Identifying your child's love language w/ Emma Christmas

Mama Knows

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Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this conversation, Nina and Emma Christmas delve into the concept of love languages, particularly focusing on how understanding these can enhance parenting and strengthen connections with children. They discuss the five love languages—words of affirmation, physical touch, quality time, gifts, and acts of service—and how recognizing a child's love language can improve their emotional well-being and behavior. Emma emphasizes the importance of adapting parenting styles to nurture children's love languages while also addressing the challenges parents face in providing connection amidst busy lives. The discussion highlights the significance of self-awareness in parenting and the impact of early experiences on a child's love language development. 00:00: Understanding Love Languages 04:12: The Importance of Love Languages for Children 08:02: Exploring the Five Love Languages 12:32: Adapting Parenting Styles to Love Languages 16:26: Navigating Connection and Attention Seeking 21:19: Recognizing Signs of Connection Needs 25:56: The Development of Love Languages Emma Christmas | Founder of Everyday EHC Teacher and parenting bestie specialising in emotional well-being, children’s mental health, behaviour and big feelings. I’m all about helping parents to help their children and this starts with understanding why children think, react and behave like they do. I’ve supported thousands of families online and offline. I offer children’s relaxation audios, quality time ebooks and courses for parents and practitioners. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everydayehc/ Love Languages Blog Post: https://www.everydayplayideas.co.uk/post/lovelanguages Free affirmations eBook: https://www.everydayplayideas.co.uk/ebook Episode Sponsor: Lume whole body deodorant is the perfect solution for anyone! Lume is baking soda and paraben free and most importantly, ph balanced. As a special offer for our listeners, all new customers can get 15% off all Lume products. Use our code, mamaknows, for 15% off your first purchase at lumedeodorant.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Zach and Laura from Marriage Therapy Radio.
0:04.3	It's a weekly podcast where we, two marriage therapists, talk through all kinds of issues related to your relationship.
0:09.2	And we have two main goals each week.
0:11.1	The first is to talk about relationships in a way that makes you go, huh, I've never thought about it like that before.
0:16.1	And the second is to give you at least one practical tip or trick or tactic that you can use in your
0:21.2	relationship right away. So check out marriage therapy radio wherever you find your podcast. And join
0:25.5	us in making your relationship better today than it was yesterday. Okay, so I've known about love languages for a long time. I'm such a love language geek because I,
0:41.8	when my husband and I first started dating, I didn't really know much about it, but then I got the book.
0:47.0	I got the love language book. I think it's called the seven love languages. And I figured our love language is out. I made him take the test. I took the
0:56.6	test. And I've always kind of like gone back to our love languages as far as like how to connect
1:03.3	with each other. And our love languages are so different. And it's annoying because his, I think his is
1:08.2	quality time. And I do not, I just want to be alone.
1:11.3	Like I like to be left alone. And mine is words of affirmation. And my husband doesn't like
1:16.7	talk. He doesn't like, he's not a big chatty person. So it's like we're kind of fucked.
1:21.3	But we work it out. Anyways, we have two little kids now. And I've always wondered what their
1:25.9	love languages were. And it's been one of those
1:27.5	things that I'm like, I want to figure it out. I think I kind of know. But I'm so excited about
1:32.8	this episode today because I think it's so important to know how our kids want to be loved and how
1:37.5	we can nurture that love and then how to like navigate if we are different from our kids. So today
1:42.9	we're jumping in to talk about love languages
1:45.3	with Emma. Emma, I would love for you to introduce yourself to us and who you are, what you do,
1:52.0	and a little bit just about you. You're a mom too, right? Yeah. Hi. Oh, it's so good to be here. I am
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