142. What Do They Remember?: 4 Tools for Modeling Kindness to Children
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We often assume our children are blocking us out. Our words of wisdom seem to go unacknowledged. However, they are listening more intently than we think. In this mini-episode, we discuss the importance of modeling the kind of humans we want our children to become because they are paying attention, even when it doesn’t seem like it.
“How you deal with positive things and how you deal with life’s challenges is going to be the model upon which they begin to create their own personality and their own life.” – Michael Berg
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| 0:00.0 | To be a really positive role model effective parent, you need to model everything it is that you want them to learn, which is really hard, which is why I often say being a parent is a thing that grows you the most spiritually because it requires you to do these things. |
| 0:21.6 | If you do it right, if you do it right. |
| 0:22.6 | If you're attempting to do it right. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to spiritually hungry. |
| 0:30.6 | Summer edition. |
| 0:31.6 | Mini summer addiction. |
| 0:33.6 | Addiction. |
| 0:34.6 | Adipion. |
| 0:35.6 | Adipion. |
| 0:36.6 | Sure. Oh, I'm thinking about swimming dipping okay so today that's not a bad one |
| 0:43.5 | spiritually i'm gonna say skinny dipping but that's not that's not appropriate at all children |
| 0:48.7 | listen to this podcast do they no our children do do yes i I was driving with David and he started playing last episode. That's cute. He was entertained. He laughed every time he made a joke. Did he have commentary? No, he was just enjoying. I like that. Yeah, why didn't you film him watching it? That would have it given me a pleasure. All right, well, actually, speaking of children. Oh, not coincidental. |
| 1:11.6 | Today we're going to navigate the wonderful world of parenting. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, a snack, spiritual hungry snack. |
| 1:18.6 | In particular, I want to talk about how our children learn by listening to us and watching our actions. |
| 1:24.6 | This is a statement that might make you chuckle. I've always liked it because often it |
| 1:29.9 | feels like they're not listening at all. This is a quote from James Baldwin. He said, |
| 1:35.5 | children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to |
| 1:40.3 | imitate them. As parents of four, we're no strangers to the many ways kids can tune out. |
| 1:47.3 | But the truth is, they're listening even when it doesn't feel like it. And we've, you know, |
| 1:51.1 | having the range that we have with our children 24 all the way down to 10, you can see what |
| 1:56.0 | sticks and what doesn't. And they're listening and watching. Watching. Very carefully. |
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