73: Nurturing Resilience. With Dr. Mary Wilde

Are you worried you'll pass on your anxiety to your child? Listen in to find out how you can be a good model. Letting our children fail and at the same time always being there to catch them at the bottom of the slide. A balance of modeling, working through tough times, and encouraging courageous actions. Dr. Mary Wrilde helps navigate these fine lines in today’s episode. What We Talked About: Defining resilience and why it’s important to nurture it for our children Modeling how we deal with our own anxieties The importance of having our own alone time as parents How can we help our anxious children navigate their feelings? Do anxious parents create anxious children? Things to Remember: “As mothers, it’s important to give ourselves permission to have our own creative time.” “Our children need to develop their own frustration tolerance.”  “Anxiety is part of our existence, learn to ride its waves.” “How we frame things as a parent shapes our children's inner dialogue.” “It is absolutely possible to fall in love with parenting.” -Dr. Mary Wilde “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” - Angela Duckworth “Talk about your failures without apologizing.” - Brené Brown “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” - Nelson Mandela Click here for Show Notes and more from Jeanne-Marie, Your Parenting Mentor

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The Art of Parenting provides parents and caregivers support and encouragement as we nurture and guide the next generation. Do you struggle with your child’s demanding or frustrating behaviors? Do you find yourself spread way too thin trying to figure out this whole “parenting puzzle” (such as tantrums, hitting or biting, wanting a better relationship with your child, sibling rivalry, potty training, co-sleeping, etc.)? The Art of Parenting podcast, with your host Jeanne-Marie Paynel, is intended to help you decipher children's needs and learn how to better provide for them. I’ll be sharing simple tips and tricks that will make a huge difference in your home while giving you the support and encouragement you deserve to enhance and enrich your parenting experience. Each week I’ll be helping you find clarity and solutions to your toughest parenting problems through Q&A sessions and inspirational conversations with world-renowned experts in a variety of fields. Topics range from Montessori and RIE parenting methods to positive discipline, respectful and conscious parenting, minimalism and more! Parenting was never meant to be done alone and The Art of Parenting is here to debunk the general consensus that it has to be hard.