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The Parent Practice PodcastAuthor: Elaine Halligan and Melissa Hood
Welcome to The Parent Practice Podcast, the show for anyone who cares for and about children. We know you want your children to be happy, confident and successful and that you do your best to be a good parent. Sometimes you probably beat yourself up for not being good enough. Good parenting can be simple if you know how. We can support you here by exploring a range of topics to enable you to feel calmer and happier and to help you get that parenting manual you wish you'd had from the beginning. We are your hosts, Melissa Hood and Elaine Halligan. Were passionate about positive parenting. Weve developed expertise built up over many years of working with families. In this podcast we interview a whole range of different people in differing fields from authors, to therapists, to clinicians. They all have fascinating insights into this messy world of raising and educating kids. We share our experiences of raising our families. Between us we have 5 now-adult children and one and a half grandchildren and we walk the talk every day using these skills with our families. In the interests of celebrating perfect imperfection in every episode youll hear from our guests about one of their own low parenting moments and their top tips for raising happy, confident and successful children. Language: en Genres: Kids & Family, Parenting Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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The Upsides of Enforced Slowness in Lockdown with Carl Honoré TPPP36
Episode 36
Thursday, 23 July, 2020
If you’re feeling really over the whole pandemic thing this episode will lift your spirits. The Covid-19 pandemic has certainly changed our lives. We’ve been forced to accept changes to the way we live in order to try to control the disease, some of which have been inconvenient, to say the least. Some families have found the enforced lockdown extremely difficult and for some isolation has really affected their mental wellbeing. But it hasn’t been all bad. Carl Honoré has written extensively about the benefits of slowing down –he calls it embracing our ‘inner tortoise’ - and recently he has been musing about how Covid might be just the force that compels us to slow down with all the benefits that brings us and our families. Listen to this episode with Carl if you want to learn: What the detrimental effects are on us of the busy way we live our lives and what are the prices we pay, the things we sacrifice, for our ‘roadrunner’ lives, the biggest of which are human connection and opportunities for self-reflection How the cult of productivity has grown up in pursuit of the perfect CV but as a consequence children lose may the ability to think and be creative How attentiveness, presence, joy, good health and love can be lost in the rush from one activity to another How your children can really enjoy activities if they winnow down to a few that they really love. Top tip: you’ll know your child is really passionate about an activity if they talk about it even when they’re not doing it How ‘buffer moments’ between activities are essential for processing and building memories How to create conversation time in which you really get to know your child and indeed yourself What some of the lessons of Covid might be, what aspects of lockdown do we want to retain and what do we want to be different when we go back to ‘normal’ How productivity can be increased when people have more autonomy How important it is to remember what we value and what we’ve learnt from our pandemic experience. Memory is impacted by living life too fast so Carl encourages us to write down our thoughts about this to avoid forgetting when life speeds up again, maybe in the form of a family mission statement You’ll enjoy his very simple top tip for raising children to slow down and be adults who have more balance in their lives. If you want to get in touch with Carl check out the links below: Links https://www.facebook.com/carl.honore https://twitter.com/carlhonore https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-honor%C3%A9-81806ab3/ https://www.instagram.com/carlhonore/
