224: Connecting with Your Kids in 5 Minutes (with Brittney Smart)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In today's episode, I'm joined by author, freelance writer, and mom of 5, Brittney Smart. Brittney's book, The Five-Minute Time In: Effectively Re-Engaging With Your Child(ren) in Just Five Minutes a Day, was born out of her own journey to connect deeper with her children. After a period of feeling disengaged and in apathetic autopilot, she discovered a habit that would make her children feel seen, heard, understood, liked, and loved.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 224. We're talking about creating |
| 0:06.0 | more connection with your kids in five-minute chunks. Stay tuned. Hi, I'm Jen Ridey, and this podcast |
| 0:13.4 | is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive. You'll gain the emotional, |
| 0:19.9 | physical, and spiritual tools you need to get your |
| 0:22.7 | sparkle back and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle don't rule your life. Welcome to the |
| 0:28.9 | Vibrant Happy Women podcast. Hey, my friends, Jen here. And welcome back to Vibrant Happy Women. |
| 0:35.5 | We are talking about kids and connection and boundaries |
| 0:40.5 | for the next several episodes. Today I'm talking with Brittany Smart, who wrote a book all about |
| 0:46.2 | five-minute time ins, how to intentionally create connection with your kids. Now, in this episode, |
| 0:52.8 | Brittany mentions one of the most powerful things |
| 0:54.6 | she noticed was the importance of eye contact, how just taking moments here and there to really |
| 1:00.3 | look in her kids' eyes was very powerful. And that's because when we look in each other's eyes, |
| 1:08.1 | oxytocin is released, which is the love and connection hormone. It |
| 1:11.4 | helps us feel committed and loyal to and connected to the person in whose eyes were gazing. |
| 1:18.3 | Scientists will take two random people from the street and have them gaze in each other's eyes |
| 1:23.8 | and then rate their feelings about that other person, their assumptions about that other |
| 1:28.6 | person. And consistently, when people have engaged in eye gazing, they rate the other person, |
| 1:34.5 | who is a complete stranger to them, more positively, as someone who is more of someone they might |
| 1:39.7 | be a friend with. I find that really fascinating. Well, as we approach summer vacation, some of you are just |
| 1:46.5 | about to slide into it. Some of you probably are in the midst of it. This is the perfect time to |
| 1:52.0 | really connect with our kids, if you have them, or with loved ones. We do a lot of connecting in |
| 1:58.0 | warmer seasons of our lives. So in this episode, I want you to be |
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