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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Connected Relationships Jim Lynne Jackson Ep 222

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

For day two of Don’t Mom Alone Live, Jim and Lynne Jackson are back to talk all about relationships and answer listener questions.

If you’ve ever felt like a bad parent because of your child’s disobedience or struggle to referee the sibling arguments and fights in your home, this episode is for you! The Jackson’s share their Peace process and how to be confident before God in how you are parenting.

It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. So we need to have confidence in our ability to be peaceful and not let this child’s behavior define me or tell me that I’m a bad parent. And have the long-term view that God can do anything in a child’s life as I persevere in encouraging and teaching and training.

They share great practicals for blended families and for how to navigate parenting when you and your spouse or co-parent aren’t on the same page. We also dive into teaching your children empathy and social cues as a way to foster great friendships.

In the end, our goal can be to equip our kids to be conduits of God’s grace to the world both through their relationships with others, but it starts with their relationship with us.

When I thought about that the kind of relationships in life that Jesus bought for our kids on the cross, not just with each other but whatever relationships they’d have. I just had this image of “trickle down grace” starting from the cross and just trickling down through us to our kids and then out to the world and our kids. We can grow to become profound dispensers of grace in life to others.

What we chat about:
  • Getting feedback about our kids that makes you feel like a “bad parent”
  • Keeping the long-view when you are training your children
  • There is a dramatic increase in anxiety and depression in children, teens and young adults. It is five to eight times greater than it was 50 years ago.
  • What to do when you and your spouse aren’t on the same page with parenting
  • Ask penetrating questions when your spouse is struggling to parent in kindness.
  • “What are you hoping our kids will learn right now?”
  • Blended family dynamics and how to co-parent well
  • You are building trust with your kids and when you are confident before God in how you are parenting, you can be at peace with how someone else is parenting
  • Ask kids: What do you want to tell me about how you’re feeling and how your time went?
  • Sibling rivalry and how conflict is an opportunity to teach our children how to reconcile
  • The Peace Process the Jackson’s teach: Calm > Understand > Solve > Celebrate
  • Celebrating that your kids reconciled is an important step to future success
  • When your kids feel encouraged and successful when working through conflict, you can see the momentum begin to change
  • Learning empathy as a family and equipping your kids to be more successful in friendship
  • Quick connects with individually with your kids can be more effective than playing with them for longer periods. Find ways to show that you delight in who they are!
  • Use mission trips and giving back to the community as your vacation/connection time as a family
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0:00.0

Hey y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. I'm your host, Heather McFadgan,

0:11.1

and this is a place where I'm going to connect you with people and resources and remind you

0:16.2

that you're not alone. In this episode, number 222, it's the audio from our second day

0:23.0

at the Don't Mom Alone live event that happened a few weeks ago, where Bruce and I sat down

0:27.8

with Jim and Lynn Jackson of Connected Families. Here's a little clip from that conversation.

0:33.0

I remember looking at Daniel who could be pretty aggressive and I remember thinking,

0:37.4

you are the three-dimensional representation of my failure as a mother.

0:43.4

I know and I immediately went, wow that was really dysfunctional.

0:48.9

But it was in there right? But you know how often do we kind of feel something like that when

0:54.6

sibling conflict happens? And so I learned to set aside my baggage about that and to set aside my

1:00.2

baggage about older brothers should never pick on little sisters that I had from my childhood

1:06.0

and to just go in empathetic about how hard this is for these little intense personalities.

1:13.4

And then I could go in and just throw my arms around and we're off from a hug and go,

1:17.2

this is so hard you guys isn't it? Wow you both love this toy don't you?

1:23.1

And I could connect and empathize and communicate, I'm for both of you.

1:29.1

So our first night of the event we talked with Jim and Lynn about discipline and about the

1:33.2

Connected Families framework and we kind of referenced that in this episode. So if you don't know

1:37.9

what we're talking about when we say words like foundation, go back and listen to last week's episode

1:43.2

first and then come to this one. We focused in on your questions related to relationships,

1:49.5

whether it's with those outside your home like teachers and coaches or with your spouse or maybe with

1:56.0

an ex spouse with a blended family situation. We talk about siblings, we talk about connecting

2:02.0

as a family without it being stressful. All that is in this great conversation with Jim and Lynn.

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