Explore every episode of the podcast Upbringing
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| LIVE Q&A SERIES // How can we teach kids to make good choices? It's actually our super power tool... | 15 Nov 2023 | 00:48:09 | |
When mistakes are judged, shamed and connected to child’s worth + belonging (conditional teaching): ✔️Kids learn to feel shame when they naturally struggle When mistakes neutrally explored and NOT connected to child’s worth + belonging (unconditional teaching): ✨Kids learn to feel safe when they struggle and grow Gah! We’re all trying to give ourselves grace, patience and love for all the “messing up” we’re doing as adults + parents. ✨Can we try to extend those same things to our kids as they learn and grow, too? Rather than instinctually repeating the inherited phrasing that was passed down to us from generations before, we give you permission to lean into your kids’ learning moments with the very skills you hope to teach them: curiosity, empathy, humor + innovation — a concerted effort to focus on the NEEDS vs the BEHAVIORS. Need a little support? Visit our shop + choose the support that works right now for your family! ✨ Downloadable pdf guides for calm bodies, big feelings + sibling conflict The Upbringing Collective– our coaching + community membership– is open for enrollment on a sliding scale! You’ll receive: ✔️ An inclusive, secure online forum to connect with like-minded caregivers across the globe Ready to move this party off social media to spot where we can stay connected, build skills and have some fun?! 😃😃Join us to show up + grow up! LEARN MORE HERE, and reach out with any questions…. We can’t wait to meet you. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| LIVE Q&A SERIES // Misbehavior vs stress behavior + last chance for discount in the Upbringing Collective! | 28 Oct 2023 | 00:46:40 | |
We're all stressed! Tune in to learn the 3 tools we use for stress de-escalation in the moment and rhe 4 ways we examine stressful situations or conflict to reduce disconnect and meet needs between us and our kids -- to feel. better and do better all around! Are you motivated to master the mindset + learn shame-free, consent-based tools to overcome challenges with your sensitive, strong-willed and/or neurodivergent kid?✨You’re not alone!
Enrollment is open at the $25 founder's rate until 10/31! 🎉 It includes: ✔️ An inclusive, secure online forum to connect with like-minded caregivers across the globe We can help you: ⋓ Understand your kids’ brain so you can stop yelling “WHY?!” Ready to move this party off social media to spot where we can stay connected, build skills and have some fun?! 😃😃Join us to show up + grow up! | |||
| LIVE Q&A SERIES // Parenting with judgy family - 20 phrases to explain conscious parenting, set boundaries + advocate for your sensitive, spirited + neurodiverse child | 10 Dec 2022 | 00:41:48 | |
Are you motivated to master the mindset + learn shame-free, consent-based tools to overcome challenges with your sensitive + strong-willed kid?✨You’re not alone!
✨ Downloadable pdf guides for calm bodies, big feelings and sibling conflict The Upbringing Collective– our new coaching + community membership– is NOW OPEN for enrollment! 🎉 It includes: ✔️ An inclusive, secure online forum to connect with like-minded caregivers across the globe Ready to move this party off social media to spot where we can stay connected, build skills and have some fun?! 😃😃Join us to show up + grow up! LEARN MORE HERE, and reach out with any questions…. We can’t wait to meet you. 💚🧡
Relevant Links: - Amber Okamura, Upbringing’s Artist - Mary Schroeder, Upbringing’s Letterer - Alex Olavarria, our producer, musician, editor + husband/brother in law
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| GUEST SERIES // H+K on Not Your Mother's Podcast - Teaching kids consent | 19 Oct 2020 | 00:46:35 | |
Before launching this next season, we wanted to highlight a handful of favorite podcasts we’ve been guests on recently. We speak with some amazing folks about Upbringing, our mission and approach in practicing powers beyond control when it comes to daily discipline with our kids! Not Your Mother’s Podcast is a top-rated show hosted by Sonnet & Veronica, two mothers who have sought some of the best experts in their fields to discuss the unspoken parts of motherhood, giving actionable insights and support that parents can immediately implement in their life. We loved chatting with them about our power as parents, why we created the RESIST Approach and the incredible opportunity to raise kids with consent awareness and skills. We discuss how Upbringing began, the unconscious hypocrisy we discovered when our daughters were toddlers, and how supporting our kids’ body awareness and autonomy is a critical aspect to raising the next generation. We also unpack and walk through some specific ways we can honor our kids’ inherent Freedoms, doing WITH rather than TO them during daily caregiving challenges. From bathtime to diapering to car seats to dressing, we unpack how we can practice and promote the concept of consent. Fun stuff! We hope you enjoy our conversation on Not Your Mother’s Podcast as much as we did! Head on over to NotYourMothersPodcast.com to learn more, and check out our shownotes to get more details on our conversation and Sonnet & Veronica’s podcast links. Here we go… Not Your Mother’s Podcast Website: https://notyourmotherspodcast.co Not Your Mother’s Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notyourmotherspodcast/ Not Your Mother’s Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/notyourmotherspodcast | |||
| GUEST SERIES // H+K on Find The Magic Podcast - Supporting kids' resistance | 12 Oct 2020 | 01:09:49 | |
Before launching this next season of Upbringing, we’d like to share a handful of favorite podcast episodes we’ve been interviewed on recently. For the next few weeks, tune in as we connect with inspiring parenting communities about our radical mission to practice powers beyond control when it comes to daily discipline! Find the Magic is a top-rated podcast hosted by three mothers who aspire to help cultivate meaningful family connections through unconditional love, respect and wholehearted awareness. They offer tips and strategies to create peace, authenticity and self-love in families, and we really enjoyed chatting with them about the beauty and necessity of kids’ resistance and how we can bravely work with- rather than against- it to empower the next generation. We talk in broad terms about the beauty of growing up alongside our kids, our power + privilege as parents, and why getting aware of and supporting our kids’ personal freedoms is critical. We also expand on how we can sensitively support specific daily challenges like sibling conflict, toothbrushing resistance, spirited kids in public and chore resistance using the RESIST Approach. Fun stuff! We hope you enjoy our conversation on Find The Magic as much as we did! Head on over to www.FindTheMagic.co to learn more, and check out this episode’s show notes to get more details on our conversation. Here we go… Find the Magic Website: https://www.findthemagic.co Find the Magic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findthemagicpodcast/ Felica Allen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/felicaallen/ Taralyn Griffin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taralyngriffin/ Find the Magic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/findthemagicpodcast | |||
| PARENTING FOR SANITY + SOCIAL CHANGE // Season Wrap Up | 24 Aug 2020 | 00:46:55 | |
Today we recap our podcast season and explore 10 ways we are attempting to parent for sanity and social change through our discipline. We laugh, we cry, we lean in… join us! Relevant Links: - Our Freedoms Model Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RESIST Q&A // My kids resist screen time limits and I’m at a loss | 10 Aug 2020 | 00:49:47 | |
Today we hear from a parent who is at the end of her rope with battles over escalating screen time with her two sons, age 6 and 10. How can we set limits without over-controlling, pulling the parent card or getting intense pushback to the rules? We explore power, control, attunement, independent play, family agreements, loving limits, and some alternatives to screen time itself.
