084: Black Boys, Black Hair, Black Anger w/ Michael Waters
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07/20/20 • 45 min
Many of us feel intimidated to talk to our kids about racism. It’s so much more than someone not liking someone else because of the color of their skin and that can get confusing. However, we don’t need to make it this hard. We just need to provide them with an awareness of the world and how it operates as they grow.
In this episode, Michael Waters helps us understand how to do that. He is an award-winning author, activist, professor, and speaker. He has published a couple of books on race, faith, justice, and family, so he fits right in here. He also has a children’s book coming out soon that answers many of the inquiries our children have about current events. Listen in for great insight on how to communicate with our kids about the changes that need to happen in our world.
Show Highlights:
- The conversation with his son that demanded a response and sparked the idea of a children’s book on racism.
- How to help our kids understand racial injustice.
- What actual change-making needs to look like right now.
- How to approach anger and navigate a parenting conversation on it.
- The role of faith and interfaith groups in fighting against systemic racism.
- Black hair and how it is a metaphor for the slow growth that’s required for justice work.
Links (affiliates included):
Pastor Michael’s website: https://michaelwwaters.com
Guide and coloring sheet download here:https://www.flyawaybooks.com/for-beautiful-black-boys
Parenting Forward Conference Sessions - https://www.parentingforwardconference.com/2019-sessions
Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt
Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/2GB6eDB3
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Many of us feel intimidated to talk to our kids about racism. It’s so much more than someone not liking someone else because of the color of their skin and that can get confusing. However, we don’t need to make it this hard. We just need to provide them with an awareness of the world and how it operates as they grow.
In this episode, Michael Waters helps us understand how to do that. He is an award-winning author, activist, professor, and speaker. He has published a couple of books on race, faith, justice, and family, so he fits right in here. He also has a children’s book coming out soon that answers many of the inquiries our children have about current events. Listen in for great insight on how to communicate with our kids about the changes that need to happen in our world.
Show Highlights:
- The conversation with his son that demanded a response and sparked the idea of a children’s book on racism.
- How to help our kids understand racial injustice.
- What actual change-making needs to look like right now.
- How to approach anger and navigate a parenting conversation on it.
- The role of faith and interfaith groups in fighting against systemic racism.
- Black hair and how it is a metaphor for the slow growth that’s required for justice work.
Links (affiliates included):
Pastor Michael’s website: https://michaelwwaters.com
Guide and coloring sheet download here:https://www.flyawaybooks.com/for-beautiful-black-boys
Parenting Forward Conference Sessions - https://www.parentingforwardconference.com/2019-sessions
Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt
Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/2GB6eDB3
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EPISODE CREDITS:
If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.
He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world.
Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com
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083: Parenting Teens, the Mental Load, & Passing on Faith w/ Kristen Howerton
By and large, evangelical culture defines Christianity by what we don’t do. This gets passed on to our kids until they begin to define themselves not by what they love, but by what they abstain from. In reality, it’s a beautiful thing when we raise our kids by teaching them what we do; what we love and fight for.
Kristen Howerton is a blogger, podcaster, and author who is on a mission to do just that. In her new book, Rage Against the Minivan, she tells her personal parenting story and helps parents understand that there is no “right” way to raise kids. Kristen is also a licensed marriage and family therapist and a mother to 4 children by birth and adoption.
In this episode, we talk about the unique difficulty of parenting teens, why women often bear the mental load in their families, and how moms can authentically pass on their faith.
Show Highlights:
- Kristen’s faith evolution experience and how she expressed that publicly.
- The lack of resources nowadays for parenting teenagers.
- How to love our teenage children as they journey towards adulthood.
- Responding to our children by empathizing with the feelings instead of the conviction.
- The mental load women take on and how to excavate and stop reinforcing that message.
- How Kristen’s spiritual baggage plays into her parenting.
Links (affiliates included):
Kristen Howerton’s website: https://www.kristenhowerton.com
Kristen Howerton’s book, Rage Against the Minivan: https://amzn.to/2ZzyIVY
Mental load: https://www.workingmother.com/this-comic-perfectly-explains-mental-load-working-mothers-bear
New York Times Interview with Jon Stewart - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html
Parenting Forward Conference Sessions - https://www.parentingforwardconference.com/2019-sessions
Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt
Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/2GB6eDB3
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EPISODE CREDITS:
If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.
He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world.
Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com
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085: Holy Troublemaking & Raising Strong-Willed Children with Daneen Akers
Love and justice will only arise when we unite with those who are different from us. People with diverse backgrounds, faiths, and even beliefs have the power to come together and create something beautiful. However, if we surround ourselves only with those who are identical to us, we will never reach the same heights.
Daneen Akers is a visionary who understands this well. She invited me to be a part of a project that has become one of the things I feel most honored. For this project, she wrote a book for middle schoolers titled Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints. It is a children’s storybook about people from different faiths coming together to work for love and justice in their corners of the world. In this episode, she shares where her idea for this book came from and how she put it all together.
Show Highlights:
- Daneen’s process for deciding who to feature in her book.
- The profiles that especially resonated with her.
- Why it was important to her to use different styles of artists.
- The definition of troublemaking that was at the forefront of her mind.
- Advice for parents who are raising strong-willed children.
Links (affiliates included):
Find my Holy Troublemaker profile here:
https://www.holytroublemakers.com/cindy
Casper Ter Kuile’s session about rituals can be found here:
https://www.parentingforwardconference.com/2020-sessions
Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt
Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/2GB6eDB3
***
EPISODE CREDITS:
If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.
He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world.
Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com
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