Six Needs of Every Child :: Amy and Jeffrey Olrick [Ep 322]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Parenting, Leisure, Education

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As moms we are often looking for parenting formulas and quick fixes to solve our latest parenting problems. When they are babies, following formulas for sleeping and eating makes sense, but as they get older and their needs change it gets a lot more complicated.

We often turn to friends and mentors for advice, but that doesn’t always work or what works for one of our kids doesn’t for another and it can make us feel lost.

Jeffrey Olrick, Ph.D. and his wife Amy Olrick join me to share a different way to interpret our kids needs using some practical tools and the science of connection. They offer an alternative question to “What do I do?”, asking instead: “How can I be with this child?”. They go through the six needs of every child and a helpful compass to help you find your way when it gets challenging.

“I think some of it is a fear that we have parents. If we lose the trail for even a moment that our children will be put in imminent danger. And we want to set parents free from that and say, no, actually that's actually going to be pretty normal to lose the trail. But you are still together and you're going to find your way back to firm footing with these six needs.”

This approach is teaching me a lot in my own parenting and I know it will help you on your parenting journey. To learn more from the Olricks, check out their podcast!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.
0:11.0	I'm your host Heather McFadden and this is the place where I have the privilege to walk
0:16.7	alongside you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't
0:23.2	mom alone and this episode number 322 I am so pumped to get to share with you my new
0:30.6	faves Jeffrey and Amy Ulrich.
0:35.9	Our observation is parenting is a lot of moments of feeling lost and I think to talk to that
0:43.2	question of what do I do I think some of it is a fear that we have parents if we lose
0:48.4	the trail for even a moment but I you know wolves are going to snatch our children or
0:54.3	snatch us that somehow we have we are we are put in imminent danger if I don't get this
1:01.1	back right on the clean and clear path and we want to set parents free from that and say
1:06.4	no actually that's actually going to be pretty normal to lose the trail now man and especially
1:12.4	if you got three boys like three of you will be off the trail maybe one of you's on the
1:17.5	trail but you are still together and you're going to find your way back to firm footing
1:23.8	with these six needs giving you like a compass the direct like how did we get off what went
1:28.6	wrong there will debrief that later will be wiser the next at the next turn in the trail
1:34.4	to not get that far into the bushes.
1:38.8	I'm not joking that I have been giddy for this episode to release my in real life friends
1:46.2	know that I've been carrying around Jeffrey and Amy's book in my purse the last couple
1:51.5	weeks I try to weave it into every conversation the book is called the six needs of every
1:56.6	child and Jeffrey is a child psychologist he has done a lot of research on attachment
2:01.1	theory and he and Amy have written this book which helps parents move away from a formula
2:07.5	and recognize the science of connection and imperfectly being present with their children
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