Hello brave friends. Welcome back to the Brave Writer podcast. I'm Julie Bogart, your host.

2022 is here and I'd like to do a little experiment with this podcast.

Up until now, the way we've run it is to offer a season at a time with a theme.

Sometimes the seasons are solo shows of me sharing about principles around parenting

or education. And then other seasons have focused on interviews,

whether they're with you or with people who have resources

that they can offer us.

This season is a little different. We will continue to have

conversations with invited guests that I select based on their merits and

how fascinating I find them to be. But I'd like to include

what we are going to call Julie Pep Talks. Shorter content somewhere between

seven and 15 minute long podcasts where we narrow the focus to a

particular topic and then I just riff about it, give you some thoughts I'm having,

hopefully give you some suggestions to put into practice quickly with you and your family.

So thanks for joining me today. Let's get started.

Today's topic is setting boundaries, not setting rules.

Setting boundaries, not setting rules.

What do I mean by that? Well, you're in luck. boundaries not setting rules.

What do I mean by that?

Well, you're in luck.

We're going to spend the next 5 to 15 minutes, however long it takes, talking about the

difference between rules setting in your family and having boundaries.

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