"How do I connect better with my kids?" [Ep 475] :: Summer of Mentorship Week 1
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Rachel’s Hands Free Mama mentality is all about finding balance in a media-saturated, perfection-obsessed world. And it’s about seizing the little moments that life offers us to engage in real and meaningful interaction.
She shares a realization that she was not connected with her own people. How she was believing a lie that she needed to hide certain parts of herself, the messy parts, the imperfect parts, in order to be loved and accepted.Her “ah-ha” moment came when she vulnerably shared this belief with her daughter and found acceptance.
“Opening that door to being human actually brings us closer together. Then we can connect from that place of 'I'm struggling' and that doesn't mean there's something wrong with me. That doesn't mean I need to hide it. It means I need to reach out and talk to someone about this so we can work together to see how we might go forward.”
From that place she has chosen to extend that same acceptance and found real connection. Which then helps keep the lines of communication open as they grow up.
“This is all about redefining what our role is as a parent. It is not the authoritarian model anymore. It is the guide, the truth teller and the encourager. Not the enforcer, not the half listener, not the critic. That those roles are only going to get us further and further from each other when the idea is right now we need to come closer.”
Connect with Rachel:
- Website: handsfreemama.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/TheHandsFreeRevolution
- Instagram: @handsfreerevolution
- Twitter: @handsfreemama
- Click here for special 7-day listening plan for Don’t Mom Alone Listeners
- Live Love Now [BOOK]
- Only Love Today [BOOK]
- Amy McCready--Positive Parenting Solutions
- Pre-order Bonuses--21-Day Self-Care Listening Plan AND 4 Downloadable Tools for Connection
- Ask “Heart Questions vs. Performance Questions”
- Practice phrases that take you “From Conflict to Calm”
- Consider if you are an “Easy-to-Be-Around Adult”
- Exclusive Phone Lock Screen - “Connecting by Protecting”
- What kind of parenting model did you grow up with? How has that model influenced your parenting today?
- Do you see your role as more of an enforcer or an encourager?
- What are some problem areas for your child(ren) that you can bring them in on finding a solution?
- Could taking the time to listen to them make a difference in how you both respond?
- What is one thing you’d like to implement this week from Rachel’s talk?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host Heather McPadian |
| 0:16.0 | and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you |
| 0:18.0 | and connect you with people and resources |
| 0:21.0 | so you know that you don't mom alone. And in this episode and in |
| 0:25.0 | this episode number 475 we're doing it again summer of mentorship |
| 0:29.0 | 2024 and if you're unfamiliar with what that is back in 2017 I started this thing |
| 0:35.1 | where I would choose six episodes from previous years in the archives and we |
| 0:40.3 | would republish them. It was a way to be reminded of just wise counsel and information |
| 0:48.0 | and give our team a little bit of a break. Now, this first week of the summer of mentorship, we are republishing an episode |
| 0:57.2 | I recorded in April of 2020 with Rachel |
| 1:03.2 | started the hands-free movement years ago and then in 2020 she released a book |
| 1:07.6 | called Live Love Now. In this conversation we dive into what Rachel's learned in her parenting journey as a mom of teens and preteens and she talks about how she chose true connection and how that can bring our kids closer to us and keep that communication lines open. |
| 1:25.8 | I felt like reading her book and having this conversation was really impactful to me. |
| 1:30.8 | As I transitioned into those teen years. |
| 1:33.2 | She said, it's about redefining our role as a parent |
| 1:36.8 | to move away from the authoritarian model |
| 1:39.5 | to recognize we can be the guide, the truth teller, |
| 1:42.1 | the encourager, instead of being an |
| 1:44.4 | enforcer and a half listener and a critic, that those roles will only get us |
| 1:48.8 | further and further from each other and I feel like in the summer, although we may spend a lot of time together, |
| 1:56.2 | we may not be feeling connected to our people. And so I wanted to offer this information to you. |
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