S5 Ep132: Raising Connoisseur Kids with Jennifer L. Scott
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today on Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie Koppa brings back her popular Season 4 guest, Jennifer L. Scott. Jennifer has a new book for families, Connoisseur Kids: Etiquette, Manners, and Living Well for Parents and Their Little Ones, which is the main topic of this week’s episode. MacKenzie and Jennifer talk about why and how to instill confidence, care and capability into our children so that they become the kind of adults we all want to be around.
- MacKenzie asks Jennifer about her new exercise routine with a Rebounder trampoline
- Some of the reasons Jennifer wrote Connoisseur Kids and why she feels it is so needed
- A sneak peek into the subjects and format of the book
- Instilling confidence in our children through teaching them how to interact with new people
- The high value of teaching our children how to do chores and contribute to the family
- Phrasing your requests for kids to help in a positive, motivating way
- Jennifer’s desire to bring back some selflessness, good sportsmanship and civility to our culture
- Helping our children build good hygiene habits while they are young
- Motivating kids to choose healthy foods by involving them in the process
- Playing games and activities to get kids moving and build good attitudes about exercise
- Teaching children to keep routines and to do those things with a happy heart
- Taking care of what we have so that we are good stewards of our belongings
Jennifer: enjoying reading aloud to her children and the special time they share around stories
Resources Mentioned- Books: Find Jennifer-You can find Jennifer on her website, JenniferLScott.com, or on her blog, The Daily Connoisseur. You can also follow her on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family-friendly podcast The Same Page!
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| 0:00.0 | We want that for our children. We want them to do their routines and enjoy them because it's |
| 0:05.1 | truly these routines that make up our entire lives. You might as well enjoy it. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. |
| 0:23.9 | And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. |
| 0:30.2 | So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, |
| 0:34.3 | and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. |
| 0:37.9 | If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating the lovely.com, |
| 0:41.7 | visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, |
| 0:46.3 | or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite places to interact with all of you. |
| 0:50.8 | You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. |
| 0:52.9 | Thanks so much for joining me today. |
| 0:57.7 | Ladies, I am so excited for today's guest because I've had her on before. She's one of my |
| 1:03.7 | favorite people, one of my favorite authors, and she's absolutely lovely. It is the one and only |
| 1:10.0 | Jennifer L. Scott. Yes, you guys know her as |
| 1:13.4 | the Madame Sheik author. I had her on last spring. She is so much fun. And she has a brand new |
| 1:19.1 | book out called Connoisseur Kids. It's so good. It's so sweet. It's beautiful. I can't |
| 1:25.4 | wait to read it with my daughters. I have done a thorough |
| 1:27.9 | flipping through and now having talked about it with Jennifer, I'm even more excited about it. |
| 1:32.2 | I can't wait for you guys to hear about it on today's episode. But I also wanted to make sure |
| 1:36.9 | that I reminded you guys really quickly that this is the week to be signing up for cultivating |
| 1:42.1 | groups in our Patreon group. So if you want to get into a |
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