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023: ‘Raising Helpful Kids: Navigating Chores’ with Sarah Rosensweet Nov 10, 2021

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“How do I get my kids to help out with chores?” This is a common question that I get from parents across my community, so I thought I would do an episode with some tips and tricks to help you encourage your kids to want to help out more around the house.

I share my top strategies and what has worked well for my family over the years. The information I’m sharing today is tried and true, and will serve as a stepping stone to your journey with chores!

“Should I give your kids specific jobs?” or “What do I do if they refuse?” This episode covers these questions and so much more.

If you like what you hear, be sure to share the episode with someone you know needs to hear it.

Listen in as we talk about:

The main strategies to encouraging your kids to help with chores
Tips to motivate our kids to want to pitch in and help out
Why empowerment is a key tool
How to avoid power struggles in asking our kids for help with chores
Giving yourself appreciation when it feels like your child is unappreciative of your help

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022: Understanding ADHD with Dr. Sharon Saline Nov 03, 2021

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What do we do when our child gets an ADHD diagnosis? How do we best support a child with ADHD? As a mom of a child with ADHD, as you’ll hear in this episode, getting a diagnosis was relief and fear of the unknown all wrapped into one.

In this week’s episode, I speak with Dr. Sharon Saline, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD solution card deck.

Dr. Sharon specializes in working with children, teens, young adults and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, high-functioning autism and mental health issues.

Her unique perspective comes from being a sibling in an ADHD home, combined with decades of experience as a clinical psychologist and educator/clinician consultant. This helps her in guiding families and adults towards effective communication and closer connections.

Listen in as we talk about:

What is ADHD?
The three types of ADHD
How to help our kids build working memory
Why understanding extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation is important
Dr. Sharon’s 5 C’s of ADHD parenting approach
What makes kids with ADHD extra special

Resources mentioned in this episode

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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sarahrosensweet.substack.com/subscribe

021: Coaching Call with Erin: The Challenges of Parenting A Sensitive Child Oct 27, 2021

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This week’s episode is a coaching call with Erin, mom of two girls, nine year old Callan and seven year old Nora.

Erin has been experiencing self-doubt in parenting her oldest daughter, who is incredibly sensitive and whose Worry Brain takes over in stressful situations.

I give Erin actionable tips and strategies that she can use to help Callan find more calm and trust from within. Be sure to listen to the end to hear how the strategies were implemented!

We talk about:

Reassuring your sensitive kids

What to do when one sibling feels like the other “has it easier”

How to navigate feeling like you aren’t doing enough as a parent
Tips to make sure our kids’ needs are being met

Resources mentioned in this episode

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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sarahrosensweet.substack.com/subscribe

020: Reparenting Ourselves: Being the Parents We Want To Be with Leslie Priscilla Oct 20, 2021

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How do we reparent ourselves, and what does it even mean to begin with?

In this week’s episode, I speak with Leslie Priscilla, a first generation non-Black Xicana with Rarámuri lineage. She is a mother to three biracial children and a certified Parent Coach with over 13 years of experience.

She shares with us her knowledge and insight on reparenting our own inner child so that we can show up and be the parents we’ve always wanted to be.

Listen in as we talk about:

The changes she’s making to parenting in LatinX culture

What reparenting is and why our own healing is important
Why reparenting ourselves can feel uncomfortable and disrespectful in relation to how we were raised
The importance of self-compassion and tips to visualizing it
How to break patterns of anger

Leslie shares her medicine by offering coaching, workshops, support and advocacy for Latinx/Chicanx families locally, nationally and internationally via Latinx Parenting. Leslie’s vision is of a movement rooted in children's rights, social and racial justice, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and ancestral healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive practices in our families towards liberation.

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019: When Your Partner Is Not On Board with Peaceful Parenting with Sarah Rosensweet Oct 13, 2021

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This week’s episode is a solo episode with me. I share strategies you can use if your partner is not onboard with peaceful parenting.

What I’ve learned in my own peaceful parenting journey is that our partner’s resistance can oftentimes come from fear. Fear that you think they’re a bad parent, or fear that the kids won’t turn out well.

Listen in as we talk about:

How to encourage peaceful parenting without shaming your partner
The three big ideas to help your partner consider peaceful parenting
How peaceful parenting tools can help you build connection with your partner
Two tips for intervening when your partner is having a hard time parenting

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Peaceful Partners Cheatsheet

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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sarahrosensweet.substack.com/subscribe

018: Coaching Call with Ray: After You Stop Yelling… Then What?! Oct 06, 2021

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This week’s episode is a coaching call with Ray, dad of two girls: a six-year-old and one-year-old.

