Little Sprigs Podcast

A lot of you've reached out to me with questions around sensory issues, sensory integration, and how to support the development of the senses in our young children. For today's show, I invited a dear friend Lalla Carini who's been an extremely important teacher in my life for the past 14 years to share her wisdom and experience. She holds a tremendous amount of love and compassion around these topics and I'm so excited to share with you today. __ Thank you for taking the time to listen to this show. I hope that you keep up with the content I post, subscribe, and share your learnings with those that need to hear it. Your comments matter deeply to me so make sure you drop in and say 'Hello" __ Follow me online here ► Instagram https://www.instagram.com/littlesprigs/ ► Check out my Alexa Skill https://littlesprigs.com/dailyparentingtips ► Listen to the podcast EVERYWHERE podcasts are available https://littlesprigs.com/where-to-listen ► Website https://littlesprigs.com  

If your child has some anxiety about separating, it can be super helpful for them to see you connecting with the teacher.  I would invite the parent to hold their child and sit down with me for tea. When the child witnesses the safety and trust that is present between parent and teacher, they can more easily trust themselves.  This can be more important than pressuring the child to open up to the teacher and accept them. Also, if you have rarely left your child, then some practice with family members or good friends is a good idea before school.  Practice your goodbye routine over and over at grandma’s house then when you do it on the first day, it will actually feel supportive. Enjoy The Show

Our children stand before us with endless “What” and “Why” questions, they push back on our requests, refuse our meals, and challenge us to go back inside and come up with something better than, “Because I said so!” But the truth is, during these formative years, our children take in very little of our verbal communication with them. So many parents worry about crafting the perfect answer, offering the right activity, disciplining the most effectively, etc, when what matters the most is our internal world. They mimic the way we care, our devotion, our sense of purpose, our problem-solving strategies, our rigidity, the way we love… __ ► DM me your questions on Instagram: https://www.instagram.comlittlesprigs/ ► Check out my Alexa skill!: http://littlesprigs.com/dailyparentingtips __ Christina is Little Sprigs Founder and Parent Educator. With over a decade of experience in #earlychildhoodeducation, Christina has shifted her focus from spending her days running her Waldorf inspired home based #preschool, to supporting parents, creating content and sharing her voice through video, written word and audio content for your enjoyment. __ Subscribe to my Newsletter for exclusive content and parenting inspiration here: http://littlesprigs.com/emailform

    Christina is Little Sprigs Founder and Parent Educator. With over a decade of experience in early childhood education, Christina has shifted her focus from spending her days running her Waldorf inspired home-based preschool to supporting parents, creating content and sharing her voice through video, written word and audio content for your enjoyment. ► DM me your questions on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littlesprigs ► Check out my Alexa skill: http://littlesprigs.com/dailyparentingtips ► Subscribe to my Newsletter for exclusive content and parenting inspiration here: https://littlesprigs.com/emailform

Our children stand before us with endless “What” and “Why” questions, they push back on our requests, refuse our meals, and challenge us to go back inside and come up with something better than, “Because I said so!” But the truth is, during these formative years, our children take in very little of our verbal communication with them. So many parents worry about crafting the perfect answer, offering the right activity, disciplining the most effectively, etc, when what matters the most is our internal world. They mimic the way we care, our devotion, our sense of purpose, our problem-solving strategies, our rigidity, the way we love… __   ► DM me your questions on Instagram: https://www.instagram.comlittlesprigs/ ► Check out my Alexa skill!: http://littlesprigs.com/dailyparentin... __ Christina is Little Sprigs Founder and Parent Educator. With over a decade of experience in #earlychildhoodeducation, Christina has shifted her focus from spending her days running her Waldorf inspired home based #preschool, to supporting parents, creating content and sharing her voice through video, written word and audio content for you enjoyment.   __ Subscribe to my Newsletter for exclusive content and parenting inspiration here: http://littlesprigs.com/newsletter

Today’s conversation is a dense one.   I would recommend listening when you are not distracted or multi tasking. We are headed into about an hour with a dear friend of mine named Rob Scott. He has spent the last decade of his life working with hundreds of thousands of people, shifting their identities, and showing them how to evolve their consciousness and get incredible results across all areas of their businesses, their health, their relationships, and their entire lives. I have been blessed with the opportunity to work with Rob myself in a few different ways over the past 4 years and I am so grateful.  What I find so profound is that all of the shifts I made while working with him have been impossible to unsee. And the illumination of what is truly serving me in my life, being able to let go of all that isn’t, has allowed me to show up in service to you parents in a whole new way. So I am really excited to share this conversation with you.   Much Love. -Christina

Meg is a women’s empowerment coach + educator, a yoga teacher and mama with a passion for helping the modern day feminine leader to  transform their wellness journey into their wholeness journey And then to unleash their gifts and innate ability to bring about social change in the world. She does this through personal coaching, retreats, yoga classes and online programs – each of them curated to help you embody your feminine essence, release the stagnant energy that might be holding you back and reclaim the part of you that longs to be expressed. She resides in Australia and was generous enough to wake up at 6am to have this heart to heart chat with me.  So enjoy it, I am sending you all so much love. -Christina Learn More about Meg here: https://beyondbeingwell.com/

Today's guest is a renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development. Rather than offering quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them. Learn more here: https://drgabormate.com/ In service, Christina

