Go Visit Your Parents Or Go To Jail
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2013
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Turning your children’s failures into positive experience, When children blur the lines between fact and opinion and how we can help them. If you want to make your life less chaotic, then you need to make a shift in your perceptions. We discuss what imaginal cells are in a butterfly and how we can learn from them. Both how it affects our own life as well as how we’re connected to one another. We get some help from the way one of our favorite authors Bruce Lipton.
Go visit your parents or go to jail. That’s what they’re doing in China. More can be read about it here. We discuss whether or not this has a place in our culture.
Time stamp
3:03 The swimming pool with the kids- Whose job is it? Mom or Dad?
4:15 Recollection of some of the finest moments of National Lampoon Vacation
13:40 Turning your children’s failures into positive experience
16:40 Understanding the negativity of the daily news and how it can propel us to the change the world
21:53 When children blur the lines between fact and opinion and how we can help them
24:38 The dangers of when our children start to question their own belief systems
26:45 Sheryl Sandberg- the wisdom of teaching our girls to be great leader
28:35 “Be U” Class information created by Todd/Cathy
29:20 Discussion of a new law in China prosecuting children for not checking in on their parents. See more here
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36:35 Utilize the “search” function on our podcast to focus in on what the topics you’re interested in
37:05 Tournament of bad- voices that drive us nuts and people saying their busy
39:23 Cathy’s Chicago Parent column about boredom being a good thing
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here we go. My name's Todd Adams. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Kathy Adams. Welcome back, Zen Parenting Radio. We're going to be talking about perceiving chaos, right? |
| 0:14.2 | How to perceive chaos differently. That's what I meant. That's exactly what I meant. |
| 0:18.7 | We've gone through this title three times right before we started. |
| 0:21.4 | In the last two minutes. A lot of planning going on with this one. |
| 0:24.7 | Well, it's the planning. Actually, we came up with this idea over the weekend. We just didn't know what to call it. Remember? |
| 0:29.9 | We came up with the idea over the weekend, but no discussion has happened between that moment and two minutes ago. So point is that Todd said embracing chaos initially and I said |
| 0:38.3 | that's not really what it's about. We're talking about how to perceive sometimes when things |
| 0:42.7 | are chaotic in our lives, how to view it in a different way. Check. All right. Second point, |
| 0:47.5 | fact versus fiction or as you say opinion. Well, when your kids, no, no, no. When your kids make stuff up. Stop. But fact and opinion are two very different things, but opinion is not fiction. Exactly. I'm glad we got that figured out. Oh, God. I'm just talking. So the reason... I open my mouth up and words come out. I noticed that. And the reason we're talking about that is because one of my daughters, my oldest daughter, |
| 1:12.6 | she's doing something that I remember doing when I was a kid, which is answering everything |
| 1:16.9 | very definitively, even though she really doesn't know the answer. |
| 1:20.0 | Right. |
| 1:20.3 | And I honestly remember doing it and getting into a lot of trouble. |
| 1:24.4 | And I don't mean like trouble, like getting grounded. |
| 1:27.1 | I mean where people |
| 1:28.3 | catch you they'll be like no you didn't do that or no that's not correct but then I'm going to |
| 1:33.5 | share a story of how we have to balance that with allowing them to letting them know that their |
| 1:40.1 | opinion is valuable but facts are a different thing. So distinguishing the difference. |
| 1:44.4 | Distinguishing the difference. |
| 1:45.4 | All right. |
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