What Is Zen Parenting? Part 2- Podcast #701
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Cathy & Todd discuss 4 invitations to being a positive parent. They discuss 1) What do we want for our kids? 2) Relationship b/w EQ (Emotional intelligence) IQ (Intelligence Quotient) & BQ (Body Intelligence) 3) When we cop out 4) Discussion, not discipline. Link to Podcast Episode on our website.
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- 34:56 The problem with wanting our kids to be happy
- 43:07 Relationship b/w EQ (Emotional intelligence) IQ (intelligence Quotient) & BQ (Body Intelligence)
- 47:00 When we cop out
- 58:40 Discussion, not discipline
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go. My name's Todd. |
| 0:06.2 | This is Kathy. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:09.7 | This is podcast number 701. |
| 0:12.6 | Why I listen to Zen Parenting Radio because you'll feel outstanding. |
| 0:15.1 | And I always remember our motto, which is the best predictor of a child's well-being as a parent's self-understanding. |
| 0:21.4 | On today's show, we did, uh, we celebrated our 700th podcast by going over like some |
| 0:27.9 | foundational stuff for Zen Parenting Radio, specifically our vision or mission statement, |
| 0:34.6 | our grounding forces and a whole bunch of other stuff. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | It was kind of like for somebody who's never heard us before, it might be a good podcast to listen |
| 0:43.7 | to. |
| 0:44.0 | For somebody who's been with us a long time, I still think it would probably be helpful. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.7 | I kind of thought my intention was to make something that other people could share because |
| 0:53.1 | people are like, well, I want to share your podcast with people, but I can't explain what it's about. |
| 0:57.5 | And I get that. |
| 0:58.1 | So we made a... |
| 0:59.1 | So just remember 700 and then go to our 700th and share that. |
| 1:02.2 | So this is kind of part two of that because there's a bunch of stuff that I didn't get to. |
| 1:06.9 | And we're just going to riff because that's pretty much all we do on this podcast is riff. |
| 1:12.2 | What's the definition of riff? |
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