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 talks Back to School again, this time with special Guest Natalie Syrmopoulos from Evolving with Natalie. Jennifer and Natalie are both parents and they discuss the unique challenges that parents face this school year.
Anxiety is so miserable but it is also manageable. In this episode Jennifer shares essential tips for calming your own fear and anxiety as well as how to model this for your children. Learn how to control anxiety, so it doesn’t control you.
This year it's back to school like no other year! Jennifer helps you to navigate a start to school in unprecedented times.
Kids do better with strong loving fathers and when fathers use the Connected Parenting method it kicks it up a notch! This episode explores the unique dynamics of fatherhood and how to understand and work with the dynamics of both hard and soft parenting.
Take the fight out of food! In this episode Jennifer Helps parents deal with picky eating and power struggles at the dinner table.
Jennifer has a great conversation with Lynda Gourianov a connected parent with a feisty gladiator child. Lynda shares her journey through the ups and downs and way-ups of Connected Parenting.
In this episode, Jennifer helps parents understand what teens are going through and how the current state of the world is affecting them. Learn how to help teens during these unprecedented times.
In this episode, Jennifer describes a wonderful activity to do with your kids - interactive storytelling. It is a great way to connect with your children, release oxytocin and adrenaline, and work out what may bother them using adventure and imagination. Jennifer recorded this prior to parks being closed in many cities, so keep in mind this will work in your backyard and on a neighborhood walk.
These are stressful times. Families will be together a lot over the next little while and tension will be running high. It can be a time of coming together and remembering what’s important or it can be a time of arguing and fighting. This episode starts with us... and how to fight, or better yet, not fight in front of the kids.
Ranting: It might feel good in the moment, but venting and ranting may be doing more harm than good.
Jennifer shares some creative and playful ideas that strengthen the parent-child bond and build emotional resilience. Don't forget to visit our Connected Parenting Youtube Channel! Check it out! Like us and Subscribe!
Jennifer helps parents understand why siblings fight, why it is normal and what to do about it. Don't forget to visit our Connected Parenting Youtube Channel! Check it out! Like us and Subscribe!
Tis the season to have tantrums... Jennifer prepares you for all highs and lows that come with the holiday season and how to help your kids handle them. Don't forget to visit our Connected Parenting Youtube Channel! Check it out! Like us and Subscribe!
Being gifted is not always a gift. This episode explores the highly complicated emotional needs of the gifted child. Don't forget to visit our Connected Parenting Youtube Channel! Check it out! Like us and Subscribe!
Mom’s are so hard on themselves!! This episode explores how important it is so be kind to yourself, how to forgive yourself and why you are not alone. Don't forget to visit our Connected Parenting Youtube Channel! Check it out! Like us and Subscribe!
