Quarantine Mom with Katie Brown - Natural Self Portraits that Boost Esteem

Natural Self Portraits that Boost Esteem

04/21/20 • 8 min

Natural Self Portraits INTRO: Hi I am Katie Brown Today I want to talk about how we can make the family around us in these days of quarantine feel good about who they are. Announcer: Welcome to Quarantine Mom The place for inspiration to take your family higher during this time of togetherness. SET UP: In these challenging time, when family is all we got, I want to talk about creating something that will help us teach our family how to feel good about who they are, how they smile, how they laugh, how they gaze, how people see them, how they make others feel, the way they care and share. I want to talk about a way we can remind them how much there is to admire about exactly who they are. SEGWAY Today I want to share an activity with you that will allow you to identify and celebrate with your children; yep I said CELEBRATE, (this is something that is so very important to do as a family during these challenging times) I want to share with you how to CELEBRATE the things we and more importantly they are grateful for about themselves. In a moment I want to walk you though a how to make a unique self portrait made from nature. Quarantine Hack: First, today's Quarantine Life Hack FAMILY DOINGS: Children, teens, heck even grown ups get their self esteem their confidence from WINS ... I call them LIFE WINS.... They can come in BIG grand awards and goals achieved But, today I am not talking about BIG awards or momentous accomplishments I am talking about the little wins, The small winks that can make us stand a little taller and put a spring in your step.... The subtle daily gestures, -your friend throwing you the ball on the schoolyard, -your teacher calling on you and telling you well done when you answer, -the passerby who says I like your smile -the older woman who remarks “aren’t you sweet “ when you hold the door open for them These are all positive reflections that our kids need and deserve as they slug through their days Those daily affirmations are part of the simple sauce that helps flavor their opinion of themselves. They are part of the recipe that make our children confident and self assured They make one comfortable with who they are. It is all part of maturing and developing self-acceptance. In these days of sheltering in place, those little LIFE WINS are not available to stirr into the soup of self-esteem. It seems that many in this world during this time of Covid 19 suggest we spend time acknowledging -What we are grateful for, -Making graduate lists, -Starting gratitude journals which I agree is so important and such a good habit to teach your children I just think it is important during this time of isolation when the LITTLE WINS are not being delivered from the people we normally interact with that our young ones take stock in what they know and love and appreciate about themselves Some may call it bragging (Although it is a fine line) I call it self-love which to me is part of self-care and self-acceptance and self esteem And what better way to get the kids talking about the things they like and are proud of in themselves then making a creative self-portrait As they put it together ask them what they like about their face, their smile, their kind eyes, the way their nose crinkles when they laugh, Let the creation of this work of art stimulate the conversation with themselves, with you, with their siblings about what in them is so special that it can light up a room. And watch them sit a little taller, smile a little wider, laugh a little louder and soak up a whole lotta wins that have been left out of the daily baking during this shelter in place period. How-TO : To get this celebration of self-esteem started you and yours need to grab a paper or plastic bag and head outside. Collect and toss into your bags things like rocks, bark, pinecones, leaves and grass. Then pull up a chair to a table where you should place a bundle of cardboard squares T...

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On The Quarantine Mom Podcast We are going to introduce a daily activity that will help you and your family rise during this season of sheltering in place. We will attempt to put each one of these family projects (that can be adapted to kids of all ages) into a context that will deliver the WHY it is a project worth doing during these challenging times With the hope that it will present teachable moments on how we can all Spring out of this better and bolder and braver than ever. Tune in daily for your project of the day grounded in a thought of the day that will keep your family busy doing something that will help ease the stress and struggle of these crazy times Stay Strong, Stay Safe, Stay Home.

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MacGyvering - How to make do with what you have during Quarantine

INTRO: Hi I am Katie Brown Today, we are going to celebrate all the inspired, improvising, or “Macgavering” going on in the world at large and at home during this challenging time. SEGWAY Today I want to share an activity that you can do with your family that should help start a discussion about the definition and practice of Macgavering and how it will lead to much needed growth, innovation and recovery during this difficult time. This activity should spark a discussion that the same type of creative engineering that is going on in the world can be taking place right in our own homes and thus transform each and everyone’s life as we struggle through this so that we as individuals and families can come out with new and improved ways of being. The art of Mcgavering is an essential life skill and now is the perfect time to introduce the benefits of the practice. Set up: In this time of sheltering in place do you keep hearing the term Macgyvered? We sure do. We hear it when it comes to making masks and other protective gear We hear it when it comes to providing ventilators.... We hear it when it comes to home schooling, We hear it when it comes to disinfectant And so much more I think this term is a good way to hug what is going on personally, with your family and in our world as a whole during this challenging time. Macgyver was a TV drama staring Richard Dean Anderson that ran from 1987 to 1992. Dean whose character’s name was Annngus escaped life- threatening situations by using his improvised engineering skills and cobbled together ingenuity. Are you seeing the parallels? This is a time when the whole globe is trying to raise to the challenge of combating this virus, which has presented us with unprecedented circumstances, We as a people are trying to look at research, medications, habits, and instruments in a new way that might help us return to our normal life To Macgyver your way out of a situation you must be creative, think fast take a look around and see something in a different way, in a new way, in an inventive way, in a way that is useful in that moment. As we spend day after day within the four walls of our home is it not a good time to encourage our kids to do the same..... To take a look around Take stock of what we need and what we do not need What items and things in our house and home are useful and which our not Which ones can we recycle or reuse in never before thought of ways? Being adaptable and resourceful are such great traits to instill in our young ones. In a world when is so easy to run out and get exactly what you think you need, it is nice to take advantage of a time when that is not an option This is a time where we are a country, a world, a family and people who want something that we do not yet have It is a time that it seems at least in part the quickest ways out, the fastest way to make this happen is to .....very simply put.... “MacGyver it” The Oxford Dictionary states that to “MacGayver” is to make or repair something in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items are on hand” for example, “he MacGyvered a makeshift jack with a log”. In the TV show Macgayver used a pair of binoculars to deflect a laser beam and fashioned a smokescreen from baking soda and vinegar He jump-started a truck with a cactus He used a Dorito, some duct tape, and a paper clip to create a time machine. Make use of this stressful time, MacGyver this time, if you will, encouraging them to find new ways to have fun, learn, laugh and love. The world will do the same, in time, and this planet will too engineer it’s way out of these darks days and into the sunlight with new ways of living, loving and learning. Reassure them that a whole team of brilliant real life MacGyvers are hard at work trying to find solutions to this global pandemic in big ways and in simple ways The Family Doings: To illustrate the idea that we are getting there, that MacGy...