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Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy

Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy

Stephanie Kennedy

Kids who get up and dressed in the morning by themselves, make their own lunches, empty the dishwasher, wash their own clothes, feed the pets AND make their own dinner?!? Is this a dream or could it possibly become your REALITY?!? Stephanie is a mom of four, a former high school math and science teacher, the owner of 2 business and the founder of the #lazyparenting community. On this podcast she digs deep into the concept and strategies behind lazy parenting to help you raise happy, joyful, kind, empathetic and passionate adults who, above all else, are good humans.
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Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy - 73. Proactive vs reactive parenting and calming the chaos is your home.
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02/22/22 • 12 min

Confession time - I used to be a yeller. I yelled as a coach when I was a teen working with children and then I yelled as a parent at my kids. My temper has always gotten the best of me. So how did I end up with 4 kids and never having to raise my voice at them through their tweens and teens?

Well, I had to change from being a frustrated and reactive parent to being a positive and proactive one. I had to recognize that my childrens' misbehavior was ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS a way of them trying to tell me something. And, that is where we have to agree to begin. You have to agree that all your child's behavior is communication. If we can start there, we can work to end the yelling in your house too.

Thank you for hanging out with me today! I love these daily chats and hearing from you as to how they are helping. Don't forget to DM me on Instagram, come follow along on TikTok or send me an email.

Even better - you can leave me a voice memo HERE I want this to be a two-way conversation!

Also, if you loved today's episode, please help me out and click 5 stars and write a review!

Follow Lazy Parenting on IG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community of Facebook HERE

Follow Stephanie Kennedy on IG HERE

SIGN UP FOR THE LAZY PARENTING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER HERE

Be sure to send me a DM with any questions or struggles or just a "hi" over on IG! I look forward to hearing from you!

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Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy - 64. Do your kids KNOW that you love them? Part 1/4

64. Do your kids KNOW that you love them? Part 1/4

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02/08/22 • 6 min

Valentine's day is coming up next week and I thought I would take this opportunity to talk about love and our kids.

If I were to ask you if your child feels loved, I am sure you would say 'yes". But, how do you know this? Like, really, HOW do you know this?

This week I want to talk about the importance of our children REALLY understanding our love for them and I'm going to encourage you to do a deep dive and have a reality check on ourselves about how we are showing our kids that we love them.

The foundation for this series of episodes is based on Dr. Gary Chapman's book "The Five Love Languages of Children." CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

Today we talk about unconditional love and what that really means and looks like!

Thank you for hanging out with me today! I love these daily chats and hearing from you as to how they are helping. Don't forget to DM me on Instagram, come follow along on TikTok or send me an email. I want this to be a two-way conversation! Talk soon.

If you loved today's episode, please click 5 stars and write a review!

Follow Lazy Parenting on IG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community of Facebook HERE

Follow Stephanie Kennedy on IG HERE

SIGN UP FOR THE LAZY PARENTING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER HERE

Be sure to send me a DM with any questions or struggles or just a "hi" over on IG! I look forward to hearing from you!

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Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy - 63. Getting your kids to listen - BONUS TIPS

63. Getting your kids to listen - BONUS TIPS

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02/07/22 • 6 min

Wrapping up the series on "how to get your kids to listen to you" today with TWO bonus tips!

Thank you for hanging out with me today! I love these daily chats and hearing from you as to how they are helping. Don't forget to DM me on Instagram, come follow along on TikTok or send me an email. I want this to be a two-way conversation! Talk soon.

If you loved today's episode, please click 5 stars and write a review!

Follow Lazy Parenting on IG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community of Facebook HERE

Follow Stephanie Kennedy on IG HERE

SIGN UP FOR THE LAZY PARENTING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER HERE

Be sure to send me a DM with any questions or struggles or just a "hi" over on IG! I look forward to hearing from you!

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Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy - 47. "Asked & Answered"

47. "Asked & Answered"

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01/14/22 • 6 min

"Mom! Where's my jacket?

"In the dryer."

"Mom! Where's my jacket?"

"IN THE DRYER!"

"MOM! Where's my jacket?"

"Are you *#$*ing kidding me?!?!? IT'S IN THE DRYER!!!!"

All our kids are guilty of this...asking us the same darn question OVER AND OVER AGAIN! Today I share a phrase that can help end this FOREVER! Well, maybe not FOREVER...but it will definitely reduce this back and forth dramatically if you follow through with the strategy!

