Kids don't do as we say, they do as we do. Right? One mum was asked,

how did you persuade your child to read instead of playing with smart devices?

She said, children don't hear us, they imitate us.

Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose. Thank you so much for tuning in.

Week in, week out, I'm genuinely so grateful and appreciate each and every single one of you that takes out time out of your lives to learn, to listen and to grow.

And today's episode is something that I'm really fascinated by. I'm actually so excited to talk about this topic because I think it's something that we don't think about often, we don't talk about often, but every week when I'm doing these solo episodes,

I'm always thinking of, what am I reflecting on? What am I working on? What am I personally going through that I can help you with?

See, I've always seen myself as someone who experiments a lot, someone who tests a lot, and I try and learn from my own reflections, my own realizations, my own mistakes, and the steps that I'm taking in my life,

and this topic is something that I really hope is going to resonate with so many of you. So if you're here for the first time, a huge welcome to you, if you're here for the first time, a huge welcome to you, I'm genuinely so, so happy to have such an incredible community that consistently makes us the number one health podcast in the world.

So today's theme is six reasons why we must develop the emotional skills our parents didn't have and ways to get started. So these are the six reasons why we must develop the emotional skills our parents didn't have.

Now, whether you're a parent or not, the truth is we've all been children, right? At some point or other in our lives, early on, we were all children. Now, some of us may look back on our childhoods with incredible fond memories, and maybe when we do that, we can relive them, we talk about how amazing things were, and actually all we remember from the past is positivity.

And others, well, we actually may have trouble walking down memory lane due to a past trauma, due to past pain, due to challenges that still feel so real that we still experience them in our life today.

Now, this episode is for both of you, right? It isn't just for those who had a tough childhoods because parenting skills are for multiple areas of our life. Self-esteem and emotion is of course a key pillar, but our views on success, happiness, money, and relationships also make a big difference.

And whether you view your childhood as positive or negative, amazing or challenging, this episode applies to you. So make sure you're listening closely. This isn't about whether you came from a loving home or not. It's about taking responsibility for our lives and taking charge of our future.

Right? This isn't about whether you had the most amazing childhood or a bad childhood. This is about you recognizing what are the skills you didn't have. Right? The emotional skills that your parents sorry didn't have that you need to develop and learn.

A lot of people think the only school needed for parenting is to love their kids. Now, I'm not a parent, but having been a child, I know that there is a little more than that.

And from the parents that I know that invest in their kids, I also see that love is a key ingredient, but there's a lot of other things that we need to be wary of and conscious of.

So here's to parenting yourself. We may not even be aware of the skills our parents had or the ones they struggled with. But it's so important for us to develop those skills for multiple reasons.

In this episode, I'm going to give you the six reasons why we need to develop the emotional skills our parents never had and how to get started.

Also, it's a little entitled to believe our parents should have taught and given us everything we needed. I mean, no one can do that. Who could give you everything you need?

So this is about why we need to get what we need and stop being reliant or dependent or entitled.

Now, we've all heard this before. These are probably two of my favorite things that I've ever heard about parenting or children.

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