TPP 034: Kanesha Baynard on Navigating Multigenerational Dynamics With Our Parents and In-Laws

Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode I sit down with my dear friend and super talented life coach Kanesha Baynard to talk about the relationship we have with our parents and in-laws while also navigating our own journey as parents. Kanesha is an expert in multi-generational family dynamics and in this episode, we cover a lot of ground — the common challenges, tackling uncomfortable conversations, designing an alliance with our parents and in-laws, and much more. If you’ve ever had a communications fail or conflict or disagreement with your own parent or parent-in-law over some aspect of raising your own child, Kanesha’s perspective and practical strategies will undoubtedly inspire you to foster a dynamic that will best serve the whole family and meet everyone’s needs in a respectful way moving forward. Kanesha Baynard is a workshop facilitator, creativity coach, and inner wellness author who has been featured on the Dr. Oz Show. Her work has also been featured in many local and national publications. Kanesha is the author of The Self-love Playbook for #boldthinkers, 52 Powerful Questions: A Journal and Planning Guide for Creative Entrepreneurs, and Focus on What Matters: A Guided Journal. She is the founder of the Bold Living Today community focused on helping members disrupt unfulfilling patterns through creativity and navigate transition with confidence and boldness. Kanesha has created several card decks designed to help busy professionals, caregivers, and teens reconnect with activities and behaviors that foster imagination, joy, creativity, and space to refuel. Kanesha works with non-profit organizations, wellness groups, caregiving resource providers, women business owners, leadership teams, youth organizations, and individual clients to improve productivity habits, manage mental wellness through creativity, expand outreach opportunities through focused brainstorming sessions, and provide life skill mapping. Things you’ll learn from this episode How to recognize and understand generational differences between our parents parenting style and our own Strategies for handling difficult conversations with our parents How to handle it when we feel judged by our parents or in-laws How to take care of our needs and our kids needs during difficult moments How to ask for what you need from your parents and in-laws in a respectful way Resources mentioned for navigating tricky family dynamics Kanesha Baynard’s website Bold Living Today PAL Protocol: Managing Challenging Conversations in Multigenerational Settings The Self-Love Playbook for #BOLDTHINKERS by Kanesha Baynard 52 Powerful Questions: A Journal and Planning Guide for Creative Entrepreneurs by Kanesha Baynard Focus on What Matters: A Guided Journalby Kanesha Baynard Support the show Connect with Tilt Parenting Visit Tilt Parenting Take the free 7-Day Challenge Read a chapter of Differently Wired Follow Tilt on Twitter & Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Hey You.
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0:29.4	There's a sense of powerlessness that happens for us as parents. It happens for the kids and sometimes when the grandparents see us struggling with that, they have a sense of powerlessness and that's when they tend to go into this superhero mode where they're giving us all these tips
0:45.0	telling us everything they read, telling us what they should do in this kind of top-down way,
0:49.0	and oftentimes the attention is to solve a problem for us when it really just creates more problems.
0:57.6	Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids.
1:05.8	I'm your host Debbie Reaver and today I'm sharing with you a super interesting conversation that quite honestly blew my mind when we recorded the episode
1:14.6	because today we're talking about parenting from a whole new point of view.
1:18.9	Specifically we're looking at the relationship we have with our own parents and parents in law
1:24.4	while also trying to navigate our own journey as parents. And to help us dive into
1:29.6	all of this is Kenesha Baynard, a brilliant coach who, among other things, helps families navigate
1:35.5	the challenges of intergenerational families.
1:38.8	While this can mean families where people from multiple generations are living under the same roof, as was the case for
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