You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. We're two former

next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting

you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, friends. Hey friend. Today we're talking

about calm parenting. I think calm parenting is something we've both

tried to practice since becoming parents, but it's been on our minds even more lately, I think

especially with the intense amounts of parenting we've all been doing. And in a previous episode,

you shared the mantra, my energy is my own, which I think so many people also responded to,

meaning that you're responsible for choosing how you react to your children, and that just

especially applies to parenting.

So, and I've been thinking a lot about calm parenting after a year when a lot did not feel

calm inside my house.

My children did not act calm.

But I also really learned that it's up to

the parents to set the tone. So we thought we needed a whole episode to dive into this. So we will

share what calm parenting looks like in our homes when we most need calm parenting and our

tried and true strategies. Plus, we'll share our favorite resources

for calm parenting. I think, too, it can be helpful to know the ages of the kids that we have

when we talk about this because it's certainly going to look very different for toddlers and older

kids. So Erica's girls are nine and almost eight. My kids are eight, six, and one.

So I will soon be calm parenting, hopefully a toddler.

So that'll be exciting.

They give you a good initiation to it right away.

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