The Kid Code Playground

If you want your kids to listen, change the energy behind your words. Everyone will benefit.One way to change your energy is to notice how you feel when you speak with your kids. If you’re frustrated, angry, or are lecturing—the feeling of frustration, anger and being lectured is what the child registers and they don’t want to listen.If we speak from a calm place, the child registers that and is able to listen more easily.Learn 3 quick ways to shift your energy to being calmer.When you forget, and speak from a negative place, bless the mistake and make it right!Show Notes:Still not writing show notes. The podcasts are short!

If you could let go of the upset around any problem that arises (your kids act out, the garbage spills all over the floor, someone gives you the you-know-what on the freeway because you accidentally cut them off…) would you let go of it? What would be strong enough to let you let go of the upsets?You are invited to let go of all problems and upsets as they arise because your peace matters more than your problems. When you’re peaceful, it’s easier to solve problems.Show Notes:Have you noticed that I don’t do these anymore because the podcast is four minutes long, max! Listen and learn to love life.  

My wise young granddaughter educated me the other day by saying we need to make more space for kids. She pointed out that we make physical space for them when they’re born but go on treating them like children and then expecting them to have adult responsibilities and emotions.What does it mean to you to give your kids space?Take three minutes to listen to this podcast to provide relief for everyone in the house by making the kind of space that makes for a peaceful household.  

Wouldn’t you love a strategy that keeps you stress-free when encountering difficult people (including your kids)?There is no gain in being difficult.Take three minutes to listen to this podcast to keep yourself calm and rational when others aren’t.  

We are out of our integrity if we don’t pursue what we want and get our own needs met.Kids know what their parents and their peers want for them, but they often don’t know what they want for themselves because they place too much value on seeking approval from one or the other.Decrease stress and increase connection with others in your life and want for others what they want for themselves.Take three minutes to listen to this podcast to change your mindset from “I need others to approve, to: I approve and that’s enough.”  

We wish we didn’t have to, but all of us, including our kids are going to go through tough times, climb what look to be insurmountable mountains and feel like we can’t handle what life is delivering. All of us, including our kids are going to have physical, mental, and emotional bumps in the road, so when they come, use the wise words from a dear cousin of mine to go from overwhelmed to solution oriented.Take two minutes to listen to this podcast to change your mind set in a heartbeat from Why Me?