If you are a parent of a tween, teen or somewhere on the way, this is exactly the place for you! This is the playground for parents who want to raise their kids with intention, strength and joy to come and hear all the discussions, get all the tactics and have lots of laughs along the way! We will dive into the real challenges in raising kids today and how to show up as parents AND teach your kids to show up as members of the family and individuals in the world. My name is Nellie Harden. Big city girl turned small town, front porch, iced tea sippin’ momma who loves igniting transformation in the hearts and minds of families by helping them build Self-Led Discipline™ and Leadership to elevate the family experience and set the kids up with a rock solid foundation they can launch their life on all before they even leave home!
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 13 hours 30 minutes
episode 48: How To Get The MOST Out Of Summer With Your Kids & Without The Pressure!
There is so much pressure around summertime! Make the most, cherish every moment, have no responsibility (while it piles up around you), and take it all in because it is fleeting. Yes! Yes, it is. But, we can’t stop life, pause all responsibilities and just live at the pool for 3 months of every year. In this podcast, I want to strip the stress of summer fun and give you the real deal on a silver platter...
episode 47: The Evolution of Being A Teen Girl with Guest Sheri Gazzit
How are teen girls today different than when you were a teen? How is parenting teens different today than when your parents had to parent you? What are our girls facing today and how are their brains handling the 24/7 social life of today? What can you do to help your teen? These questions and so many more are addressed in this pivotal podcast conversation with Nellie and Sheri! If you have a teen girl listen and share because we are all trying to raise up confident, respectful, and wise young...
episode 46: The Lessons I Learned Homeschooling For 7 Years & What I Would Have Done Differently
Have you ever thought about homeschooling? Maybe you are homeschooling now or did in the past. I just closed the doors on our school after 7 years and I want to share with you everything I learned in that experience, how it grew me, grew our relationships, understanding, patience, curiosity, critical thinking and so much more...
episode 45: Setting Up For The Path In and After High School with Guest Stephanie Haynes
Has what happens after high school always seemed cut and dry to you? There is a decades-long idea that after high school comes college and that is the way of life, but what it is wasn’t for some? What if it is for others? Stephanie and Nellie have a fantastic and educational discussion here that you will want a pen and paper out for. Stephanie discusses the details of the 5 main pathways of post-high school education and the pros and cons of each...
episode 44: The 4 Conversations That Need to Happen In Your Living Room To Move Forward After Another School Shooting
What can we do? It seems so complicated and tangled and the finger-pointing is going around and around, so the problem is revolving instead of resolving. There are 4 conversations that need to be had and the best place to start is in your living room. In this episode, I dive into each conversation and what that means. This is NOT a political debate. This is NOT a policy debate. This is NOT about blame or shame. This is about all of us agreeing that this is not ok and finding solutions...
episode 43: The Importance of Play (Even When Your Child is Older) and How it Echoes into Adulthood with Guest Roya Dedeaux
This episode is so fun, as you would expect an interview with an expert on play to be. Roya and Nellie go deeper than the smiles and giggles when it comes to play and examine the bigger effects at play (pun totally intended!) How does play affect their curiosity, validation, perspective on diversity, tolerance, problem-solving, and more! We are not just talking about barbies, cars, and kitchen here either...
episode 42: The Power of Touch In Parenting
There are “touchy” people and “non-touchy” people, but the fact is physical contact is important in the human experience, and diving in and getting curious about how we feel about touch is important. So often the aversions are from childhood traumas and dramas and exploring the emotional healing is just as important, and probably more so than the physical healing...
episode 41: Meal Prepping, Picky Eaters & Grocery Shopping in Today’s World with guest Kristy Baranovskis
Have you wondered how to do ALL of the things you need to and are expected to do as a parent and still have time to put anything on the table that isn’t prepackaged fast food? Finding time for real food is a challenge and, in this episode, Kristy gives us the 5 tips on how to meal prep without breaking your money or time budget...
episode 40: Bring Your Mess Into The Light
Life can feel like an arena. In parenting and in teen and tween life especially. Getting up and ready to face the challenges every day. In your arena you have 3 seats that are always taken up: Scarcity, Comparison and Shame. In this episode I walk through how these three “gremlins” show up in our arenas and what you can do about them!
episode 39: Tantrums to Talking with Toddlers to Teens with Guest Jill Urbane
Toddlers get a bad rap. They are opinionated, not in control of emotions or their bodies and they always WANT things, right? Yes, but what can we do to help them, and ourselves as parents, through this process? Nellie and Jill have an in depth discussion here about the Secret Sauce of communicating with your toddlers and how 93% of what we communicate is not in words, but in tone and body language. And, just to let you know, it doesn’t stop here...