Today I invited a dear friend and fellow conscious parenting guide, Lori Petro, to join me for a very important conversation. She is the founder of Teach Through Love. Teach standing for:Transforming the Emotional Abuse of CHildren She is a Speaker, Child Advocate, & Parent Educator and a mom on the spectrum. Her mission is to raise the global awareness of empathy, tolerance, & peaceful conflict resolution through media outreach, community building, parent-teacher education, & sharing her personal journey of being the kid no one understood. After an emotionally challenging childhood and a personal journey toward healing and self-awareness, Lori became passionate about changing the way we speak to each other. Which is why I knew she would be the perfect guest to reach out to today, I think you will to. Connect with Lori Here: Website: https://www.teach-through-love.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TEACHthroughLOVE/

Mark is the author of the book, Elevated Leadership. He is a veteran educator in social and emotional learning and a frequent speaker and trainer on the topics of education, team empowerment, and effective management. He also speaks regularly to parents/teachers and has created a curriculum on effective ways to build positive relationships with your children. Check him out at: https://elevatedleader.com/  

It can feel impossible to speak our truth when it has been dismissed and de-valued our entire life. Especially when our subconscious has connected speaking out to experiencing pain. It can feel scary to find out that our truth looks very different from who our parents think we should be. Every human walking the earth has a story. As we come into contact, we cannot help but to project our story onto each other. When we take the time to get to know our own story, our own beliefs, our own limitations, the more we begin to see what belongs to us and what belongs to the other. If we are blind to this when we have children, they quickly become the screens for our personal movie.

When our child is tantruming, pushing back or having a difficult time it can be challenging for us to hold space in that moment because we have so many unshed tears ourselves.    Years and years of suppressed emotions that then get "triggered" when our child is going through something or an experience that we have not yet had the opportunity to work through or release ourselves.    So in the heat of the moment, it can be difficult to untangle which emotions belong to us and which ones belong to our child.   A mentor once offered me a very useful shift in perspective and that's what I want to share with you today.   Much Love, Christina           

It can be exhausting to go through every day guiding a young child this way and that way, moment by moment. When you develop a routine it will carry the whole family and the child quickly learns what is coming next which supports them to go with the flow. By setting a routine you are deciding ahead of time, with your partner and any other caregivers, what your limits are and where they lie. This way when something unexpected comes up, you are supported by this framework.

Thank you for listening in.   I hope that you keep up with the content I post, subscribe, and share your learnings with those that need to hear it.   Your comments matter deeply to me so make sure you drop in and say 'Hello"   ► Check out my Alexa skill here: https://littlesprigs.com/dailyparentingtips   ► Follow me online here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littlesprigs/   Much Love, Christina

Emotional and social intelligence grows and develops through relationship and primarily through the experiences that a child has with his or her parents. When we offer our children empathy and help them to cope with negative feelings like anger, sadness, and fear, we create a foundation of loyalty and trust that our children carry with them throughout their lives. This is a quick story of how I approach this with my daughter. In Service, Christina

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There are 5 Natural Emotions that all humans feel and need to express. Love, Grief, Fear, Envy, and Anger. Unfortunately, most of us were not allowed to fully express these ... The post 5 Natural Human Emotions appeared first on Little Sprigs.

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Fonta is a Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Educator. Using perceptual and behavioral tools she teaches a rich mix of logical and emotional communication for professional development. Area of Specialism include ... The post The Power of Nonverbal Communication and How It Effects Your Children appeared first on Little Sprigs.

This is a difficult place and the definitions of these ideas often get wrongly exchanged... So I want to start by breaking them down a bit. Threats are empty and cruel. They simply teach our children to fear us rather than to problem solve and understand how behavior is related to consequences. There is a difference between natural and logical consequences and we have to be careful not to exchange the word consequence for punishment. Especially when it is handed down out of frustration and anger. The post The Difference Between Threats and Consequences appeared first on Little Sprigs.

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Meinir has been teaching children for over 34 years. She currently runs the show at The New Village School, a Bay Area independent school located in Sausalito, redefining education for children in grades K-12. http://www.thenewvillageschool.org/

Dr. David Bardsley holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., D.D.S. and Fellowship in Oral & maxillofacial Surgery. He is the founder of Silver Eagle Media, a company dedicated to helping individuals increase their cognitive ability and perform at their highest intellectual level. He has spent the past five years crisscrossing the country presenting to business executives, teachers, parents, students and has recently authored the book, “The Less Than Perfect Child.” 

Janet is the Founder of Boys Alive!  As an Author, Educator, and Family Coach, she has been advocating for boys for two decades. With her warm and engaging style, Janet supports parents and teachers nationally and internationally to understand how males and females learn, interact, and interpret the world differently.

Karen has been teaching personal biography workshops for over two decades. She offers deep insights into what it means to be human and how to understand the natural cycles of life we all go through. 

Based in San Francisco, Fonta runs Eloquence Studio which offers in depth training on verbal vs nonverbal communication skills. http://www.eloquencestudio.com/

Swami Sitaramananda is a senior disciple of Swami Vishnudevananda and acharya of the US West Coast centers and Ashram. I love Swami Sita! https://sivanandayogafarm.org/

Dr. Siegel’s book, Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (Bantam, 2010), offers the general reader an in-depth exploration of the power of the mind to integrate the brain and promote well-being.

Meinir has been teaching children for over 34 years. She currently runs the show at The New Village School, a Bay Area independent school located in Sausalito, redefining education for children in grades K-12. http://www.thenewvillageschool.org/

Meinir has been teaching children for over 34 years. She currently runs the show at The New Village School, a Bay Area independent school located in Sausalito, redefining education for children in grades K-12. http://www.thenewvillageschool.org/

Mothering Arts is a wish. A vision. A hope.It’s a wish for all new mothers and their babies to be cared for and nurtured. It’s a wish for every mother to feel that she is supported and worthy of self-care. It’s a wish for mothers, babies, elders and wise women to come together share wisdom, nurturing and inspiration within their community. http://www.motheringarts.com/