If you loved today's episode, please click 5 stars and write a review!

Join our #lazyparenting community on IG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community of FacebooK HERE

Follow Stephanie Kennedy on IG HERE

SIGN UP FOR THE LAZY PARENTING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER HERE

Be sure to send me a DM with any questions or struggles or just a "hi" over on IG! I look forward to hearing from you!

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Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy - 46. Why is your child misbehaving?

46. Why is your child misbehaving?

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01/13/22 • 8 min

Your child has temper tantrums, they have an emotional outburst that is disruptive or hurtful or destructive, they don't listen, they talk back, they argue with everything you ask of them....sound familiar?

We all have had these moments with our kids. This is normal. What is most important is, are we as parents, understanding what is BEHIND the behaviour? Or are we just trying to fix the behaviour?

If you loved today's episode, please click 5 stars and write a review!

Join our #lazyparenting community on IG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community of FacebooK HERE

Follow Stephanie Kennedy on IG HERE

SIGN UP FOR THE LAZY PARENTING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER HERE

Be sure to send me a DM with any questions or struggles or just a "hi" over on IG! I look forward to hearing from you!

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Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy - The most important parenting rule! |#29

The most important parenting rule! |#29

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11/19/20 • 19 min

Today’s podcast is an important one. I am going to share my number one parenting rule/tip/strategy for all parents, regardless of how old your children are. It is a tip that was shared with me long before I had kids and it stuck with me. Maybe my years of coaching and teaching helped give me some experience with this strategy before I had my own kids, but gosh kids are cute and their ability to get you to sway from this rule is sometimes downright magical...

This rule we are going to talk about today, this strategy/tip/rule is one that I believe to rank up there as one of the most important ones! It’s a rule that we all could use a refresher on. If you are like me, you likely slip a little bit once and a while and if you don’t catch it early on it can turn from a tiny snowball into an avalanche of whining, constant negotiations, yelling, screaming, anger and frustration.

The basis of this rule can be summed up in the following quote:

“People treat you only one way — the way you let them!”

Now think about your kids, how do they treat you? Do you have little ones who ask over and over again for something you’ve said no to until you finally say yes? Do they “ignore” you when you ask them to stop playing video games or watching TV to do something you’ve asked (for the zillionth time)? Do they roll their eyes at you when you ask how their day was? Do they use foul language or call you names, tell you they hate you?

If you answered yes to any of these things, I want you to take a moment and think about how you got to this place? How did you lose control and lose their respect? Because that’s what has happened. You have allowed your child to believe that THEY are in control and that they can have what they want when they want it. You have lost your position as the one who sets the expectations around the behavior in your house and I will venture to say that you have lost their respect.

Listen in today and learn the 4 steps to getting back on track and gaining the respect of your children. Change is possible and it can happen!

LINKS FROM TODAY'S EPISODE:

Visit the Lazy Parenting BLOG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community on IG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community of FacebooK HERE

Follow Stephanie Kennedy on IG HERE

SIGN UP FOR THE LAZY PARENTING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER HERE

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Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy - Turn your child’s behaviour around before 2021 | #26

Turn your child’s behaviour around before 2021 | #26

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10/28/20 • 35 min

SEASON 2!

7 months ago we thought that the craziness of a worldwide pandemic would be over in a few weeks, maybe a few months. The reality is that the world has changed in ways we never thought possible and our families and kids have been through a heck of a time. How are your kids doing? Are they more anxious, moodier, harder to handle? Is there more yelling, arguing, and stress in your household?

Well, we have 2 months before 2021 and a new year is upon us. NOW is the time to refocus and recommit to the parenting strategies that will help you turn your household around and get your children back on track. We all want a yell-free house right? We all want to go to bed happy and content that we did our very best for our children that day.

In today’s episode, I share 10 steps you can take TODAY that will help get your family and relationship with your kids back on track so that 2021 is better than today. I promise, that if you follow the steps outlined that you will see a dramatic improvement in your child’s behavior.

