#97: Your Questions: The Survival Years, School Decisions, and Not Losing our Cool
Famous at Home
Josh + Christi Straub
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
* How to thrive in the survival years with young kids
* Should we send our kids to kindergarten early or hold them back
* How to manage our own anger and fear so as not to yell at our kids
* How to be emotionally safe in the early years
* The stage we set up for our kids in our dining room
The Questions:
* Hi! Absolutely love your podcast and have been a fan since episode one. Could you please post a picture of your living room concert stage? I love the idea behind this simple yet impactful and intentional choice you’ve made in making family memories come to life! God bless! --Suzanna
* I absolutely love your podcast and Safe House book! It's completely changed how I view parenting, as I did not grow up in an emotionally safe home. I struggle with control and anger that leads to yelling at my child. How can I safely teach my toddler that she needs to obey her parents without yelling or threatening? - Ashley
* Can you please talk about leading your family well in the survival years? We have a 3.5 year old boy and one year old boy. Thank you. - Mandy
* I would love some insight in delaying kindergarten. My son (my first born) will turn 5 on June 9th. I never really thought much about delaying kindergarten, and always just knew we would wait and make the assessment towards the end of his PK year to see if he was ready. My husband feels pretty strongly now about delaying it no matter what to help him in the future. There is just something about it that doesn't feel right to me, but my husband is pretty confident in delaying and I don't want to push and regret it later down the line in middle school when it seems the age difference really starts to become an issue. I would greatly appreciate and respect your thoughts. - Michelle
Show Notes:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Find a goal to say, here's when we're going to be out of the survival years. |
| 0:03.5 | We know we're going to be out of the survival years. |
| 0:05.0 | At this point, let's do a countdown. |
| 0:07.9 | Let's have a concerted plan in place to go, you know what, this is only a year. |
| 0:11.5 | We only have a year left of this. |
| 0:13.4 | So how can we embrace it? |
| 0:15.4 | Because you will miss the survival years. |
| 0:18.0 | You will miss parts. |
| 0:19.2 | There are parts of the survival years you will miss. And if you |
| 0:22.0 | don't embrace those parts now, you will, and you just are focused on what you're dreading, |
| 0:28.0 | you'll lose out on a lot of those precious moments. |
| 0:35.1 | You're listening to the In This Together podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub, a podcast dedicated to helping you live, love, and lead well as a spouse, a parent, and a human being. |
| 0:47.8 | Because no matter where you're at on your journey, you're not alone. We're in this together. |
| 1:00.4 | Welcome back to the in this together podcast we are doing our first question and discussion of season five i like to use the word discussion because we do not have |
| 1:07.9 | all the answers and most of these, questions don't really need answers. |
| 1:14.3 | A lot of the questions that we get don't really have an exact answer. |
| 1:18.2 | It's not black and white, it's gray. |
| 1:20.4 | But there's so many of us that are black and white thinkers. |
| 1:22.3 | And if you're a black and white thinker, part of our podcast is becoming, you know, if you've not listened to us if you didn't listen |
| 1:30.3 | the first season episode 91 it was the first episode of season five go back and listen to it we talk |
| 1:35.3 | about why parenting is not the right term and why becoming is the right term because we're becoming |
| 1:40.5 | and if you're black and white thinker, you need to start becoming because we realize |
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