Today’s episode shoutout is the Raising Rebels Podcast, hosted by Noleca Radway. Each episode features courageous conversations with real parents who are encouraging their children to be fully themselves in a society that doesn’t always celebrate them. Raising Rebels tackles everything from sexuality and race, to co-parenting and money, all with the goal of raising liberated children. Visit www.raisingrebelspod.com to become a patron, and follow Noleca on instagram @raisingrebelspod. Learn more in our show notes! Relevant Links:
Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RESIST Q&A // My spirited kid verbally abuses us and I’m worried | 03 Aug 2020 | 00:48:35 | |
Today we hear from a parent who is exhausted from navigating the persistent frustrations, anger and big feelings of her spirited daughter. She worries about the possibility of her daughter ALWAYS being like this, as well as the impact of her big outbursts on the wellbeing and behavior of her younger brother. We explore temperaments, stress, kids’ brains, boundaries, empathy, acceptance and why OUR BELIEFS ARE EVERYTHING. We also chat ways to lean in to our kids’ big feelings, rudeness, harsh words, anger and frustration with bravery, boundaries, empathy and the understanding that IT’S ALL GOOD. We laugh, we cry, we lean in… join us! Today’s episode shoutout is The Parenting Decolonized podcast, which shines a light on how colonization has impacted the Black family structure and explores ways to use conscious parenting as activism against white supremacy. Host and conscious parenting coach Yolanda Wiliams and her guests discuss how to raise liberated Black children without breaking their spirits. We so far have loved episodes with Trina Greene Browne on Parenting for Liberation, Krissy Coggins of Krissy’s Couch on parenting consciously and Domari Dickinson on how to stop parenting from a place of fear. Visit www.ParentingDecolonized.com to become a patron and to learn more about the podcast and blog… and follow Yolanda on instagram @prntgdcolonized. Learn more in our show notes. Relevant Links: - Our Freedoms Model Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RESIST Q&A // My partner doesn’t discipline respectfully | 27 Jul 2020 | 00:43:22 | |
Today we hear from two parents whose partners are not taking on as much of the learning around kids’ development + brains, respectful parenting and positive discipline solutions as they are themselves. They struggle, like so many of us, to find a way to bring their partners and other caregivers into the work of growing up alongside their kids as well as finding the words to articulate those differences. We explore ways to lean in to these caregiver clashes (as well as conflicts with our children) so we can all be on the same page - open, honest, vulnerable and growing - in these difficult times! We laugh, we cry, we lean in… join us! Today’s episode shoutout is Akilah Richards, host of the Fare of the Free Child podcast -- a lifestyle and parenting podcast about the connection between liberation, learning, and parenting-- particularly among BIPOC communities. Parents, educators, unschoolers and entrepreneurs tune in weekly to connect about unschooling, deschooling, conscious parenting, and self-directedness. Discussions center emotional wellness, learning, parenting, self-care, and self-love. Her highly-anticipated book, Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work (from PM Press), will be released this fall. Visit www.raisingfreepeople.com to pre-order Akilah’s upcoming book, and find Alikah on instagram @fareofthefreechild. Relevant Links: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RESIST Q&A // My kid is overwhelmed with fear + anxiety | 20 Jul 2020 | 00:40:51 | |
Today we hear from a parent whos kid has begun struggling with middle of the night wakeups, then bedtime transitioning, and now daytime apart from parents. We explore ways to lean into his big feelings and resist the urge to fix, minimize, explain away, judge or stop his fears -- but rather to listen, validatek acknowledge, relate to and slowly innovate through a two-way conversation what may be contributing to his discomfort. When we can help our kids attune to themselves, we are breaking cycles of cultural conditioning that don’t serve our child, our family or our world. We laugh, we cry, we lean in… join us! Today’s episode shoutout is the First Name Basis podcast, hosted by Jasmine Bradshaw. Each week, Jasmine provides tools and practical strategies for parents that have helped us better talk to kids about race, religion and culture. Spanning topics like privilege, inclusion and cultural appropriation to historical deep-dives like the untold story of Rosa Parks, Juneteenth or the history of the star-spangled banner, First Name Basis is an incredible resource we are grateful to learn from. We encourage you to broaden your podcast feed to include this inspiring series and support Jasmine on her Patreon community page. Find the First Name Basis Podcast here and Jasmine Bradshaw at on instagram @firstname.basis. Relevant Links: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @up_bringing Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RESIST Q&A // My kid is intensely rude to us all | 13 Jul 2020 | 00:35:06 | |
Today we hear from a parent whose daughter has been intensely rude to her, her mother and her new partner. We explore ways to look beneath behaviors, connect instead of correct, run the RESIST Approach in the moment, and build skills and connection together as a family. When we can help our kids attune to themselves, we are breaking cycles of cultural conditioning that don’t serve our child, our family or our world. We laugh, we cry, we lean in… join us! Today’s episode shoutout is Good Ancestor podcast, hosted by globally respected speaker, anti-racism educator and NYT bestselling author of Me And White Supremacy, Layla Saad. Her interview series with change-makers and culture-shifters explores what it means to be a good ancestor. We loved her recent episode with Candace Braithwaite of Make Motherhood Diverse, Episode 23 with Kimberly Seals Allers on Birth Without Bias and Episode 14 with The Conscious Kid, discussing parenting through a critical race lens. Check out the website at www.laylafsaad.com, and find Layla on instagram @goodancestorpodcast and @laylafsaad. Relevant Links:
Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RESIST Q&A // Is it too late to change my discipline? | 06 Jul 2020 | 00:29:52 | |
