36. How To Be Awesome At Having Patience With Kids!

How To Be Awesome At Everything

Lindsay Dickhout

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🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Lindsay summarizes today’s episode:

My very first guest today! My 9 year old daughter Stella! I wanted a kids perspective when talking about this!

We’re talking about PATIENCE!!

How do you have patience with kids who won’t move on to the next step?

This is where I get the most frustrated… get in the car for school… come sit down for dinner… time to brush your teeth…

This is where I have the most frustration… and how I need to tell myself to be patient

I tell myself I WILL NOT LET THIS BREAK ME

I WILL NOT LOSE MY COOL

THIS IS NOT GOING TO BREAK ME DOWN

Sometimes we all need a BRAIN BREAK!

When my kids flip out or loose it or yell or some other response that isn’t ideal for the situation… I have them walk around the corner… out of sight… I tell them to take a brain break and come back. Don’t come back until you’re ready.. until you’re in a better state of mind.

OR I take a brain break!!

I take a deep breath.. or I walk away for a minute!

RATHER THAN throwing out consequences that are too harsh and I’m not going to actually execute. And that's the key - we have to stick to what we say.

SO … GET NEUTRAL before giving consequences!

I also get into how to be a-tune to where your kids are developmentally and how to be realistic. Also… how to deal with babies when they are frustrating!

I go through how I’ve learned to LISTEN! I thought I was in my younger years of being a parent… but then I realized a lot of time I wasn’t. I want to know how THEY feel… sometimes I THOUGHT I was being patient but they actually thought I wasn't. Then when I heard their explanation of it- I could totally see your point.

I want to make make sure my kids feel like they are being heard.

I talk about giving my kids choices… and accepting who they are and not trying to control them.

Lots of fun stuff packed in this one… and I hope this podcast helps you take a step back and remember how important it is to be patient with our kids. It’s just so important for their happiness and for your relationship… and for the overall feeling in your home. As hard as it can be at times, I think it’s one of the most important things we need to work to master as parents.

Cheers to having patience! Even when they won’t get in the damn car!

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0:00.0	How to be awesome at having patience with kids. Today I have my very first guest and a very special
0:05.6	guest to give us perspective on this topic, my nine-year-old daughter, Stella. If there's one lesson
0:10.9	I've learned the most in the last few years, it's about letting my kids have their own voice be heard
0:15.7	and having it be important too. So I've got a kid here today as we talk about being patient with our
0:21.9	kids and how we can work together so we don't lose our cool with our kids. We're going to talk
0:27.2	about how we take a brain break in our house when we need it and we come back when we're in a better
0:31.9	state of mind and lots of other tips and hacks. We're talking all about being patient with those little humans who
0:38.7	sometimes take 15 minutes to get in the car. So take a deep breath as we dive into having patience
0:45.1	with our kids. Let's go. You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast,
0:51.1	where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more awesome.
0:55.8	Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife,
1:00.8	and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times.
1:04.6	This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting
1:09.0	to get to her kids one day. And now it's a podcast.
1:12.2	Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do. Here's
1:17.3	Lindsay. Okay, so here we go. How to have patience with kids. I have Stella here. Hello, Stella.
1:24.2	Hi. By the way, that's how Stella says hi all the time.
1:28.2	Hi.
1:29.1	Very cute.
1:30.7	So we are talking about how to have patience with kids.
1:34.2	How about patients with kids who won't move on to the next step or won't get where they need to be?
1:39.9	This honestly is where I get the most frustrated, like get in the car for school, come sit down for
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