Parent Or Friend? The Choice They Want You To Make | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 25
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about gentle parenting, humanizing kids, autonomy, emotional regulation, and why seeing my tiny humans as people does not mean I am just trying to be their friend.
I get into why I call them tiny humans, building responsibility through little daily moments, the myth that gentle parenting is permissive, yelling, silent treatment, apologies, boundaries, and why I want home to be the safe place where my kids learn what to do when the real world is hard.
This one is about giving kids a voice, not handing them the whole house.
00:00 Welcome Back And Maui Prep
01:13 A Hodgepodge Parenting Episode
03:25 Why I Say Tiny Humans
04:35 Autonomy Before The Teenage Years
06:17 Teaching Responsibility In Daily Life
08:20 Three Year Olds And Clean Rooms
10:54 Making Chores Functional For Kids
12:38 Gentle Parenting Is Not Permissive
14:15 Big Emotions Need Tools
15:28 I Turned Out Fine, But Did I?
16:35 Preparing Kids For The Real World
17:23 Yelling And Losing The Message
20:12 Hearing The Whine, Not The Words
21:51 Silent Treatment Is Emotional Manipulation
22:46 The Homework Apology
24:05 The Gentle Parenting Thought Process
26:26 Asking If They Need A Hug
28:55 When My Kid Called Me Out
31:55 Humanizing Parenting
34:07 Protecting Their Emotional Space
38:43 Lucy The Doll And Building Trust
41:32 Seeing Them As Human Is Not Being Their Friend
43:20 The Middle Ground Nobody Talks About
45:36 You Get To Build The Relationship You Want
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to After Hours with Amanda, the parenting podcast that's not just for parents |
| 0:06.9 | and isn't totally all about parenting. |
| 0:10.4 | But honestly, I mean, let's be real it is. |
| 0:12.9 | I have to tell you, we leave technically for Maui fingers crossed y'all. |
| 0:19.2 | The stars align with everything because let me just tell |
| 0:22.3 | you, I will be believing it when we're on the plane because this trip has been canceled like six |
| 0:28.5 | times. So keep your fingers crossed for me. Send me all your good vibes, but we are T-minus. |
| 0:34.6 | I think it's 11 days. Is it 11? No, wait. It's 12. It's 11 or 12 days. And I'm very |
| 0:41.0 | excited because the kids have been so looking forward to it. And I think my excitement is not even |
| 0:45.9 | about going to Maui. It's about me getting to take the kids and see them in Maui because |
| 0:51.6 | they get so excited for trips like this. |
| 0:56.1 | We took a week off from the podcast. |
| 0:57.8 | It was my birthday, |
| 0:58.6 | and we all know that my ability to plan ahead is very, very not great. |
| 1:04.0 | I don't even know how to put that. |
| 1:05.0 | It's not slightly underrated. |
| 1:06.2 | It's probably overrated. |
| 1:07.5 | I don't even know if that's a thing. |
| 1:08.7 | But I honestly was like, I'm going to, it's not |
| 1:12.2 | happening. So I'm excited. I have to tell you, I sort of have a bee in my bonnet. And there's |
| 1:20.1 | been so many suggestions as of late of some really cool topics that we didn't get to last season in |
| 1:26.1 | terms of dating and relationships. |
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