Today we hear from a parent who is concerned her 4 year old’s brain is wired to react and respond in fear and people pleasing because she has used shame in her parenting. Our answer: IT’S NEVER TOO LATE! We explore ways that can help repair our kids’ brains and our connection as we build skills, practice and grow up alongside our kids and one another. The hard stuff is the good stuff. We laugh, we cry, we lean in… join us! This week's shoutout is to Parenting for Liberation: a podcast for Black parents is hosted by author and activist Trina Greene Brown. The podcast’s mission is to cultivate resilient and joyful Black families that are doing the healing work to interrupt historical traumas and intergenerational violence, dismantle harmful narratives about the Black family, and create community that amplifies Black girl magic and Black boy joy. Trina’s brand new book, Parenting For Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children, is now available wherever books are sold. Visit today’s show notes to learn more about Trina Greene Brown’s work and Parenting for Liberation. Check out her website, ParentingForLiberation.org and find Trina on instagram @parentingforliberation. Relevant Links: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
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| FARE OF THE FREE CHILD PODCAST // Akilah Richards "Raider as Ritual" | 15 Jun 2020 | 01:04:04 | |
Today we share a pre-existing episode of one of our favorite podcasts: Fare of The Free Child: “Raider as Ritual” Episode 172, posted originally May 27, 2020! Fare of the Free Child is a lifestyle and parenting podcast about the connection between liberation, learning, and parenting-- particularly among BIPOC communities. In this episode, Akilah speaks with LA-based mother, activist, and entrepreneur Melinda Alexander. They talk about the questions that drive them in the direction of commiting to raising free people and how deschooling and unlearning show up in that experience. In her own experience as a former school teacher, Melinda shares some insights on how a scoolish structure can limit the children in certain contexts. They conclude that partnership and listening are what facilitate an emergent structure. The child is the curriculum and the parents are the facilitators, both are students and teachers! Parents, educators, unschoolers and entrepreneurs tune in weekly to FOTFC to connect about unschooling, deschooling, conscious parenting, and self-directedness. We imagine that Fare of the Free Child will resonate as much as it educates, and we hope that featuring Akilah’s work here will also encourage you to expand and diversify your own reading and podcast queues around parenting and motherhood, sharing her work and others you follow with your communities. We’re excited to chat with host Akilah Richards in an upcoming podcast season when we resume our conversations with artists, activists, writers and beyond. In the meantime, our goal today is to center Akilah's brilliant work and encourage you to follow, listen, learn and support her podcast and upcoming book: Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work. Relevant Links WEBSITE- www.raisingfreepeople.com Fare of the Free Child’s Shownotes Welcome to the fourth Deschooling Release Party (DRP) session, a celebration of our commitment to unlearning oppression in our relationships with children and Self. Volume I was about self-care and this one (Volume II) is about pivoting from fear and panic over into what we’re being guided to do. Melinda Alexander will be joining us to talk about the role in ritual in her mothering. More recently, she and her son Raider, started transitioning from schoolishness to unschooling. “If you travel down a long ass road and find the intersection— of art, feminism, fashion, Buddhism, social justice and motherhood— you’ll find me standing there in a MuMu, having a yard sale, raising money for Black Lives Matter.” – Melinda Alexander Melinda is an LA-based mother, activist, and entrepreneur. Influenced by her parents work as longtime anti-racist, civil rights organizers, both art and social justice kept at her center. After having her baby in a tumultuous transition/divorce, her life changed. The work she does now, which she calls Women’s Work, helps other women find their voice as part of a liberation and unlearning process, “Getting Free”. Melinda is raising Raider, her Black son in an anti-Black power structure, with a feminist, social justice-oriented focus. WHAT WE DISCUSS In her own experience as a former school teacher, Melinda shares some insights on how a scoolish structure can limit the children in certain contexts. Intrinsic value is not possible in a school setting, unless you are completely self-directed. Based on the pursuit of validation (did I do well?), the children have never been given a choice and always have been told what to do, and how to do it. By the time they finish school, they don’t know anything about themselves. They conclude that partnership and listening are what facilitate an emergent structure. The child is the curriculum and the parents are the facilitators, both are students and teachers. Thank you so much for your feedback on episode 170, we are always happy to hear from all of you! We were honoring mothering in its various forms and also launching our family of podcasts.LIBERATION WALK
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| LIVE Q&A SERIES // Screaming kids, resistant kids, kids attacking us + why we use powers beyond control | 20 Oct 2022 | 00:48:00 | |
Are you parenting a sensitive + strong-willed kid that challenges your beliefs, stamina and sanity beyond measure? ✨You’re not alone! The Upbringing Collective– our new coaching + community membership– is NOW OPEN for enrollment! 🎉 It includes: ✔️ An inclusive, secure online forum to connect with like-minded caregivers across the globe
Relevant Links: - Amber Okamura, Upbringing’s Artist - Mary Schroeder, Upbringing’s Letterer - Alex Olavarria, our producer, musician, editor + husband/brother in law
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RAISING REBELS PODCAST // Noleca Radway "I Brought You Into This World..." | 15 Jun 2020 | 00:54:14 | |
