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The latest insights and ponderings on issues facing modern parents and tips for finding peace.

Real World Peaceful Parenting Lisa Smith | Creating Your Parental Job Description
01
Mar

Ep #112: Creating Your Parental Job Description

Many of us consider our identity to be directly linked to what we do, the roles we play, or what we have done in the past. When the things that we do change, either by will or by circumstances out of our control, we often feel lost. We struggle to shed the old identity and...
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Real World Peaceful Parenting Lisa Smith | Why Sometimes Our Own Parents Need Boundaries
22
Feb

Ep #111: Why Sometimes Our Own Parents Need Boundaries

Many of you are parenting in a very different way than the way you were parented. And when your parents or in-laws don’t agree with your parenting, they can feel invited to weigh in and share their unwanted, unwarranted opinion. It leaves many of us doing what we’ve always done: comply, avoid, placate, and enable...
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Real World Peaceful Parenting Lisa Smith | The 3 Step Process to Move from Reactive Parenting to Responsive Parenting
15
Feb

Ep #110: The 3 Step Process to Move from Reactive Parenting to Responsive Parenting

I work with so many parents who have reached a point on their peaceful parenting journey where they can recognize the moments of frustration that are tripping them up and leaving them feeling stuck in anger and dysregulation, as they storm right alongside their kids. There is a right time and a wrong time to...
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Real World Peaceful Parenting Lisa Smith | Breaking the Cycle of Dominant Parenting and Why It’s Important
08
Feb

Ep #109: Breaking the Cycle of Dominant Parenting and Why It’s Important

Do you ever feel trapped in the cycle of resorting to physical and verbal punishment when your kids’ behavior pushes you to your limit? Do you feel like you are at the end of your rope with no option to deal with your kids other than to yell? If this sounds familiar and you want...
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Real World Peaceful Parenting with Lisa Smith | Why You Shouldn’t Try to Fix Your Children’s Problems
01
Feb

Ep #108: Why You Shouldn’t Try to Fix Your Children’s Problems

Witnessing your child in pain is one of the hardest things you can experience as a parent. You might think it’s your job as a parent to fix all their problems, fight all their battles, or soothe all their heartaches, and it’s natural to want to rescue your kids from their suffering. But this week,...
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