What's the Best Type of Parenting Style or Philosophy For You?
My New Life
Kate Garlinge
4.7 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Jessica Rolph is joined by Veronica Fernandez, who talks about how she takes advice from various parenting approaches and incorporates the best from each. Veronica discusses philosophies such as Montessori, RIE, and attachment parenting. She also shares with us ways to introduce bilingualism to babies and the benefits of it.
Dr. Veronica Fernandez is a new mom, with a Ph.D. in Developmental and Child Psychology, with a focus on bilingual education.
Key Takeaways:
[1:35] Veronica shares her journey from preschool to Ph.D.
[3:38] How to incorporate different philosophies in parenting your baby.
[5:23] Veronica shares how she used the Montessori philosophy to create a prepared environment for her newborn baby.
[6:19] The essence of the Montessori approach.
[8:33] The Montessori approach characterizes by giving children the chance of manipulating materials such as glass.
[9:38] The RIE Method is about respectful parenting.
[13:45] Being in physical proximity to a child is always beneficial.
[14:11] What does not resonate with Veronica about Attachment parenting?
[17:19] When the focus is on playing and interaction, the opportunities for teaching will show up spontaneously.
[18:56] Be present and playful in your interactions with children
[19:13] Introducing a second language to babies
[20:05] Children learn more by exposure than to intentional teaching.
[21:58] The benefits of bilingualism.
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| 0:00.0 | Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby. |
| 0:12.8 | A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Jessica Rolfe, and this is my new life, a love every podcast. |
| 0:29.2 | Attachment parenting, the Rye method, Montessori, Waldorf, so many philosophies out there. |
| 0:35.3 | How do we navigate them all? Do we choose one and run with it, |
| 0:38.9 | or cherry pick the very best advice from each one? A task that seems honestly overwhelming, |
| 0:44.9 | especially for a new parent. One new mom with a PhD in developmental and child psychology |
| 0:50.3 | reached out to me as a love every customer. Her perspective is so refreshing. |
| 0:54.9 | I've invited her onto the podcast. |
| 0:57.1 | Dr. Veronica Fernandez is a researcher of bilingual education as well, yet another |
| 1:02.0 | parenting choice to explore. |
| 1:04.7 | Hi, Veronica. |
| 1:05.9 | It is so fun to be with you today. |
| 1:08.3 | I can't believe we met over a DM on Instagram. |
| 1:11.8 | It's so fun. |
| 1:18.7 | Our modern world. Yes. So I wanted to talk to you a little bit more about we had a first conversation and I just was thinking it would be so fun for just so many parents to hear about |
| 1:24.4 | your perspectives. You've got so much wisdom to share. Your own early |
| 1:27.8 | childhood really paved the way for the work that you do now. Can you tell me a little bit about |
| 1:31.8 | how you talk about like from preschool to PhD? Sure. So when I'm in person giving seminars or |
| 1:39.0 | workshops, I always joke and I say that I have 36 years of early childhood experience and people |
| 1:43.7 | look at me kind of funny and wonder how old I am. years of early childhood experience and people look at me kind of |
| 1:44.4 | funny and wonder how old I am, but I'm actually 36. And the reason I say that is because I was in |
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