Ray shares his challenges with us about regulating his own big feelings when he’s feeling overwhelmed by noise or arguing between his daughters, as well as how to set limits when you’ve stopped yelling (mostly!)

We talk about actionable strategies and tips that Ray can incorporate into his daily routine, as well as talk about:

Why yelling hurts our kids more than we know

How to intervene with your kids in a kind way

Tips to repair the relationship with your child after crossing a yelling boundary
Ways to encourage fun, playfulness and genuine laughter

Resources mentioned in this episode

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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sarahrosensweet.substack.com/subscribe

017: Sensory Processing Challenges/Disorder with Dayna Abraham Sep 29, 2021

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Sometimes our kids have challenges that can’t be fully addressed with peaceful parenting. Sensory processing challenges/disorder can cause challenging behaviour if you’re not aware of what’s going on.

In this week’s episode, I speak with Dayna Abraham. She helps us understand what sensory processing challenges are and what we can do to help our children. Dayna is the founder of the Calm the Chaos® Framework, best-selling author of The Superkids Activity Guide to Conquering Every Day and founder of the popular blog, Lemon Lime Adventures.

Dayna helps parents and education professionals unlock the unique super powers in children so they can live a more peaceful life filled with clarity, connection and empowerment by providing them with a proven plan designed to Calm the Chaos® of everyday life.

Listen in as we talk about:

How Dayna came into this work through the challenges her son faced at school

What our 8 main senses are

Examples of “bad” behaviours that may actually be sensory processing challenges
What to do when you notice your child having sensory processing challenges
Are sensory processing challenges more common than they used to be?

When she’s not writing, you can find her drinking lots of coffee and being the best sidekick possible for her own three Superkids.

Resources mentioned in this episode

Get Your Free Sensory Poster Pack

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016: “If You Forget Everything Else, Remember This ONE Thing -- Empathy” with Sarah Rosensweet Sep 22, 2021

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This week’s episode is a solo episode with me and we talk about empathy.

If you know me or have been following my peaceful parenting techniques for a while, you will know that I always come back to empathy. It’s so important for our kids to feel genuinely heard and understood by us.

Listen in as we talk about:

Does empathy make our kids weak?
Why empathy is important
How to empathize, especially when it’s hard
Why we can be fearful to show empathy
The reasons why our kids might want us to stop showing empathy

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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sarahrosensweet.substack.com/subscribe

015: Coaching Call with Keri: Strong-Willed Kids and Power Struggles Sep 15, 2021

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This week’s episode is a coaching call with Keri, mom of a 5 year old and 3 year old, with one more on the way.

Keri has been having a hard time getting her strong-willed 5 year old to cooperate. They often found themselves in ugly power struggles! We discuss actionable strategies that you can use to transform the conversation and avoid power struggles altogether.

Listen in as we talk about:

Why our strong-willed kids fight for control

An overview of the three big ideas of a strong-willed child
The importance of pausing before setting a limit
Power games to help our kids feel powerful and in control
What to do when your strong-willed kid doesn’t want to go along with ‘play’

Resources mentioned in this episode

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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sarahrosensweet.substack.com/subscribe

014: Decolonizing Parenting and Raising Anti-Racist Children with Yolanda Williams Sep 08, 2021

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In this week’s episode, I speak with Yolanda Wiliams, the woman behind Parenting Decolonized.

As a single mom, racial justice educator, and Positive Discipline Coach, Yolanda empowers parents with tools to decolonize their mindsets and divest from white supremacy in order to raise the next generation of emotionally-well, liberated, free-thinkers and in the process, form deeper more intentional relationships with their children.

Listen in as we talk about:

What it means to decolonize parenting
How colonization shows up on a micro level in terms of parenting
Yolanda’s tips for anti-racist parenting
Why white supremacy hurts everybody
How white parents can have anti-racist conversations with their kids

She is unapologetically dedicated to serving the black parenting community, to celebrating the culture and beauty as often as she can, and to helping actors become accomplices in the fight for intersectional racial justice.

She started this work after having her first child at 37 years old and learning as much as she could about children and their brain development in 2017.

Resources from Yolanda

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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sarahrosensweet.substack.com/subscribe

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