Living consciousness and keeping our kids “busy”

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

Education, Philosophy, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Todd and Cathy discuss their disagreement over how "active" their kids should be in extracurricular activities. Keeping kids "busy" is connected to our past experiences and our need for constant productivity. It is essential that we see ourselves and our motives clearly when creating expectations for our children. We also talk about some conscious parent foundational elements including self-awareness, mindfulness, and kindness. Conscious parenting is not a "technique", it's actually a way of living and relating to yourself and others. Click here to find Cathy's books The Self-Aware Parent 1 & 2, click here to find her blog, and click here to find her Chicago Parent column. Todd has a few spots opening for his Men's Group. Email me @ [email protected] Tree of Life Chiropractic Care have some interesting workshops planned. An outline can be found here. If you shop Amazon by going through our website first (there is an amazon link on the bottom right hand of our home page), a portion of your sale will help fund our Be U program. Thanks for supporting us! Check out our new website & be sure to sign up to get all new podcast sent direct to your inbox @ ZPR. We would love to hear any comments from the show by sending us an email @ [email protected] You can be sure to hear more by liking our Facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/ZenParenting How important is a good smile? Just ask our new partner John J Kelly DDS. They are located on the northwest side of Chicago and will meet all of your family's dental needs. Painting or remodeling? Don't forget about our parnter Avid Co.

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0:00.0	Here we go. My name's Todd Adams.
0:05.5	This is Kathy Adams.
0:06.4	Welcome back to Zen Parenting Radio, episode number 176.
0:10.3	Zen Parenting Radio, do you know what that is?
0:12.2	That is a discussion between a spiritual and emotional mom, that's you, and a logical and practical dad.
0:17.7	That's me.
0:18.2	We have three daughters, ages 6, 9, and 11, and our goal is to give you the resources to become a better parent, but more importantly,
0:24.0	to become a better you. He said become. Become. The best predictor of a child's well-being is,
0:30.1	in fact, a parent's self-understanding. And today we're going to be talking about conscious
0:34.3	parenting, which is a parent's self-understanding. That's right. Our friend Dr. Chivali was on Oprah last night.
0:40.3	She was on twice.
0:41.3	He's in the building!
0:44.6	That's my new Oprah drop.
0:46.7	I don't know who he was, I don't know who she's talking about.
0:49.4	Maybe she was talking about Shavali.
0:50.4	Whenever you bring up.
0:51.0	Does she say he or she?
0:52.0	I think, I think.
0:53.0	He's in the building!
0:55.9	I need a bunch of Oprah jobs.
0:57.5	So there's the only one I could find.
0:58.6	So we're going to be talking about the foundation of what conscious parenting means to us, the
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