Today we share a pre-existing episode of one of our favorite podcasts: Raising Rebels, hosted by Noleca Radway, Episode 3: "I brought you into this world...", posted on June 20, 2019. Raising Rebels is a podcast about oppressed parents raising free children, featuring courageous conversations with real parents who are encouraging their children to be fully themselves in a society that doesn’t always celebrate them. In this episode, Noleca speaks with her three daughters, Glory, Moxie and Blu about their experiences of her evolving discipline as their mother. Noleca is also joined by her friend Jade Verette and her partner and fellow educator Tristan Verette. The three parents discuss how they experienced discipline as kids, what informed their parents’ methods, and how they’re intentionally engaging with it now as parents. Raising Rebels tackles everything from sexuality and race, to co-parenting and money, all with the goal of liberating children. We imagine that Raising Rebels will resonate as much as it educates, and we hope that featuring Noleca’s work here will also encourage you to expand and diversify your own podcast queues around parenting and motherhood… sharing Raising Rebels and others you follow with your communities. We’re excited to chat with host Noleca Radway in an upcoming podcast season when we resume our conversations with artists, activists, writers and beyond. In the meantime, our goal today is to center Noleca’s brilliant work and encourage you to follow, listen, learn and support her podcast. Relevant Links WEBSITE- www.raisingrebelspod.com | |||
| PARENTING IN CAPTIVITY // 10 ways to build solid patterns // spring break episode | 20 Apr 2020 | 00:52:17 | |
When we feel like we're living our own horrifying version of the movie Groundhog Day, it makes dealing with kids big feelings and challenging behaviors pretty torturous. How can we channel the Phil Connors from the last several minutes of the movie, who can lean in and engage with his "new normal" with curiosity, generosity, patience, humor and joy? Today we explore 10 ways we’re working to do just that. The hard stuff is the good stuff. We laugh, we cry, we lean in… join us! Relevant Links + resources that informed this episode: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RESIST Q&A // Caregiver Clashes: Parenting on the same page with partners + caregivers | 13 Apr 2020 | 00:57:03 | |
We’re all going through a tough transition right now as we adjust to life at home… with kids… and work… and for many us, other caregivers. Our unique childhoods, unconscious beliefs and clashing approaches can increase the conflict, which can create stress for us, tension in our relationships and confusion for our kids. We’re all on the hunt for answers, but are beginning to realize that the questions are paramount to progress! Today we explore 10 ways we’re working to better understand and respectfully communicate with the other caregivers in our lives so that these tough times can keep us close instead of push us apart. The hard stuff is the good stuff. We laugh, we cry, we lean in… join us! Relevant Links + resources that informed this episode: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model - Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| FREE TO SPEAK // Support respectful communication, authenticity and emotional intelligence through parenting and discipline | 06 Apr 2020 | 00:54:36 | |
Today we’re back as we explore our kids’ FREEDOM TO SPEAK! Does your kid struggle to speak respectfully? To lean into ‘manners’? To respond when questioned? Hang on as we radically grant our kids the right to speak (gasp) in whatever way comes out naturally. So what’s OUR job during this verbal shitstorm? We explore ways to align our values with our day-to-day interactions. To model our asses off. To interact sensitively to avoid power struggles. To give agency, scaffold skills, and trust in the long game. We swear it's easier than censoring or prompting. Each of these difficult interactions can be a chance for us BOTH to build skills, stay connected, and grow as people and family. Join us to explore our expectations and beliefs around wordplay as we unpack three strategies to sensitively support this critical freedom in our kids. We laugh, we cry, we lean in! Mental Mantras we explore: - “This isn’t about me” Relevant Links + resources that informed this episode: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RESIST Q&A // Sibling conflict // support self awareness, self-regulation + non-violent communication through parenting + discipline | 30 Mar 2020 | 00:52:44 | |
Referee. Hall monitor. Manner police. Supporting our kids through their challenges together can feel like we’re wearing a bunch of crazy-ass hats, and their constant antics push us to yell, threaten, judge and issue consequences. Join us this week to explore a few common moments of sibling conflict that drive us all bonkers -- a toddler hitting the new baby, a 4 yr old fighting with their smaller sib and 8 yr old twins verbally abusing one another!
Relevant Links + resources that informed this episode: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| FREE TO CONTRIBUTE // Support personal responsibility, collaboration + self-motivation in the home | 23 Mar 2020 | 00:39:59 | |
Today we’re back as we explore our kids’ FREEDOM TO CONTRIBUTE! Does your kid struggle to clean up after themself? To pitch in to the household? How can we avoid either 1. Letting it ALL GO or 2. Getting in there so hard it makes contributing to the family FEEL TERRIBLE? Join us to explore the middle way -- The ways we are endeavoring to build skills, positive associations and connection for us ALL. We want our kids to WANT to be a part of the machine that moves the home. We talk about way to align our values with our day-to-day interactions. To model our asses off. To interact sensitively to avoid power struggles. To give agency, scaffold skills, and trust in the long game. Each of these moments is a chance for us BOTH to build skills, stay connected, and grow as people and family. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Mental Mantras we explore: - “We’re playing the long game” Relevant Links + resources that informed this episode:
Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RESIST Q&A // Tantrums in the freedom to feel | 16 Mar 2020 | 00:33:07 | |
Today we explore our kids’ FREEDOM TO FEEL! This is the Q&A wrap-up to our weekly episode where we dive deep into our kids’ (and our!) struggles with big feelings. We explore how tantrums are a gift-- an opportunity to nurture our nervous systems, build emotional intelligence skills and maintain our connection through it all. The big question is HOW can we sensitively support our kids’ big feelings when we ourselves can hardly keep it together? Dig in with us for a deeper understanding of why meltdowns happen, what we can do to support ourselves as well as our kids, and why it’s so critical that we attempt this. We’ll be exploring ways we can align our day-today struggles during kids' big feelings with our true goals for their future and ideals for our best selves, too. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us!
