Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Jenny Yerich, founder of 1,000 hours outside.

Welcoming Lindsay Ford here today. Thanks for joining.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to talk to you today. Yeah I can't

wait to hear about your story because you have this book out called the

positive parenting framework, the simple guide to let go of fear, navigate uncertainty, and

confidently parent the child in front of you.

That's a really good subtitle.

Because I think those are things that we are all struggling with on a regular

basis letting go of fear and navigating uncertainty and change. I'm going to read a

bit of your bio here. You are a certified parenting coach who helps parents interpret what their child is really saying when they act out and restore calm and cooperation back into their homes.

You are a member of the Positive Discipline Association and you've been featured a lot of places mind-body

green motherly holistic parent magazine the Boss Mom podcast and you are part of the

Thrive global contributing community and you live in Canada.

Yes. Yeah, so that's awesome. So tell us about this book. How'd you end up here?

Oh my goodness, what a journey.

The book was really a,

almost like my own project that I needed to do.

I was having a really hard time kind of even just clarifying my views on parenting.

Parenting world is kind of a noisy place and I was like, okay, I needed to get all of my thoughts down on paper and I decided

to write a book primarily for my own just to think through a lot of what I was doing. And also I really, I love

writing and I love trying to help parents really understand that they're not doing anything wrong with their child.

Like they're not going to screw up their child.

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