Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life Podcast where each week we talk about four rhythms

that help you reduce stress and anxiety and take charge of your emotional health. Rest,

restore, connect, create. These ideas come from Rebecca's best-selling book,

Rhythms of Renewal, trading stress and anxiety for a life of peace and purpose. So grab your

copy, invite your friends and let's live in rhythm. Welcome back I'm Rebecca and I'm Gabe

and today we're talking about our favorite subject parenting. Yes we are. We're the best parents,

don't you think? Let's just say we're not going to write a parent's book anytime. We're laughing

because I think any parent that's in the middle of parenting they're like are we going to make it

through it? How are our children going to turn out? Are we messing them up forever? Are we doing

the right things? It's certainly this huge roller coaster of emotion. I know and you can really

think one morning after drop off I am killing it like we are in such a good stride and then three

days later you're like that did that even happen? I don't remember that moment like here we are

something about the roller coaster of kids but especially those teen years it's like oh okay

now we're excited now we're not. I always am amazed at how I find myself repeating things that

my parents did that I didn't enjoy or appreciate and so I would never do and it's coming out of my

mouth and you're just sitting there I know parents listening to this they've gone through it too

and you're like how is the cycle happening? Why does it not break? No the best part was last night

when I was trying to enforce something that I'm not always good at in Kennedy goes mom you really

need to work at being consistent in your parenting thanks yeah I said when you are a parent you can

give me all the lessons I know it's funny the teenagers do you think they know and they know it

better parents they call you out they do not shrink back from that so it keeps you humble too which

isn't the worst thing but today I'm excited about who we have on crystal pain she is famously known

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