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- Upbringing’s RESIST Approach - Self-regulation / Co-regulation - Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagoski - The Body Keeps The Score by by Bessel van der Kolk - Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne - Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman - Raising Humans by Ross Greene - De-Escalate by Douglas E. Noll - Now Say This by Julie Wright and Heather Sturgeon - Hold Onto Your Kids: Why Parents Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld - The Whole-Brain Child- Dan Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson - The Good News About Bad Behavior by Katherine Reynolds-Lewis - Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B Rosenburg - Amber Okamura, Upbringing’s Artist - Mary Schroeder, Upbringing’s Letterer - Alex Olavarria, our producer, conductor, editor + husband/brother in law Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| FREE TO FEEL // Support emotional intelligence through self-regulation & emotion coaching | 16 Mar 2020 | 00:48:01 | |
Today we’re back as we explore our kids’ FREEDOM TO FEEL! Does your kid struggle with big feelings? Do YOU struggle with their big feelings, not to mention your own? This week we explore how BIG FEELINGS are a gift-- an opportunity to nurture our nervous systems, build emotional intelligence and maintain our connection through it all. How can we sensitively support our kids’ big feelings when we ourselves can hardly keep it together? Dig in with us for a deeper understanding of why meltdowns happen, what we can do to support ourselves as well as our kids, and why it’s so critical that we attempt this. This episode is about WHY and HOW we can be responding to our kids big feelings instead of reacting to them. It’s about taking a HUGE shitty long list of work off our plate and swapping it for two things: bravery and effort. We’ll be exploring ways we can align our day-today struggles during kids big feelings with our true goals for their future and ideals for our best selves, too. We’ll look at how big feelings are a chance for us BOTH to build skills, stay connected, and grow as people and family. And as we confront our conditioning, set goals to break harmful cycles and HEAL we will be, in moments of big feelings, putting our energy where it should be - in loving ourselves and our kids. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Mental Mantras we explore:
- There's a need beneath the feeling - It’s not an emergency - Gotta find my happy place - I need to make this better, not worse - They just need my support - This will pass Relevant Links + resources that informed this episode:
- Upbringing's Empowerment Episode: We Welcome All Emotions - Eckart Tolle / The Power of Now - Byron Katie / Past, Present & Future - Self-regulation / Co-regulation - Brene Brown / vulnerability, shame, belonging - Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman - Raising Humans by Ross Greene - De-Escalate by Douglas E. Noll - Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagoski - Now Say This by Julie Wright and Heather Sturgeon - Hold Onto Your Kids: Why Parents Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld - The Whole-Brain Child- Dan Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson - Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break The Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage With Life by Stuart Shanker - Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B Rosenburg - Amber Okamura, Upbringing’s Artist - Mary Schroeder, Upbringing’s Letterer - Alex Olavarria, our producer, conductor, editor + husband/brother in law Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
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| RESIST Q&A // Risky play + bored kids resisting solo time in the freedom to play | 09 Mar 2020 | 00:39:14 | |
Today we explore our kids’ FREEDOM TO PLAY! This is the Q&A wrap-up to our weekly episode where we deep dive into our kids struggles with independent play. This week, we explore why PLAY is being proven to be a gift -- an opportunity for development of self-esteem, socialization, autonomy, creativity and confidence for our kids. How can we balance our responsibility to keep our kids happy and connected to us while ALSO nurturing independent play skills? Dig in with us for a deeper understanding of how kids learn best and why what interests them as a unique individuals matters when it comes to developing their brains and hearts! Freedom to play trusts that kids can and should take the lead in these realms of growth and exploration through play with our supportive presence. We talk about WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, with two siblings exploring risky playground time and a kid who is struggling to play independently at home. We also touch on flipping some unhelpful / culturally conditioned beliefs and explore all the ways we’re endeavoring to parent beyond instinct and conventional wisdom -- with awareness, authenticity and alignment. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Mental Mantras we explore:
Relevant Links + resources that informed this episode: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| FREE TO PLAY // Support independent play, confidence and creativity through parenting + discipline | 09 Mar 2020 | 00:47:48 | |
Today we’re back as we explore our kids’ FREEDOM TO PLAY! Does your child struggle with independent play? Do YOU struggle with the sometimes crazy, messy and worrisome aspects of their playtime? This week, we explore why PLAY is being proven to be a gift -- an opportunity for development of self-esteem, socialization, autonomy, creativity and confidence for our kids. How can we balance our responsibility to keep our kids happy and connected to us while ALSO nurturing independent play skills? Dig in with us for a deeper understanding of how kids learn best and why what interests them as a unique individuals matters when it comes to developing their brains and hearts! Freedom to play trusts that kids can and should take the lead in these realms of growth and exploration through play with our supportive presence. We talk about WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, flip some unhelpful / culturally conditioned beliefs and explore all the ways we’re endeavoring to parent beyond instinct and conventional wisdom -- with awareness, authenticity and alignment. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Mental Mantras we explore: - Observe more, do less Relevant Links + resources that informed this episode:
Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| LIVE Q&A SERIES // Tame Your Triggers, feel less flooded, approach your kids without losing it! | 08 Oct 2022 | 00:56:20 | |
Every feel flooded? Triggered? Too emotionally hijacked to respond calmly to yourkids' big feelings and challenging behaviors? Join our conversation with Jen Lumanlan of Your Parenting Mojo to talk about ways to calm our minds and bodies so we don't keep losing our shit on our kids! Jen explores ways we can stop cycles of trauma and begin healing through our parenting practices. Her Taming Your Triggers Workshop is LIVE! This is the course we ALL need to be able to lean in with calm clarity to support our kids through their big feelings and challenging behaviors. CLICK TO LEARN MORE! Sliding scale pricing available -- Doors close this coming Wednesday, October 12th! Taming Your Triggers is a research-based approach that provides a solid foundation of tools and provides support, a nonjudgmental presence, and even lasting friendship through the community. When you join the Taming Your Triggers workshop, you'll learn: ✔️What is a trigger, and how to identify yours ✔️How to help your child WANT to cooperate with you, so you don't have to lose your cool ✔️Where triggers come from - examining previously experienced trauma, as well as the stresses of daily life ✔️How to use mindfulness (in just a few minutes a day!) to help you avoid being triggered in the first place, and respond more effectively when you are occasionally still triggered ✔️How to recognize when you're in frame of mind that makes you susceptible to feeling triggered, and take specific steps to make yourself more trigger-proof CLICK TO LEARN MORE! Sliding scale pricing available -- Doors close Wednesday October 12th! Relevant Links: - Amber Okamura, Upbringing’s Artist - Mary Schroeder, Upbringing’s Letterer - Alex Olavarria, our producer, musician, editor + husband/brother in law
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| RESIST Q&A // Picky eating + bedtime resistance in the freedom to nourish | 02 Mar 2020 | 00:35:30 | |
Today we’re back as we explore our kids’ FREEDOM TO NOURISH. This is the Q&A wrap-up to our weekly episode where we deep dive into struggles with bedtime, mealtime, hygiene, diapers and beyond -- challenges that can lead us to over-control and undermine our kids’ sacred somatic intuition (a connection to their own bodies). How can we balance our responsibility to keep them clean, fed, rested and happy while ALSO finding ways that they can become better aware of and connected to the processes themselves? It’s the middle way. Freedom to nourish trusts that kids can and should take the lead in these realms of nourishing self-care rituals with our supportive presence. We talk about WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE with a kid refusing to eat vegetables and a kid who continues to come out of their room at bedtime... We also explore the myriad ways we’re endeavoring to parent beyond instinct and conventional wisdom -- with awareness, authenticity and alignment. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Mental Mantras we explore: - They know their body best - Lead with curiosity Relevant Links: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| FREE TO NOURISH // Support body attunement + healthy value-building through discipline + parenting | 02 Mar 2020 | 00:29:50 | |
Today we’re back as we explore our kids’ FREEDOM TO NOURISH. Struggles with bedtime, mealtime, hygiene, diapers and beyond can lead us to over-control and undermine our kids’ sacred somatic intuition -- a connection to their own bodies. How can we balance our responsibility to keep them clean, fed, rested and happy while ALSO finding ways that they can become better aware of and connected to the processes themselves? Freedom to nourish trusts that kids can and should take the lead in these realms of nourishing self-care rituals with our supportive presence. We talk about WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, flip some unhelpful / culturally conditioned beliefs and explore all the ways we’re endeavoring to parent beyond instinct and conventional wisdom -- with awareness, authenticity and alignment. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us!
