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Zen Parenting Radio

Effortless Perfection (Or Not): Podcast #518

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

Education, Philosophy, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Cathy and Todd discuss Anna Quindlin’s quote, “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself”, and how we can help our kids understand this at an early age. They discuss the anxiety kids feel to do everything right, and why kids from high-achieving schools are now considered “high risk”.

Transcript

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0:00.0

do do do do do here we go my name's Todd this is Kathy welcome back to another episode of Zen

0:10.7

Parenting Radio this is podcast number 518 why listen to Zen Parenting Radio because you'll feel

0:16.2

outstanding and who doesn't want to feel outstanding and always remember our motto which is the

0:20.7

best predictor of a child's well being is a parent's self-understanding.

0:24.6

On today's show, you're going to talk about...

0:27.5

We are going to talk about effortless perfection.

0:31.1

And I'm saying that.

0:33.4

By the way, I'm drinking a smoothie.

0:35.2

And they say that sometimes that makes you cough.

0:37.5

Actually, last time I did that during the show, I cough the whole time.

0:40.4

Do you remember?

0:41.0

I'm not coughing. I just decided.

0:42.9

Well, are you effortlessly perfect?

0:46.0

I'm effortlessly perfect.

0:47.8

Okay.

0:48.2

But first, we have a conference come up, February 28th and 29th.

0:51.7

The early bird is over.

0:57.8

What he means by the early bird is over is we had early bird prices until last Friday. But do not despair because you can still get tickets

1:03.1

to the conference. Just go to zen parenting radio.com or zen parenting conference.com.

1:08.3

I just found out that there are a few more spaces for my pre-conference

1:13.1

workshop, which is good news. I did not think there were. There's more spaces for the guys

1:17.4

pre-conference workshop too, sweetie. There are. There's spaces for both. So if you already have a

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