This week, we’re discussing all things Parenting and continuing our series on Holly Pierlot’s book, A Mother’s Rule of Life. (The series started back in Episode 50, so start there if you’re just joining us!)
Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode:
- Sharing about our decision to start homeschooling next year: While You Were Folding Episode 055: If I Ran the Zoo: Our Decision to Homeschool
- The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
- Other parenting experts I’d point you to:
- Janet Lansbury – Unruffled podcast, No Bad Kids
- Dr. Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson – co-authors of The Whole-Brain Child and The Power of Showing Up, he wrote No Drama Discipline
- Dr. Meg Meeker – Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker, many books
- Dr. Laura Markham, creator of ahaparenting.com and author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
- Working Out Your Essentials:
- Hygiene
- Clothing
- personal prayer
- Sports
- Hobbies
- Friends
- Catechism
- Sacraments: Mass, Confession
- school/homework
- sleep, naps
- For each essential item, decide:
- What supplies or materials are needed
- Where belongings go
- Put it into a schedule (decide with older children)
- Make charts and post them
- When can I help the kids?
- When you hit a speed bump:
- Confusion → more teaching and modeling
- Complaining → revise expectations
- Lacking motivation → something to look forward to
- Doing things grudgingly → importance of what they’re doing, teach to “offer it up”
- Sneaking away → make a freedom-within-limits choice (example: do the thing at another time)
- Sloppy work → stories of saints, logical consequences, suspension of privileges
- Keep an eye on how you are behaving
- Involved enough? Too much? Loving and patient? Consistent? Supervising? Teaching and modeling skills and virtues?
Next time: A Mother’s Rule of Life: 5th P, Provider
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Questions for you
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- Did you have the appropriate respect for parenting before you became a parent? What part of parenting is proving to be the most difficult for you? Have you brought your parenting challenges before God and asked Him for wisdom and help? Is there a mom a step or two ahead of you that you could meet with on a regular basis for some mentoring?
- Are your children’s essential needs being met? Does your family need to make some changes in your schedule to meet everyone’s needs? Is your day-to-day schedule reflecting your family’s values?
- Are you guilty of unrealistic parenting expectations? Do you resent “tending the garden” when it comes to parenting matters like discipline or teaching skills (like housework)?
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