Relevant Links: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model Today’s episode is supported by A Kid’s Book About- a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging and empowering conversations between kids and their grownups. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| FREE TO STRUGGLE // support grit, perseverance + confidence-building through parenting + discipline | 24 Feb 2020 | 01:16:41 | |
Today we’re back with a new season of the Upbringing podcast! Join us this week on the as we explore our kids’ FREEDOM TO STRUGGLE. They do it a lot. It can feel like shit. But it doesn’t have to! Join us as we learn from the best and the brightest organizational psychologists, authors, researchers and brainiacs about things like grit, perseverance, confidence, and curiosity -- and why the WAY we approach our kids as they flip out, cry, worry, whine, misbehave (ie. STRUGGLE) matters a whole heck of a lot. We’ll share our personal tales of hilarious parenting hardship from the week, flip some common beliefs on struggle and explore all the ways we’re endeavoring to parent beyond instinct and conventional wisdom -- with awareness, authenticity and alignment. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Mental Mantras we explore: - They need help Relevant Links: - Upbringing’s Freedoms Model
Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| TWINTALK: Our story + season recap/preview! | 21 Dec 2019 | 00:45:14 | |
Today we wrap up the season until the new year! Join us for some reflections on the last few months of episodes and to hear some exciting changes that begin when we start back up! We also dive a bit into the origin story of Upbringing… how we began to lean into learning, the crazy toddlers who helped us to redefine their resistance, our angle on feminist parenting, the cultural conditioning of the patriarchy and why to we’re trying our damndest to strive for alignment as parents and people. We have SO much gratitude for being here on this insane adventure alongside you. Thank you. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant Links: - Upbringing’s 12 Empowerments This episode is supported by The Rajah Press, an online boutique that celebrates life's adventures through fine jewelry. Visit www.therajahpress.com and enter code Upbringing for 15% off your order. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| CONVO: Alexa Wilding, writer & cancer mom // twins, trauma & silver linings | 02 Dec 2019 | 01:00:39 | |
Today we have the honor to connect with the unwillingly enlightened, temporarily brilliant, alchemical cancer mom Alexa Wilding. She is a musician, writer and mother of 7 year old sons West and Lou, who was recently diagnosed with cancer for the second time. This is a special episode in so many ways -- and represents more than just Alexa’s family story. Her words weave a golden thread, a magical life-line that connects us to what matters most in life and how we can all be united by it. It is also a rare view into the prismatic, internal life of a woman ascending -- and the wise and poetic lessons she’s learned along the way. In listening to Alexa’s story, we are awakened... Better able to lean in bravely to the scary plot twists of our own lives AND to leave our fear and egos behind as we care for others who are suffering. Join us to hear her candid, humorous and magical lessons about surrender, patience, true love, silver linings, loneliness, past selves, perspective, clarity, dignity, and acceptance. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Relevant links: - Alexa's instagram Today’s episode is supported by Daughter of the Land- a skincare line created using clean, organic, fair-trade ingredients and created with sustainability in mind. Support Upbringing by visiting Daughter of the Land! Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| TWINTALK: We’re Not Done Yet / Empowerment | 25 Nov 2019 | 00:40:47 | |
Today on the podcast we explore why and how we’re working to grow up alongside our kids. We examine the pressure-filled impostor syndrome of new parenthood, the power of the growth mindset, the weight of our egos, and ways to play in the gray with our our learning as well as our kids’. When we can respect our kids as equals, then we can move forward, hand in hand, growing together. When we can show vulnerability, resilience, awareness and humor in our mistakes and successes, they are given that permission, too. And when we can say “I’m not done yet”, then we can all feel brave enough to ask “what’s next?” We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant Links: - Upbringing’s 12 Empowerments WE’RE NOT DONE YET- We may be grownups, but we aren’t done growing. We want our journey as parents to be about progress, not perfection, so we begin each day fresh with the acknowledgement that we have just as much growing up to do as our kids. Today’s episode is supported by Tradlands- high-quality, sustainably crafted essentials for women, inspired by classic menswear. Visit www.tradlands.com and enter code Upbringing15 for 15% off your purchase. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| CONVO: Darcy Lockman, author & clinical psychologist // the mother load, marriage & gender | 18 Nov 2019 | 01:05:21 | |
Today we connect with Darcy Lockman, clinical psychologist and author of All The Rage, a book that explores how egalitarian relationships become traditional ones when children are introduced to the household. We loved connecting with Darcy about the mother load, the myth of maternal instinct, why we struggle with relationship expectations, the complications of socialization vs biology, and how we can best raise children of any gender to be both communal helpers and independent doers.
