Parenting makes your brain mushy

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

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

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Do you forget names or what you are going to say next? Do you walk into a room and forget why you are there? Don't fear- we can relate, and we also have some ideas to make your brain less mushy. There is a book called "Keep Your Brain Alive" that discusses Neurobics - these are ways to train your brain to stay alert and sharp. Cathy just returned from a vacation and discusses its importance and how we put "fake" importance on our day to day activities. If we can all step back and re-prioritize we'd be in a much better place. Lastly we discuss boys and the stigma against physical affection. A question came in from a listener about her 10 year old son being one way during the day and another way at night. Along the same lines, we discuss a blog written by Shannan Younger titled, "Thank you, Shaun White, for not medaling in the Olympics" Shaun White (famous snow-boarding Olympian) asks for a hug from another man in his moment of defeat. Resources: Mom Translator Skit- SNL Keep Your Brain Alive by Lawrence Katz & Manning Rubin Thank you, Shaun White, for not medaling in the Olympics Lumosity- a simple online tool to improve cognitive function in various populations. Jill Bolte Taylor's Ted Talk- A Stroke of Insight 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. Todd's Men Adventure Retreat is February 28th through March 2nd. Please email @ [email protected] for details. 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

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0:00.0	My name is Owen from Elmhurst, and this is Zen Parenting Radio podcast number 163.
0:13.1	Hello, my name's Todd Adams.
0:14.8	And this is Kathy Adams.
0:15.9	Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio, episode number 163. We had a little guy named Owen
0:24.4	introduced the show. Oh, really? Do you know who Owen is? Not our neighbor, Owen. No, it's
0:29.5	cat's son. Oh, yes, I know Owen very well. From Tree of Life. So anyways, thank you, Owen. But
0:34.2	Zen Parenting Radio, it's a discussion between a spiritual, emotional, mom, and a logical
0:38.7	and practical dad.
0:40.0	We have three daughters, ages 6, 9, and 10, and our goal is to give you the resources to
0:43.5	become a better parent, but more importantly, to become a better you.
0:46.8	And the best predictor of a child's well-being, sweetie, is a parent's self-understanding.
0:50.6	Yes.
0:51.1	So we're going to talk about vacations.
0:53.3	Yes, a little bit. A little bit.
0:54.9	We're going to talk about the brain. A little bit. And how to not get a case to the stupids.
1:01.4	Yes. I have some ideas. And I also wanted to finish up because remember last week I said I would
1:05.8	say something about prefrontal cortexes. And it's not boring, I promise. It's just an understanding.
1:11.6	And then we're going to deal with at least one of our listeners' questions.
1:16.6	Nicole has a really good question that we haven't talked through yet, so it'll be interesting
1:21.0	to hear how we do this.
1:22.0	Yeah, I don't even know what it is.
1:23.6	It's on your sheet.
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