A-Team Parenting Podcast

How to you react when your kids wants to have – yet – another toy? Your words might create connection or disconnection with your child Here the link to the mentioned article: https://www.pinterest.de/pin/53409945554763030/ And also visit our homepage: http://ateam.rocks

Today we talk about a book with the title: Small Animals – Parenthood in the Age of Fear Visit our homepage: http://ateam.rocks

We talk about more things that one should do to create a positive family atmosphere. Things we mention are: * record those funny sentences that your kids come up with * talk about your own childhood * do some geocaching * plant a tree and sleep in a tent. For more ideas you will have to listen! our homepage: http://ateam.rocks

Here is the link, we mentioned: https://muttis-blog.net/42-einfache-ideen-fuer-guten-familienzusammenhalt/ And here is some of the points we talked about: 1. Have family meetings 2. play together 3. board games 4. computer games 5. shared meals 6. Good night stories 7. read a book together 8. coloring books 9. be creative 10. origami 11. be creative with toilet paper rolls 12. make an interview with your child 13. put messages into their lunch box 14. pyjama party 15. celebrate birthdays 16. have a spontaneous family party 17. movie nights 18. make a movie 19. watch older movies and photos 20. tell stories from earlier days 21. fill a jar with happy moments

Having some difficult conversations not only is part of any managers lift, but also starts at home – in the family. Once your kids are old enough to be able to converse, you'll benefit from having good talking and listening habits and you'll teach your kids some very valuable lessons druing that process. Here's the link to the article we talk about: https://www.judyringer.com/resources/articles/we-have-to-talk-a-stepbystep-checklist-for-difficult-conversations.php

Acutally we're talking about 13 phrases – and of course about our actual experience with them. https://www.mother.ly/child/12-powerful-parenting-phrases-that-make-talking-to-kids-easier Visit our website: http://ateam.rocks

We talk more „old school parenting“. This time we found an old newspaper article. https://www.tripbeauty.com/twelve-rules-for-raising-children-an-old-column-by-ann-landers-so-true/ Visit our site: http://ateam.rocks

We talk about evergreen advice from Maria Montessori like: 1) Kids learn from their surroundings. 2) If you criticise your kid, it will learn how to judge. 3) If you praise your kid, it will learn how to appreciate others. …. find the whole article here: https://www.hftg.co/maria-montessori/ Visit our site: http://ateam.rocks

Since one of your kids currently hasn't found new friends at the new school yet, we pick up this issue and dare to talk about it. Dr. Robyns Article (link below) serves as a resource! Visit our homepage: http://ateam.rocks

If you're looking for some good family ritual ideas that teach important lessons, than you can have a look at the link below and start listening as we talk about: Rituals that teach responsibility, that promote kindness and compassion, that build strong family connection and that develop a sense of belonging. https://biglifejournal.com/blogs/blog/family-rituals-teaching-responsibility-positivity-kindness-compassion Visit our site: http://ateam.rocks

Originally we intended to talk about an article of suggested family rituals we could have. But then we only talked about our own successfully and not so successfully implemented rituals we have in our own family so far. Ressources we mentioned: - Link to funamo – the parenting software for your kids smartphone: https://www.funamo.com/ - the poster I‘ve made for this summer‘s holidays Our homepage: http://ateam.rocks

This time we talk about an article on a german website: Things that parents should avoid are: 1.   Surround your kid with people who are unable to show their feelings. 2.  Do everything in order to prevent your kid from having any kind of disappointing experience. 3.  Always have some substitutions in order to comfort your child. 4.  Act as unpredictable as possible. 5.  Don't ever respect your child's boundaries. Here the link for all german speaking listeners: https://www.brigitte.de/familie/mitfuehlen/erziehungsfehler--die-kinder-zu-tyrannen-machen-koennen-10809018.html Visit our homepage: http://ateam.rocks

We still need to talk about one more love language – which we're doing today: - Acts of service https://biglifejournal.com/blogs/blog/connect-child-activities-love-languages But since this would be a very short episode, we add another topic: 5 Essential ways how to create a growth mindset corner So keep listening to find out – what the heck that is! https://biglifejournal.com/blogs/blog/steps-create-growth-mindset-corner Our homepage: http://ateam.rocks