Relevant links: - Darcy Lockman’s website Today’s episode is supported by Artifact Uprising, a sister-owned company helping us honor the meaningful moments in our lives through printed photo gifts, books, and more. Their beautiful, minimalist products are made from recycled papers, reclaimed materials -- all in the USA. Learn more about Artifact Uprising and support Upbringing by visiting their website our Partner’s page at www.upbringing.co/partners.
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| TWINTALK: We Play The Long Game / Empowerment | 11 Nov 2019 | 00:33:45 | |
Today on the podcast we explore how to play the long game with our kids. We examine the four main factors that hinder our perspective and trust in the process: fear, pressure, impatience and ignorance. This episode helped us set our sights on embracing our children for who they are and how they’re learning, growing and showing up RIGHT NOW. We talk about the Resist Approach and how it’s helping us lean in and scaffold skill-building with our kids around tough situations like manners, meals, hygiene, and chores. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant links: - Upbringing’s 12 Empowerments This episode is supported by The Rajah Press, an online boutique that celebrates life's adventures through fine jewelry. Visit www.therajahpress.com and enter code Upbringing for 15% off your order. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| CONVO: Theresa Thorn, podcaster & author // gender identity & letting go | 04 Nov 2019 | 00:59:26 | |
Today we connect with Theresa Thorn, the co-host of the parenting humor podcast One Bad Mother and the author of It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity for children. We loved exploring the ways in which gender can be a unique and personal expression of self for all of us… Additionally, how this perspective can build momentum in dismantling our binary thinking and unconscious fears/expectations of who are kids are and who they will become. Join us!
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Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| TWINTALK: We Meet Kids Where They Are / Empowerment | 28 Oct 2019 | 01:18:47 | |
Today on the podcast we explore how to meet our kids where they are. To respect them as unique individuals, to open our communication, to embrace our vulnerability and to examine our expectations. This episode helped us set our sights on becoming more aware, more able to seek acceptance, and ultimately, more able to trust in the process. Which feels fucking impossible most of the time. Right? Join us to deep dive a bit into our beliefs, expectations and tough interactions with our kids. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant links: - Upbringing's Empowerment Episodes
Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.
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| LIVE Q&A SERIES // One Community Member's Story: Life with a sensory-seeking child + their adventures with Upbringing! | 23 Sep 2022 | 00:41:33 | |
Are you parenting a sensitive + strong-willed kid that challenges your beliefs, stamina and sanity beyond measure? ✨ You’re not alone! We loved connecting with Amy of @grow.up.ig about her experience parenting a “lightning bolt kid” and her evolution through small group coaching with us! The Upbringing Collective– our new coaching + community membership– is NOW OPEN for enrollment! 🎉 It includes: ✔️ An inclusive, secure online forum to connect with like-minded caregivers across the globe
Relevant Links: - Amber Okamura, Upbringing’s Artist - Mary Schroeder, Upbringing’s Letterer - Alex Olavarria, our producer, musician, editor + husband/brother in law
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| CONVO: LaTonya Yvette, stylist & blogger // trauma, style & storytelling | 21 Oct 2019 | 01:00:47 | |
Today we connect with LaTonya Yvette, a Brooklyn-based stylist, blogger and author of Woman of Color, a memoir and lifestyle guide full of moving essays, gorgeous photos, and practical style and beauty advice. We loved connecting with LaTonya about what coming of age means to her, the ways she’s helping her children look at their differences and scars as both beautiful and empowering, and the ways she’s healed from trauma through storytelling, color, and fashion. Join us! Relevant links:
Aftershow + Ask Us Anything links: Anne of Green Gables Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| TWINTALK: We Love Without Condition / Empowerment | 14 Oct 2019 | 01:06:23 | |
Today on the podcast we explore how to separate our kids’ challenging behaviors from their value as human beings. It’s called loving unconditionally -- and it feels fucking impossible most of the time. This episode is all about challenging our beliefs to change our thoughts, behaviors and subsequent interactions with the infuriating, inspiring children in our lives. We talk about power, love, habits, boundaries and communication. We talk about rage, vulnerability, learning and identity. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant links: Upbringing’s 12 Empowerments Today’s episode is supported by Artifact Uprising, a sister-owned company helping us honor the meaningful moments in our lives through printed photo gifts, books, and more. Their beautiful, minimalist products are made from recycled papers, reclaimed materials -- all in the USA. Support Upbringing by visiting www.artifactuprising.com. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| CONVO: Elizabeth Antonia, author & creative director // rhythms, rituals & transitions | 07 Oct 2019 | 01:14:17 | |
Today we connect with Elizabeth Antonia, creative director, designer and author of Early Riser Companion, a family resource filled with songs, rhymes, recipes and ideas for rituals and rhythms to layer into our homes. We loved connecting with Elizabeth about balancing routines with spontaneity, how we can create anchor points of peace throughout our day, the ways mindful transitions can reduce stress and how we can all listen more for magic in the mundane moments. Join us!
