Pessimism, sibling rivalry, & a ressurected goldfish

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

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

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Typically pessimists respond to problems by believing these three things: It's Personal- They blame themselves for an event that has occurred. It's Permanent- They think it will never get better. It's Pervasive- They assume failure in one area of life means failure in life as a whole and that failure is happening everywhere and can't be stopped. Do we carry some of these traits? Does it affect our parenting? We discuss this and offer options for turning these thoughts around. We also discuss a few scenes from The Shawshank Redemption and Terms of Endearment. We answer a listener's question regarding a rivalry between her two sons- (ages 8 and 10) and how we almost lost Goldie the goldfish. We are facilitating our next virtual retreat! It's called "The Good Life" and it's in celebration of Mother's Day. Youtube clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4xYENd02_E&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw Other resources discussed on the show- The 4 Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz Other notes: 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 has 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 Painting or remodeling? Don't forget about our parnter Avid Co.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Todd Adams.
0:06.8	This is Kathy Adams.
0:07.8	Welcome back to Zen Parenting Radio.
0:09.2	This is podcast number 171.
0:11.3	What Zen Parenting Radio, you ask?
0:13.7	Zen Parenting Radio is a discussion between a spiritual and emotional mom.
0:17.6	That's you, sweetie, and a logical and practical dad.
0:20.8	That's me.
0:22.2	We have three daughters, ages 11, 9, and 6, and our goal is to give you the resources to
0:28.0	become a better parent, but more importantly, become a better you.
0:30.9	And always remember that the best predictor of a child's well-being is what, sweetie?
0:35.4	A parent self-understanding.
0:37.0	Very good.
0:37.5	So one of the resources we're going to give to our audience is that we are doing a retreat,
0:42.2	a Mother's Day retreat.
0:43.8	And this is our first official discussion on what this is all about.
0:47.9	Todd and I just started talking about it this morning.
0:50.0	We wanted to call it the Life is Good Retreat.
0:52.3	But that is a trademarked name.
0:54.0	Life is Good. We can't do that.
0:54.9	So we're not going to call it the life is good retreat for Mother's Day.
0:58.2	What are we going to call it?
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