How Did It Go?- Episode #743
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Todd and Cathy discuss why it’s important to process how the holidays went before moving forward—what worked, what didn’t, and what can be repaired or celebrated. They also focus on school refusal after the holidays, emotional labor during the holidays, and answer a question about what’s most important when raising boys.
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(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:03:40) Advice on raising boys
(00:11:01) Purple turkey story
(00:15:04) How did it go?
(00:17:31) School refusal *
(00:26:08) Zen Parenting Conference
(00:26:36) Team Zen Circle
(00:29:24) putting up the gate *
(00:30:27) Cookie monster story *
(00:36:38) Mom’s feel like they’re on an island
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| 0:00.0 | So I think that the week between Christmas and New Year's is a very strange week because we don't know, like, how attuned to life we need to be, because you still kind of feel like you're on some kind of vacation and everybody else is too. |
| 0:17.3 | But I kind of think this week is like that, too. |
| 0:20.1 | The week after? |
| 0:22.4 | Yeah. So today we are recording this on what January 2nd. So happy New Year everybody. And I kind of feel like even though |
| 0:28.3 | people are technically maybe going back to work, most people don't go back till next week. |
| 0:34.3 | Well, in school, obviously. Yeah, school. Maybe that's it. It's that school hasn't started. |
| 0:38.1 | Most people are probably back to work. |
| 0:40.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.3 | But not everybody. |
| 0:40.8 | It feels a little different, though. |
| 0:42.6 | So do you like this? |
| 0:45.1 | Yeah, but I'm reacclimating to my, we did a yoga class this morning. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.3 | And let's just say it was a little off. |
| 0:51.5 | But you called it strange, right? Called what strange? |
| 0:56.6 | What did I call strange? |
| 0:58.1 | You said this week is strange. |
| 0:59.9 | I did. |
| 1:00.6 | So I'm going to play this. |
| 1:04.7 | People are strange. |
| 1:05.8 | I didn't say people are strange. |
| 1:07.5 | I know, I added that. |
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