Ep. 202 | Navigating Big Emotions in Children

Do you enjoy our parenting conversations, but want to connect with us on a more personal level for a change? Would you like to hear our answers to questions that have nothing to do with raising kids—the kinds of questions you’d ask us over coffee? Are you curious to know what hap ...  Show more

Do you feel like you’re drowning under pressure to “do all of the things” as a mom? Does it seem as if you're just trying to “survive” motherhood rather than enjoying, thriving, and shaping your family legacy? Are you looking for encouragement from God’s Word to help you through ...  Show more

Mike taps into his knowledge of Latin for a conversation about emotion, which at the root means "moving out." What do we do when emotions move children in the classroom? We can take on the role of "inner voice" and guide childrens' responses to their feelings. Sometimes words get ...  Show more

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Marc Brackett, the Founding Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of Permission to Feel. Dr. Brackett discusses the importance of emotional intelligence, and how we can teach our children to understand ...

Did you know parental stress can negatively affect your child? Today, I'm discussing the powerful connection between stress and how it impacts our children. When life gets chaotic-- whether from work, personal struggles, or outside circumstances- our kids often feed off our emoti ...  Show more

Imagine if we needed to know everything about our lungs in order to take a breath. It would be impossible to live. And yet, something similar is happening with emotions. We no longer trust our basic intuitions about what we feel, because of so much noise in the mainstream narrati ...  Show more