Hey there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 285. How to parent when kids constantly change? Now if you're not a parent let me speak to you first.

If you have kids in your life in any way, students, nieces, or nephews, neighbors, whatever, and you want a lazy genius perspective on just being a person around a kid, I think this episode could be helpful.

Now obviously parents and full-time guardians, they're the ones who are kind of on the front lines of kids constantly changing, but this is not just a parenting episode.

It's really about how to be a person around kids who are trying to figure out how to be a person. You can also skip this episode if you want.

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To the episode, here's the challenge. Kids change at a crazy fast pace.

The minute you think that one parenting approach works, it doesn't anymore.

The minute you think this is how we communicate now, you don't anymore. The minute you get them a pair of shoes, they don't fit anymore.

We will not actually be talking about shoes in this episode, but I want to say that physical changes happen fast too, and these children need to stop growing out of things.

But again, not today's episode.

Being with and loving and helping guide kids is a privilege, a challenge, and it can be exhausting.

What works today won't work tomorrow. What works for this kid won't work for that kid. What works for you when you have energy does not work for you when you don't.

There are a lot of things that are in constant shift when it comes to adults being in relationships with kids.

So today, I want to offer some words about that shift, and then offer two simple start small steps, because that's what we do here, that you can take today to begin connecting more with your kids who are constantly changing.

Also, full disclosure, if you're new here, I have three kids. I have two boys who are almost 13 and almost 11, and a daughter who is 6.

By almost 13 and 11, I mean my boys both have November birthdays, so we're coming up on that. We are a whisper away from having a teenager. What is happening?

So yes, I have kids, but I'm not a parenting expert.

And honestly, I'm not sure anyone is really, because kids are too different to be an expert in all of them.

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