How We're Preparing to Parent Consciously With Non-Mainstream Techniques, Emotional Intelligence, and Communication Before She Can Speak: Episode 198

EmPowered Couples with The Freemans

Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

5.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Episode Resources & Links:

FREE Parenting WebClass with Amy McCready on November 10th HERE
Hypnobabies Program for Natural Birth HERE
Pelvic Floor Birth Program (One Strong Mama) HERE
The Conscious Parent book by Dr Shefali HERE
Video on baby communication sounds HERE
Elimination Communication (Go Diaper Free) HERE

There are many ways to parent a child and even the way of "let's just figure it out as we go". We wanted to take this episode to share with you about our prep for becoming parents this coming December.

As we are so into communication and emotional intelligence between couples, you shouldn't be surprised that we are learning about how to do that with our own daughter.

Of course reading and listening is not the same as the "as lived experience", there are a number of philosophies and parenting guidelines that we are committed to implementing so that we can be truly conscious parents. Being conscious parents will allow us the best opportunity to raise a conscious child.

By no means are we saying we will be perfect or that we are judging any other ways of parenting, we just wanted to be open with you all about our journey and to even see the correlations to being a great partner. We believe that if you want your children to have great relationships, you have to have one yourself!

In this episode, we discuss:

Our preparation for natural birth and helpful programs
Non-mainstream techniques for parenting intentionally
Conscious parenting and raising her to be the best version of herself
Developing "Emotional Intelligence" in our parenting approach (just like our marriage)
What we've learned from different cultures (outside the United States) for developing happy human beings

Additional Resources For Your Relationship:

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast.
0:02.4	We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate
0:08.0	like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face.
0:12.7	I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman.
0:14.2	And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but most of you know us as the Freeman's.
0:17.2	And this episode is about how we're planning to parent consciously with non-mainstream techniques,
0:23.7	emotional intelligence, and communication even before she can speak.
0:27.1	And I'm really excited to share some of these non-mainstream techniques.
0:30.9	We have been having a lot of fun learning about things that you don't see everywhere,
0:35.4	and even some that people were like, oh, no way.
0:38.9	And kind of even doubting, which we're like excited to try and even show like, no, no,
0:43.5	it can really work. And it's been a fun journey for us in preparing for parenting. And, you know,
0:50.7	we get a front row seat in our work with couples because we've shared about 85% plus of the couples that we work with are parents.
0:57.7	And even though we don't give them like parenting coaching, right, we support their partnership,
1:02.0	their communication, et cetera, we get to hear the challenges that couples face when their focus
1:09.1	is on the nursery and, you know, finding the hospital to birth
1:13.5	at. And there isn't as much preparation for who they want to be, be as parents. What do you want to
1:23.4	embody? You know, what do you want to model for your kids? And that's been a big focus for us.
1:28.9	Now, do we think we're going to be perfect at this right out of the gate? No, that's not,
1:32.5	that's not our goal. And actually parenting consciously is not about perfection at all.
1:38.1	It's really about us just being intentional and learning as we go.
1:43.0	Obviously, we wanted to share our journey.
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