021 - Sixteen Lessons in Parenting

The Show Up Podcast

Natalie Norton

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Health & Fitness:mental Health

5 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Today is a very special day. It's my oldest son Raleigh's 16th birthday! For today's show, I'm going to share 16 short lessons I've learned over the last 16 years being a mother. I hope these little lessons are helpful as we head into summer and having more face time with our kids home from school. Connect on Instagram: @natalienorton Website: https://letsshowup.com/ If you find this episode helpful, I'd love to have you share it on social media or taking the time to leave a review! XO - Natalie

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Show Up podcast with me, your host, Natalie Norton.
0:06.0	This podcast is all about having the courage to be a really good human and living the kind of life that genuinely fires you up every single day.
0:15.2	Are you ready to become your best self and truly show up for your life, come what may?
0:19.9	Me too. Let's do this thing.
0:23.8	Well, hi. Hello, this is Natalie. Welcome to show up with Natalie Norton. This is episode
0:30.6	number 21. We're going to do something a little bit different today. And I will tell you why, because today is a very special day.
0:41.3	Today is my oldest son, Raleigh's 16th birthday. Oh, my goodness. It feels like it's been maybe 16 months.
0:51.9	The fact that it has been 16 years is absolutely unfathomable
0:56.9	to me. So for today's show, I'm going to share 16 lessons with you that I have learned
1:04.0	over the last 16 years being a mother. And I'm just going to dive right in. Number one, you're never, ever going to
1:15.5	regret one single moment that you spend truly engaged with your child. I remember when I learned
1:24.7	this lesson. I was, I think Raleigh was probably three months old. And I remember I was
1:30.7	walking home from a church activity with a few other moms that lived in the married student apartment
1:35.9	complex that we lived in. And one of these moms was talking about how her two or three month
1:41.7	old little girl just slept through the night like no big deal just went to
1:46.5	sleep when it was time to go to sleep didn't really cry much slept all night long nine 10 hours of
1:53.5	sleep and i'm sitting here ready to rip my hair out because my little guy super colicky doesn't sleep in longer than two to three hour bursts.
2:03.2	And I am just at my wits end. So exhausted, I feel like I'm going to die. And I remember going
2:10.1	home and talking to Ritchie about it. And I remember buying the books that this other mom
2:14.6	had recommended to me. And I remember talking to another mom, a friend of mine,
2:18.7	Naomi, who had been involved in this conversation with me. And both of us were just like,
2:22.9	oh my gosh, if only our kids would sleep the way that this other girl's baby was sleeping.
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