Podcast 494: It’s time to embrace messy parenting
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk about embracing “messy” parenting. We all know that parenting is hard. As parents, we will make mistakes. We are only human, after all! As parents and guardians, it is important that we give ourselves permission to be what I call “messy”. This means embracing our feelings and mistakes and learning from them, using them to grow and learn as parents. It means using our own struggles to help our children understand how to manage the “messiness” and challenges of life through example and open communication. Indeed, one of the best ways we can teach our children how to manage their mental health is by modeling how we deal with life’s difficulties, including how we parent them and how we embrace, process and manage our own mistakes.
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
1:20 Why we should embrace “messy” parenting
2:50 What “messy” parenting means
5:00 Constructive versus destructive parenting
8:20 Using mind management to learn from your mistakes & grow as a parent
14:20 How embracing messy parenting can help us grow & improve our relationships
22:10 How to give yourself permission to be a messy parent
27:25 Why parenting is not just about sacrificing yourself
28:40 Why you need to remember that you were also a child once
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leith and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Messe. |
| 0:10.0 | Well in today's podcast I'm going to talk about something that is very close to my heart |
| 0:14.8 | and that is why we as parents should embrace messy parenting. |
| 0:24.1 | So why am I talking about this and what do I mean? |
| 0:27.3 | Well I've got a new book coming out which kind of explains why I'm doing this called |
| 0:31.7 | How to Help Your Child Clean Up their Mental Messe. |
| 0:35.6 | It's going to be released on the 8th of August and it's on pre-order now and you can go |
| 0:39.4 | to the link mentallyresilientkids.com, the link in the show notes to pre-order this and |
| 0:45.0 | there's some great pre-order bonuses. |
| 0:46.9 | Now let me tell you why. |
| 0:48.7 | This will help you as a parent, help your child manage their mental health and it will |
| 0:52.8 | help you manage your own mental health. |
| 0:55.2 | It will help you give yourself permission to do something that you've heard me say |
| 0:59.6 | often if you listen to me and that is it's okay to be a mess and it's also okay to be |
| 1:05.6 | a messy parent and it's also okay to be a messy child. |
| 1:11.4 | And we need to hear this, I need to hear this, I'm a parent of four children and two |
| 1:16.1 | son-in-laws and I need to hear this because many times I put this unbelievable pressure |
| 1:23.1 | and I know you know what I'm talking about if you're a parent. |
| 1:26.2 | I'm unbelievable pressure myself to be everything to everyone and I know you understand this. |
| 1:32.8 | So I'm not saying something that I'm doing that you aren't if you're a parent. |
| 1:36.4 | I want to be the best support to my husband, I want to be the best support to each of my |
| 1:40.6 | four children with each of their unique needs and my two incredible son-in-laws and |
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