenging behaviors."

"Raise children and acknowledge who they are."

"Instead of jumping into the strategies and tactics to take care of whatever challenge you're having with your kid, you must first take care of yourself."

"Start actually creating solutions with your children."

- Dayna Abraham

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114: Focus on the Journey. With Dr. Claire Rubman Aug 03, 2023

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Do you struggle with your child enjoying reading? My guest today shares her wisdom on how we can help our children be good readers and learn from reading.

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Reading is a complex task, and knowing how our child's brain works will help you make reading fun, enjoyable, and part of everyday life. My guest today shares her many years of experience and research on the topic of reading comprehension.

What We Talked About:

How can we encourage lifelong readers and learners
The importance of letting our children be bored
Why she felt the need to write her book and share the research
Our undivided attention is extremely beneficial to our children's development
The way our child's brain works to process information.
Ideas of how to make reading part of everyday life and not only bedtime
The importance of hands-on activities as opposed to passive screen time.

Things to Remember:

"We can parent better when we know how our children's cognitive process works."

"In the primary grades, we learn to read and then later on, we read to learn."

"The Journey is the most important part, not necessarily the end goal."

"Television is a passive activity."

"Boredom is the beginning of creativity."

"Let your children lead and learn to follow."

"Enjoy the child you have, not the child you wish you had."

- Dr. Claire Rubman

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113: The Parenting Translator. With Dr. Cara Goodwin Jul 27, 2023

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Would you like to have a translator to make sense of all the parenting advice out there? Listen in to find out what some of the research is saying.

The information we have access to can be overwhelming at times. How can we really process it all? My guest today does just that, she translates it all for us.

What We Talked About:

Finding reliable science-backed resources for parents
Did the global Pandemic affect our children's cognitive and emotional development
How parents can help their children affected with PTSD
How accommodating our children's fear is doing them a disservice
What the research is saying about screen time for our young children
Toilet and sleep training

Things to Remember:

"Parenting is the art of combining multiple sources of information and choosing what is best for your individual child and family."

"Sometimes research can be misinterpreted."

"The most effective for anxiety is validating their feelings and pushing them to face their fears and challenge themselves."

"We don't want our children to live a life with absolutely no anxiety. That's not the real world."

"We do know that screen time is correlated with a lot of negative child outcomes."

"High-quality interactions between a child and a caregiver is better for a child's learning and development than screen time."

"Parent's mental health has a huge impact on children's well-being."

- Dr. Cara Goodwin

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112: Kids Eat in Color. With Jennifer Anderson Jul 20, 2023

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Do you struggle with what your child will and will not eat? Listen in to find solutions for a healthy diet for the entire family.

Today I'll eat just about anything, but it wasn't always this way. I know how stressful it can be for parents when their children want nothing with the food they have prepared. Today a kind compassionate and knowledgeable registered dietitian shares how we can best support our children with healthy eating habits.

What We Talked About:

Why Jennifer started Kids Eat in Color
What are some red flags regarding our children's eating habits to watch out for?
Techniques to make your child feel empowered at the dinner table
What are the characteristics of extremely picky eaters
The food disparity in the USA
The new weight guidelines for children from the American Academy of Pediatrics

Things to Remember:

"Picky eating has many different causes."

"Once a child knows that they're not going to be pressured and can truly relax at the table, they can branch out. "

"Just providing safe food is not going to be enough but a starting point."

"Every person should be able to have access to food, and they should be able to have access to a balanced diet."

"We don't need to focus on weight."

- Jennifer Anderson

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111: Raising Resilience. With Sara Olsher Jul 13, 2023

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When life gives us some difficult situations, whether divorce or a cancer diagnosis, how can we best explain it to our children? Sara used her creative and psychology background to do just that and has developed fabulous resources for all of us, whether dealing with simple or complex situations and raising resilience along the way.

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Have you had to explain a difficult situation to your young children? Listen in to find what one mother created to help us all.

What We Talked About:

What brought her to create what she needed but could not find
The importance of predictability for children's mental health
Parents need better tools to teach social and emotional skills
Why it is important to talk about hard situations with our children
Some of Sara's discoveries as she did her research for her books and resources
What exactly are Protective Factors when it comes to Mental Health

Things to Remember:

"Parenting means you have to be willing to get creative, make mistakes and make beauty out of all the mess ups that you make."

"Kids understand way more than we give them credit for."

"Grief happens when anything is taken away without your consent."

"Change is grief for kids."

"You cannot get through life today without having some coping skills."

"You don't have to be perfect to be awesome."

- Sara Olsher

"Children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance." - Ishmael Beah

"Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits." - Rhea Perlman

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