What does the word parent mean to you? All words are sounds with our own learned meanings attached to them. This podcast is an invitation for you to reinvent yourself—or not—by considering what a parent truly is and what kind of parent you want to be. And then you make it happen—little by little. The simple exercise in this podcast will help.

Get out a pen and paper and write The Kind of Parent I Want To Be on one side and The Kind of Parent I Am on the other. Then sit quietly for a minute and see that all the descriptions and behaviors under the list The Kind of Parent I am, if they’re negative, have never once delivered what they promised. Being overly excitable, hollering, hitting, judging, criticizing, etc. have never once delivered what they promised to.

This helps us correct our own parenting behaviors—the ones we don’t like!

1:06 The word ‘parent’ is a sound that has meanings attached to it.

1:35 Get out a pen and paper and make and label two columns: The Kind of Parent I Am, and The Kind of Parent I Want To Be.

1:45 Bless yourself for each thing you write under the column (if it’s negative): The Kind of Parent I Am. Say and feel the truth of the statement, I matter more than that parenting mistake. And then make it right as best as you can.

1:53 The main purpose is to show you what you can achieve as a parent.

1:10 Ask the simple question, of these negative ways of being in the world, “Has this behavior of mine ever delivered what it promised?”  

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