Connected Parenting
Summary: Connected Parenting shares techniques that therapists use to help parents soothe their child as well as enhance the parent-child bond and is based on the understanding that correcting and guiding behavior works best when it is preceded by and linked to empathy. At the heart of this parenting model is the CALM Technique which helps parents accurately attune to children’s affect and experience. These empathic interactions release reward chemicals in the brain that stimulate positive emotions and increase order and balance in the nervous system. Reward chemicals, including natural opiates, endorphins, and a powerful hormone called oxytocin, reduce and inhibit stress hormones and bathe the brain in positive emotions that ripple through every cell in the body. The benefits of empathy and compassion have a strong base in science that cannot be underestimated. Simply put, it is brain food, the emotional nutrition all of us need, perhaps our children most of all. Although many parenting techniques stress the importance of empathy, Connected Parenting will show you how to use it skillfully to repair frayed bonds, deescalate tantrums, contain and correct difficult behaviors and help your child to become more confident and emotionally resilient. We use a collaborative and supportive coaching model and provide inspirational, easy-to-understand techniques grounded in neuroscience and attachment. In the end, your child will be more compliant, more relaxed, and – most importantly – happier. Connected Parenting will bring out the best in you and your child.
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- Artist: Jennifer Kolari
- Copyright: © 2018 Connected Parenting
Podcasts:
In this episode, Jennifer explores what happens when one parent is too serious and the other is too playful...how to see each other’s strengths and work together instead of against each other.
In this episode, Jennifer tackles swearing; Why kids do it… How to understand it and how to redirect it.
In this episode, Jennifer talks about the importance of self-parenting and how to parent yourself from a place of kindness and compassion. As parents, we are the architects of our children’s brains, and our parents were the architects of ours. In truth, we are all walking around as adults with programming that was installed before we were seven years old. Self-compassion and loving self-parenting are critical to good mental health and help us be better parents to our children.
The pandemic is taking its toll on children’s mental health. Many kids are struggling and parents are struggling with knowing how to help them. In this episode, Jennifer gives parents some important tips on how to soothe and comfort your kids while building your emotional resilience during these trying times.
In this episode Jennifer shares practical tips that really work to help you teach your child to go from a worrier to a warrior.
In this episode Jennifer shares how to help your teens with heart break. It is so hard to watch your child suffer and at times it hurts us more than them, but there is much to learn as kids practice life and learn how to grow and thrive through whatever life throws at them. This episode will cover the what to do and what not to do to help your kids heal.
If 2020 taught us anything it’s that we have to help our kids deal with change and disappointment. In this episode Jennifer talks about how to help your kids manage big hurts and little hurts. Listen to find out how to help your kids develop the emotional shock absorbers needed to handle anything.
Jennifer talks about the importance of learning to control our mental screens, what we think about and how to help our children master this important skill.
In this episode, Jennifer explores why couples work against each other, how to stop it, and how to harmonize.
In this episode, Jennifer discusses the difference between parenting 100% in the present and parenting only halfway, and how different parenting styles affect your kids.
In this episode, Jennifer talks about the downside of being nice and how being nice can be toxic. There is a big difference between being nice and being kind. Discover the difference and learn why being kind is always the better choice.
In this episode, Jennifer discusses the art of being neutral, one of the most important pillars in the Connected Parenting method. Although it may sound simple, it is often the hardest thing to do. People often have different ideas of what being neutral actually means. Jennifer discusses the nuances and delivers practical and meaningful strategies to help you stay neutral and stay calm.
Halloween can be such a fun time for kids...candy, costumes and decorations! However, for many of our kids Halloween can mean anxiety and behavioural issues! This can make it a scary time for parents! In this episode Jennifer shares how to combat the halloween fears and the bedtime scares, and keep you and your kids CALM this Halloween!
Healthy shame vs. toxic shame and how to know the difference. In this episode, Jennifer will help you understand the difference between these two types of shame and she will show you how to help your children understand it too.
In this episode, Jennifer talks about how important it is to let kids experience healthy adversity. Challenges, mistakes, and failures are critical to learning, good mental health, and emotional resilience. Learn how to help your children benefit from life’s contrasts and bumps and how to stay calm while you do.
