Being Emotionally Present with Toddlers Amidst Responsibilities, Dealing with Overstimulation as a Parent + Shielding Kids from Emotional Pain (Q+R)
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, the entire Intentional team sits down to respond to your questions, covering a range of topics, including emotional availability, attachment, overstimulation with kids, physical intimacy in marriage, and navigating emotional pain with our children.
We discuss the difficult task of staying emotionally present with toddlers while tending to household responsibilities. Elizabeth unpacks common misconceptions about attachment, explaining that secure attachment isn’t about being constantly available but is instead about a continued pattern of relating and knowing how to repair when we inevitably fall short.
We delve into the reality of overstimulation and feeling “touched out” with kids — and how that may dissuade us from desiring physical intimacy with our spouse. We discuss practical ways to navigate this challenge, including clear communication and strategies for regulating your nervous system. We also acknowledge that while this season of parenting young children is emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually demanding, it also strengthens our resilience, helping us build tolerance for life’s everyday stresses.
Finally, we tackle the question “Can we shield our children from emotional pain?” Instead of striving to protect them from every hardship, we discuss the importance of naming and acknowledging their pain, equipping them with tools to process their emotions, and ultimately pointing them to their heavenly Father as their true source of comfort and strength.
Tune in for an honest, encouraging conversation about the complexities of parenting — and the grace we need to navigate it all.
Scripture Mentioned: Luke 8:1-3, Luke 9:1-2, Psalm 32:7, Genesis 50:20, Genesis 39:21, Romans 8 + Psalm 91
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Intentional Parents podcast, brought to you by Intentional. |
| 0:06.3 | Intentional is all about spiritual formation in the family. |
| 0:09.9 | We desire to bring biblical hope and practical hope. |
| 0:13.5 | Enjoy this week's conversation. |
| 0:23.3 | All right, welcome back to the Intentional Parents podcast. |
| 0:26.7 | We want to answer your questions today. |
| 0:32.2 | We had some great questions given or rather sent in and some themes emerged. |
| 0:36.7 | And we want to cover today just even talking about meeting each other's needs and desires when one is physical and |
| 0:37.8 | one is emotional wonder who's his physical one wonder who's is emotional I already know the answer to |
| 0:42.5 | that one we want to talk about overstimulation from your kids what do you do with whining and being |
| 0:46.7 | overstimulated yourself and with littles that's a big one what do you do when you want to shield |
| 0:52.5 | your kids from emotional pain right like what do we do with all that so we're kids from emotional pain, right? Like, what do we do |
| 0:55.5 | with all that? So we're going to cover some of those themes and some of those questions today. |
| 0:59.3 | And also want to say thank you to everybody who's rated, subscribed, and also left a comment |
| 1:03.3 | wherever you listen to this. That is so helpful. So wherever you ingest this content, |
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| 1:15.3 | if you haven't, links in the show notes. But we're going to respond to some of your questions |
| 1:19.1 | today. And I'm excited about that because these are always, I love spontaneity. So that's why |
| 1:24.5 | I love these conversations because I just don't know where they're going to go. So where did you want to start? |
| 1:29.7 | You wanted to start with the being present with the toddler or the oversimulation? |
| 1:33.5 | Which one did you want to? |
| 1:34.4 | The being present one. |
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