10 Quotes I Love from the Last Year
Here are 10 golden nuggets from 10 episodes in 2021
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I have over 130 episodes of Raising Good Humans Podcast (wow!) and I can’t get enough of all the incredible things we’ve learned over the last 2 years.
If you’re new to the podcast, I hope these inspire you to listen to the complete episodes. For those of you who are dedicated listeners, here are some reminders from some of our favorite episodes. Click on the author's name for a link back to their episode.
1. “When you feel hopeless, get helpful.”
2. “Sometimes we focus so much on the trauma, that we forget to remember the history we have of overcoming difficult things.”
3. “The first step to raising a self-confident kid is to look at who your child is, and not what you want them to become.”
4. “A good parent is not the parent of a perfect child, it is the parent who stands by the child during moments of imperfection.”
5. “When we are silent about certain issues, we allow the audience room for interpretation…silence can be interpreted as ‘my parents aren’t OK with this…’”
6. “We cannot separate behavior from what a child is experiencing inside. Part of the challenge is learning how to manage big feelings without hurting other people or ourselves.”
7. “’Soft skills’ are just as hard to master as physics.”
8. “Guilt is the universal experience of motherhood. That voice is in our heads most of the time. What we are not nearly as conversant in, is this softness, pureness, kindness, and gentleness that should come to you.”
9. “We are the meaning makers for our children.”
10. “A huge amount of our energy, our life’s energy, is thrown away into the past or the future.”