LINKS FROM TODAY'S EPISODE:

Visit the Lazy Parenting BLOG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community on IG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community of FacebooK HERE

Follow Stephanie Kennedy on IG HERE

SIGN UP FOR THE LAZY PARENTING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER HERE

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Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy - 5 Things Week One of This Crisis Has Taught me |#16

5 Things Week One of This Crisis Has Taught me |#16

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03/24/20 • 37 min

We are now one week deep into the global crisis that has descended on Canada. Yes, it has been going on for longer than that, but this week we went from a world where businesses were running as normal, people were out and about enjoying the parks, the libraries, the cafes and the movie theaters. And now, we are all sequestered in our homes, venturing out only to get groceries and to go to work. No extended family dinners, no playing on the playground, no going out for dinner or even to Starbucks. Our world has changed. Our day to day is drastically different than it was a week ago. In today's episode, I share 5 tips or strategies that I believe to be essential things to think about as we move into the next few months. As all this craziness gets crazier, we will need to keep the physical and mental health of our families at the forefront. We need to check our own physical and mental health so we can lead our family through this challenging time and make it through to the other side stronger, closer, better connected and able to navigate whatever our new normal turns out to be. LINKS FROM TODAY'S EPISODE: Visit the Lazy Parenting BLOG HERE Join our #lazyparenting community on IG HERE Join our #lazyparenting community of FacebooK HERE Follow Stephanie Kennedy on IG HERE SIGN UP FOR THE LAZY PARENTING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER HERE
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So here we are...in real time, smack dab in the middle of a global crisis... Well, what I hope is the middle although it might likely be just the beginning. This episode is being released on Tuesday, March 17th...here in Canada the Prime Minister just announced that our borders were closing to anyone except Canadians and US citizens...Community centers, libraries, pretty much all public places are closing their doors. I announced today that my own business, a children’s cheer & tumbling facility was suspending all programming for the next 2 weeks. All sporting events, concerts, all public gatherings have been canceled. The economy is struggling with the markets dropping “Social-distancing’ has become a common household term. People are being asked to work from home. Many people are being laid off. Schools have been canceled with no re-start date confirmed. Parents are having to think fast about how they will hunker down and survive the next few weeks, at home with all their kids....and amongst all this chaos...there are those of us who understand that we get to CHOOSE how we react to these circumstances...we can’t change what is happening, we can’t alter the course that is going to unfold...but we CAN choose how we react, how we behave in front of our children, how we control and mold the experience our children have through this time...we CAN make the best of this!

In today’s episode, I am going to break down how you can not only survive through this time with your children at home but how you can THRIVE and strengthen your relationship with your kids, how you can ensure that they learn and grow and remember this time as one that was amazing - because they got to spend time with their parents in a way that they haven’t been able to before.

LINKS OF ACTIVITIES FOR PARENTS HOME WITH CHILDREN:

100 activities to do at home during school closures

These 50 Fun Activities for Kids Will Keep Them Entertained for Hours

70 Things to Do with Kids Now That We’re All Stuck at Home Boredom Busters

110 Fun At-Home Activities for Families & Kids

LINKS FROM TODAY'S EPISODE:

Visit the Lazy Parenting BLOG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community on IG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community of FacebooK HERE

Follow Stephanie Kennedy on IG HERE

SIGN UP FOR THE LAZY PARENTING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER HERE

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Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy - 76. Talking with our kids about the war in the Ukraine

76. Talking with our kids about the war in the Ukraine

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03/01/22 • 6 min

From Covid to the Freedom Convoy to now, the war in Ukraine, our children have been inundated with some very hard things in 2022.

We have to address these topics with our kids. We need to check-in and make sure they are ok.

Today I share some ways, those of us who might not know where to start or what to say can begin.

Thank you for hanging out with me today! I love these daily chats and hearing from you as to how they are helping. Don't forget to DM me on Instagram, come follow along on TikTok or send me an email.

Even better - you can leave me a voice memo HERE I want this to be a two-way conversation!

Also, if you loved today's episode, please help me out and click 5 stars and write a review!

Follow Lazy Parenting on IG HERE

Join our #lazyparenting community of Facebook HERE

Follow Stephanie Kennedy on IG HERE

SIGN UP FOR THE LAZY PARENTING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER HERE

Be sure to send me a DM with any questions or struggles or just a "hi" over on IG! I look forward to hearing from you!

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How many episodes does Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy have?

Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy currently has 77 episodes available.

What topics does Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy cover?

The podcast is about Parenting, Kids & Family and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy?

The episode title '75. Your parenting questions answered - not listening or going to bed without a fight!' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy?

The average episode length on Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy is 17 minutes.

How often are episodes of Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy released?

Episodes of Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy are typically released every 2 days, 21 hours.

When was the first episode of Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy?

The first episode of Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy was released on Dec 3, 2019.

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