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Re-release MOMENT | How to help our children deal with their feelings with Rupert Spira

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8863 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Hi everyone and welcome back to The Motherkind Podcast. I’m so happy you’re here. This moment episode is a re-release with writer and spiritual teacher Rupert Spira. Rupert said something I can’t stop thinking about since our recording, he said that: The most important thing we can do as parents is to model how we handle emotions and that that's way more powerful than anything we could ever teach or say. I think you’re going to really enjoy this moment episode. As always we continue the conversation over on Instagram @zoeblaskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There's so much sort of parenting sort of advice around how we help our children with their feelings, talking about their feelings. I can see you're feeling

0:55.5

anxious. I can see you're labelling the experience for them. What I'm hearing from you is that

1:00.8

perhaps it's more about helping them understand that underneath that weather, underneath that

1:05.7

drama underneath, there is peace. How do you do this with a child and how can we model it and learn it so that

1:12.7

they see us doing this? You've answered your own questions. You model it. You don't try to

1:19.1

explain. You don't try to have the conversation that you and I are having with a four-year-old

1:24.3

child or a six-year-old. You have to model it. That's the most important

1:28.8

thing, model it, because children are very sensitive. They pick up, as you well know, they don't

1:34.4

just read what's going on on the surface. They pick up the deep experience of their parents.

1:38.5

So the most important thing is to feel this for oneself and model it. If you feel it and live

1:43.6

it for yourself, then you are without

1:45.0

even trying, modelling it to your children. Your children will pick up. They'll just feel

1:51.3

when there's a drama going on in the kitchen. They probably won't formulate it to themselves

1:55.4

until they're adults for many years, but they'll be aware, oh, mum's cooking tea for three children, the phone's going,

2:03.1

the plumber's mending, there's just drama in the kitchen, but they will feel that there's

2:08.3

this imperturbable quality in you. It doesn't mean say that you're not engaged, you're

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