The Small Moments That Build Trust With Your Kids | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 35
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about parenting, trust, emotional safety, and the tiny everyday moments that decide whether our kids feel safe coming to us later. It starts with Christmas decorating and a broken ornament, but really, it becomes a conversation about communication beating condemnation, trust breaking in tiny fractures, and wanting to be the lighthouse my girls can come back to. This is not me saying I get it right every time. I mess up too. But I’m learning that if I want my tiny humans to trust me when life gets bigger, it starts with how I meet them now.
00:00 Two for Two and Taking the Small Wins
00:36 Disneyland Countdown Joy
01:14 Let’s Talk Hemorrhoids, Because Besties
04:12 Christmas Decor Before Thanksgiving
06:18 Halloween, Allergies, and Early Christmas Vibes
07:39 Amazon Storefronts and Life Updates
09:22 Christmas Decor and Holiday Campaigns
10:08 Building Trust With Tiny Humans
11:19 The Windshield Crack Analogy
12:45 Ornament Stories and Family Memories
14:00 The Broken Ornament Moment
16:05 Meeting Mistakes With Safety
17:32 I Want You to Talk to Me Later
19:22 Trust, Acceptance, Love, and Empathy
20:55 The Lighthouse and the Dock
23:33 Teaching Through Our Own Mistakes
26:15 Forced Apologies and Internal Repair
28:19 Teens, Power Struggles, and Communication
33:35 Trust in Marriage and Owning Impact
36:16 Relationship Building, Not Control
38:29 Teaching Emotions as Superpowers
42:23 It Is Never Too Late to Rebuild Trust
47:00 Communication Beats Condemnation
49:17 Final Encouragement
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so I think that this officially makes us two for two. |
| 0:06.3 | You know what, you guys? |
| 0:07.4 | I have to take the small wins, okay? |
| 0:09.4 | Like, I need to take the wins where I can get them. |
| 0:12.5 | And I am not a person that's not going to take the small wins. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm a person that's going to write a to-do list. |
| 0:18.2 | And if I do something that's not on that to-do list, I'm going to add it to the to-do list and then cross it off immediately just to |
| 0:24.4 | make myself look that much more productive. If you hear a little ice, I have a little bevarage, |
| 0:31.1 | but was it in, do you ask? A Disneyland Cup. Why do you ask? Well, because we have 25 days left till we're at Disneyland. |
| 0:39.9 | Okay. And the amount of joy. Now, we're getting down to Disneyland in 25 days. We don't |
| 0:46.3 | actually go in the park till 26, but I don't even care. I just want to be in the air where I can |
| 0:51.0 | smell the churros. I don't need to physically be present in the park |
| 0:54.4 | upon arrival. I just want to smell those churros, okay? I just want to do all the things. Anyways, |
| 1:01.3 | my heart is full of joy. But if you have been on social media all lately with any of my content, |
| 1:06.7 | you know that I've been talking about hemorrhoids. Okay. And here's the thing with this. |
| 1:11.4 | If this is not your thing, you can skip through the next several minutes. |
| 1:15.1 | But this is a personal beef I have with this issue. |
| 1:18.9 | This like shame around this issue. |
| 1:22.2 | And you might be like, Amanda, there's no shame. |
| 1:24.1 | No. |
| 1:25.0 | Do you know how embarrassing it is? |
| 1:27.1 | And I cannot tell you where that |
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