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The Best We Could: A Parenting Manual for Our Kids

The Best We Could: A Parenting Manual for Our Kids

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We believe that the pressures of modern society causes many parents to go through the day just looking to get by without losing it. When there is disconnection and frustration between parents and children everyone suffers.

When parents take the time to understand their default parenting style and how that relates to how they were parented, families come alive. Parents reconnect with their children and children find the anchor they crave in this tumultuous world.

This podcast is an account of our family’s operating manual. It serves to show our children why we made the decisions we did. Our goal is to preparing them for the life they want to lead (and identifying what kind of life that would be). We strive to live by the phrase “we did the best we could with the knowledge we had.”

Here is why:

For better or worse, kids repeat the parenting patterns they experienced as children. We explain the parenting decisions we made and their intended outcomes to equip our children with an understanding of their default behaviors so they can better navigate the world and find success in life…
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Recent Episodes

  • 022: The Impact of Unrecognized Family Patterns, and Giving Our Kids the Awareness to Break Them

    6 years ago

  • 021: Mistaking Kindness for Weakness – how we talk to our kids about kindness while cautioning them about being taken advantage of

    6 years ago

  • Episode 020: What got us here won’t get you there… An interview with my dad on growing up as an immigrant in the 60’s

    6 years ago

  • Episode 019: Holiday and birthday gifting with our kids: Why we (try to) focus on giving experiences vs toys

    6 years ago

  • Episode 018: Impacts and lessons of social ostracism on parents and kids

    6 years ago

  • Episode 17: How we talk to our kids (and ourselves) about Imposter Syndrome

    6 years ago

  • Episode 16: Conflict Over Screen Time Leads to Meaningful Conversations

    6 years ago

  • Episode 15: The Impacts of Playing Favorites With Your Kids – an example from our family

    6 years ago

  • Episode 14: Nuances about kids and holiday visit behavior – for kids and adults

    6 years ago

  • Episode 13: A Thanksgiving Discussion On Parenting and Gratitude With My Wife

    6 years ago