Early Riser Companion website
Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| TWINTALK- Join the Upbringing - Recap & Preview | 05 Aug 2019 | 00:52:14 | |
Happy summer! Our last twintalk of the season is for both new and dedicated listeners alike. Join us as we recap the big ah-ha moments from Season 2 of the podcast and spitball the many changes in store as Upbringing evolves... You’ll learn about our new R.E.S.I.S.T approach -- a six step model to navigate challenging moments with our kids -- as well as the 10 Freedoms we aim to honor and respect as we explore this insane parenting adventure. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant links:
Sadie Lincoln convo episode Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| CONVO: KaeLyn Rich, author & activist // consent, gender and resistance | 29 Jul 2019 | 01:01:47 | |
Today on the podcast, we connect with KaeLyn Rich, executive director of Bitch Media, speaker, activist and author of Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution. We loved talking with KaeLyn about teaching our children consent, how to unlearn our implicit biases, and the ways we can respectfully interact with our children (and the world) around gender identity. Relevant links: KaeLyn’s book: Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution Upbringing’s RESIST Approach Today’s Lullabyebye: Don’t Get Me Wrong, by The Pretenders, 1986 (sung by Hannah) Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| TWINTALK: We Take Our Role, Not Ourselves, Seriously / Empowerment | 22 Jul 2019 | 00:46:33 | |
Today on the podcast we explore how to separate what we do from who we are. When approaching a challenge with our children, are we in work-mode or worth-mode? We ponder the values AND limits of titles (even Mom) - how they can both empower and undermine our parenting. Taking our role (and not ourselves) seriously requires we become aware of the way our ego can unwittingly limit our ability to care-give. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant links: Upbringing’s RESIST Approach Today’s Lullabyebye: I Melt With You by Modern English, 1982 (sung by Hannah) Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| CONVO: Taylor Sterling, Glitter Guide founder // true self-care and highly sensitive kids | 15 Jul 2019 | 01:08:32 | |
Today on the podcast we connect with Taylor Sterling, founder and creative director of lifestyle website Glitter Guide and Tired Dreamers Club- a collaborative gathering series that supports women on their creativity and self-care journey. We loved chatting with Taylor about challenging temperaments in our children and the ways in which we can all work toward feeding (instead of depleting) the body mind and spirit of both ourselves and our kids. Join us! Relevant links: Glitter Guide Upbringing’s RESIST Approach Today’s Lullabyebye: You Gotta Be, by Des’ree, 1994 (sung by Hannah) Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| TWINTALK: We Play in the Gray / Empowerment | 08 Jul 2019 | 00:57:35 | |
Today on the podcast we explore the mindset tool we call playing in the gray. We discuss the practice of accepting the as-is, embracing the middle way, and sitting in discomfort long enough to learn from it. Playing in the gray is all about flexible thinking, courage, curiosity and trust…. ultimately a giant improv comedy sketch and an opportunity to create some magic from the mayhem. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant links:
Today’s Lullabyebye: In My Own Mind by Lyle Lovett, 2003 (sung by Hannah) Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| CONVO: Alison Mazurek, blogger & designer // intentional living with less | 01 Jul 2019 | 00:53:13 | |
Today on the podcast we speak with Alison Mazurek, small-living expert, designer and blogger of 600 Square Foot and a Baby. We loved connecting with Alison about the gift of experience over objects, how to ask ourselves what we can live without, the upsides to tight-knit living, and the ways in which she is trying to let her children express who they are, not who they think they’re expected to be. Join us! Relevant links: 600 Square Foot Blog Today’s Lullabyebye: Handle With Care, by The Traveling Wilburys, 1988 (sung by Kelty) Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| TWINTALK: We Know Our Influence / Empowerment | 25 Jun 2019 | 00:49:22 | |
Today on the podcast we explore one of our favorite parenting super powers: modeling. We talk ways to support our children’s learning through our OWN awareness / growth and list our favorite ways to sensitively wield our power without disempowering our kids. What began as a tool to influence our kids’ behavior has become a huge life lesson for US in humility, transparency, and values - an opportunity for a win-win all around. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant links: This is Water - David Foster Wallace Today’s Lullabyebye: Invisible Touch by Genesis (sung by Hannah) Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| LIVE Q&A SERIES // 40th Birthday Ask Us Anything! Transitions, freedoms, resistance + "successful + productive parenting" | 17 Sep 2022 | 01:03:47 | |
Curious about how to align your progressive values with your daily parenting practices? The Upbringing Collective Coaching Community is open for enrollment -- Sept. 19th - Sept 25th! Together, we’ll: ✔️Reframe our kids + our role based on the current research ✔️Learn shame-free, consent-based tools to reduce conflict ✔️Share challenges + wins in community with like-minded folks ✔️Find confidence + joy alongside our sensitive, strong-willed kids ✔️Examine how our childhoods impact our current parenting ✔️Examine how our childhoods impact our current parenting
Relevant Links: - Amber Okamura, Upbringing’s Artist - Mary Schroeder, Upbringing’s Letterer - Alex Olavarria, our producer, musician, editor + husband/brother in law
Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline. | |||
| CONVO: Jessica Murnane, podcaster & author // gratitude, grief & adoption | 17 Jun 2019 | 01:08:30 | |
Today on the podcast we speak with Jessica Murnane, author and creator of the One Part Plant movement, host of the One Part Podcast, and mother to four year old son, Sid. We loved connecting with Jessica about how to take the judgements out of food conversations with our kids, trauma, grief, adoption, and how slowing down can help us integrate both as parents and people. Join us! Today's episode is supported by S.W. Basics (@swbasics), a natural skincare line, keepin’ it simple with 5 ingredients or less. Visit www.swbasics.com and save 15% w/ discount code: Upbringing Relevant links: MBSR course Today’s Lullabyebye: Rollercoaster, by Bleachers (sung by Hannah) Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| TWINTALK - We Welcome All Emotions / Empowerment | 11 Jun 2019 | 01:10:16 | |
Today on the podcast we explore emotions, empathy and self-regulation in both our kids and ourselves. Though its easier said than done to welcome and support the ENTIRE spectrum of emotions, we discuss how and why it’s well worth the effort to lean into the rainbow. We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant links: GOOP Podcast - How to minimize stress and avoid burnout Today’s Lullabyebye: True Colors, by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly (sung by Hannah) Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||
| CONVO: Lindsay Meyer-Harley, activist & shopkeeper // power, presence and parenthood | 03 Jun 2019 | 00:53:27 | |
Today on the podcast we speak with Lindsay Meyer-Harley- owner of children’s shop Darling Clementine and founder of Still We Rise, an instagram- based community auction that offers goods and experiences to raise money for amazing causes. Six auctions in, the Still We Rise community of artists, shopkeepers and creatives has raised over 300 thousand dollars for organizations like the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Moms Demand Action and the Natural Resources Defense Council. You can learn more about Lindsay at and on instagram @lindsaymeyerharley or @shopdarlingclementine. Join the community this June 12th - 19th by shopping Auction #7 on instagram @_stillwerise -- we will be raising money for the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Network. Today’s episode is supported by Tradlands- high-quality, sustainably crafted essentials for women, inspired by classic menswear. Visit www.tradlands.com and enter code Upbringing15 for 15% off your purchase. Visit our Partners Page to learn more! Relevant links:
Today’s Lullabyebye: If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out, by Cat Stevens (sung by Kelty) Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co | |||