Mindful As A Mother

Have you ever heard someone complaining about how we are raising a generation of "entitled" kids? Okay, Boomer!!! The critical person in your life may have a point, but it's not your fault. In this episode, Lindsay dives into how technology and the world we live in is making our children unable to tolerate distress, boredom, and the build up to excitement and how this leads to entitled behavior. She talks about technology, instant gratification, and ways that you can approach these issues intentionally in your parenting. So get cozy, grab a caffeinated beverage, and tune into this episode.

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Paige talks about how to normalize anxiety for yourself and your kiddos...within reason. All too often anxiety gives pushback to our boundaries and now it's dominating our life like Aunt Jude at the family dinner. The key is to learn how to curb our own awfulizing and how to turn our kid's awfulizing into moments of resiliency. Listen for practical tips, skills, and real-life scenarios on how we can help ourselves, and our kids, move away from anxiety. Three big takeaways: Big bucket/little bucket situations and problem solving, how to handle the "what ifs", and revisiting past experiences to bridge future success.

Paige and Lindsay dive into Q&A's from the community. Topics include stories of how we (the therapists) have definitely lost our cool, how to begin building emotional awareness for ourselves and our kids, parenting kids with a "short fuse", helping kids overcome insecurity, and what to do when you feel disconnected from your teen.

Don't forget to snag our "Check Yo'self Before You Wreck Yo'self" workshop to better understand how to identify your triggers and begin building emotional awareness for yourself and your kids. Link can be found here: https://www.lindsadamslcsw.com/workshops/check-yo-self-before-you-wreck-yo-self

Lindsay takes a deep dive into the question that she gets asked the most on Tik Tok.. "How do I figure out the need behind my child's behavior?" She shares three areas you can explore and make tweaks so that you are meeting your child's needs and addressing unsavory behaviors. This episode was inspired by a post from the Child Institute of Psychology.

This week we’d like to extend a very warm welcome to Gina Prosch. Gina is an award-winning children’s book author. Her new book Hope! More Than Wishful Thinking [Boys Town Press, March 11th 2024] is the second in the Holly’s Choice series and teaches kids that while it is important to have hope, wishful thinking alone is not enough to help us achieve our goals. Together we’re going to cover topics including what inspired her book Hope! More Than Wishful Thinking, how can we teach our children to be active participants in positive emotions, how we can model positive emotions to our kids to help build their emotional resiliency,

You can find Gina’s book here: https://a.co/d/f869bzS

You can find Gina here: www.ginaprosch.com

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