Lazy Parenting with Stephanie Kennedy

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!

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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