130 - The Three Stages of Parenting

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Lisawoodruff, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Just as there are 4 phases of life that I identified in the Mindset Of Organization Book, these 3 phases of parenting all need different organization as well. The more you understand where you are in life, the more successful you will be at finding and implementing the organization you need to make your life function better.

Parenting Stage 1: 0-6 years old – You Do It All

The first stage of parenting is sheer survival! Under the age of 6 almost all daily duties with your children fall on your shoulders. The days are long and I’m not sure who said the years are short – they weren’t for me!

Organizing yourself and your family in this stage is like shoveling snow in a snow storm. Organization is unique to you and your family and likely will completely change every 3 months. My solution was to chunk my year into 3 month groupings. I would make a few goals for each of my kids, purge their clothes and toys and keep plugging away.

Parenting Stage 2: 7-12 years old – You Do It Together

The grade school years of parenting were the easiest for me. I loved the structure, the fact that my kids were still under my control and the great friends I made during those years. These are very social years where the kids and parents connect and enjoy activities together.

As your kids age through this stage their toys will go from being everywhere – to being only in their rooms. These are the years when your kids learn chores and establish their contributing roles to your family dynamics.

Parenting Stage 3: 13+ years old – Guidance & Support

This parenting stage is as time consuming as the first, except this time I am in my car all the time and not at home. Luckily for me I view that large quantity of driving time as the best quality time I get with my teens. Deep thoughts, but dreams and life lessons are often talked about in the hours and hours of time I spend with my teens in the car.

I find myself going from managing one family calendar to providing and supporting my teens as they take on their own calendar scheduling, activities and start making their big lifetime goals come to life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional
0:07.4	organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your
0:11.8	home organized and help you organize life stages and
0:15.8	unexpected events. So sit back, relax, and let's get organized. Today on the podcast, I want to talk to you about the three stages of parenting that I have gone through.
0:31.0	When we adopted our kids, I listened to focus on the family a lot at that time and I'm pretty
0:37.4	sure that this is where I first heard this from Dr Dobson but I could be wrong and he I believe it was he who said that you should
0:45.4	look at parenting as three stages of development or three stages of parenting so birth
0:52.0	to age six is really where you are doing everything for
0:56.2	your child and then 7 to 12 which is the grade school years typically are where
1:01.2	you and your child are doing things together.
1:04.1	And then ages 13 to 18 are where you are guiding
1:07.8	and supporting your child into adulthood.
1:10.4	I am pretty sure he's the one that said that,
1:12.4	and I have thought about that
1:14.4	everyday since like I love knowing the big picture and knowing where I'm going with my parenting and I take the fact that I'm raising independent future citizens
1:25.4	very seriously, which is why I chose Montessori School for my kids, which is very independent
1:30.2	learning and teaching children to take care of themselves, their community, and their
1:34.3	possessions.
1:36.8	When you look at parenting this way, it really helps lower your frustration level in different stages of kids life and have different
1:46.2	goals for you and your kids.
1:48.3	So when you think about your kids who are not in all day school yet that are zero to age six that is the survival years of
1:55.6	parenting at least for me the days are long but the years are short is what they
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