The Kid Code Playground

Family holidays bring connection, but they also bring train wrecks. What to do? As always, bless yourself and others for their mistakes and move on. Learn from the mistake and leave it in the past where it is. Journal about your part in the upset. Make an imaginary box at the entrance to your house called The Past and once you’ve learned something from an upsetting event, place it in the box. Volu...

Oh boy, kids are home, spaces shrink, there’s more to do and organize and tempers can heat up and boil over faster than the potatoes on the stove for Christmas dinner. What to do? Everyone needs a designated quiet space—the toilet seat will do. Everyone needs to have a list of needs. Everyone needs to limit screen time because connection doesn’t happen on the phone, so have lots of other games and...

Keep your own side of the street clean (from AA). Saying you’re sorry to your kids when you misbehave does that. Be your own street sweeper by watching your behaviors or making a list of them and then apologizing to your kids when they appear. Tell your kids that you feel vulnerable and at the same time retain your parental authority. This is freedom and family building. 1:34 Keep your own side of...

What does the word parent mean to you? All words are sounds with our own learned meanings attached to them. This podcast is an invitation for you to reinvent yourself—or not—by considering what a parent truly is and what kind of parent you want to be. And then you make it happen—little by little. The simple exercise in this podcast will help. Get out a pen and paper and write The Kind of Parent I...

Sugar causes the crazies—but what to do? It’s my favorite food group. I also recall seeing severe autism reduced to minor autism by cutting out all processed foods, including sugar. It was in a documentary and the child wouldn’t eat for nearly five days but when she did, she stopped her wild overreactions. Food matters and yet those foods that give us comfort also cause us discomfort—yes, life is...

Pressure builds, like a volcano about to explode and as I’m fond of saying, you can’t put a lid on lava, so you want to keep the lava under control. You can help yourself by taking the pressure off every few minutes before it culminates in an explosion—try this simple strategy every day this week to help yourself be a calmer parent. It’s called simple self-care. 1:27 One way to get calm: drop your...

Hi peaceful positive parents. I noticed my last podcast was dry as dirt, but it also has a valuable place in our lives. If we use critical thinking we save ourselves a lot of trouble. Combine critical thinking with conscious feeling and right and wrong thinking before you make decisions, so you suffer less painful consequences! 1:20 Places you can use critical thinking are what area to move to if...

If you can determine fact from fiction, you and your kids will be more confident in, and comfortable with decisions you need to make. Our courts use a system to help determine the truth and I’ve included some of that in this podcast. You can use this process when determining your and your child’s health decisions or on any political or cultural issue that you are involved in. 1:35 The steps for cr...

Our kids are going to be mini-me’s with some of their own character built in. Sadhguru teaches us to be like we want our kids to be. Spend a minute or two pondering that statement. To me it means if you want your kids to be kind, take every opportunity to be kind to yourself, them, and others. If you want them to be playful, play with them and drop seriousness when you can. If you want them to con...

The Kid Code Playground Podcast Air: October 25 2022 Title: Correcting a Child Subtitle: For Your Mental Health & Their Happiness Kids learn by nudging, pushing or smashing through boundaries, depending on their personality, so you already know that they are going to push every button you have. 1:29 We don’t want to act out when our kids do! 1:45 The mental awakening smack. 2:05 Correcting the...

When you feel like you’re beyond being able to tolerate another of your kids shenanigans without you blowing a gasket, that’s your ego blowing it for you—that’s not your True Nature. Ego is the one who hollers at kids, lectures them to death and pushes them away with impatient disapproval. 2:25 So, when you feel any upset arises, remind yourself, I’m not being myself and try one of these anchors t...

I know you don’t want to feel upset, troubled, challenged or at your wits end, so this podcast is designed to help you with a couple of quick ways to catch yourself before you react and one idea to calm you when you feel yourself start to sink down away from your good nature. 1:39 The first part of this exercise is to notice when you being to feel upset—become aware of it. Try these 3 tricks to he...

There is an ancient proverb that says we didn’t come here to teach our kids, we came here to love them; love will teach them. To help with that understanding, all day long today, think about what it is you love about your kids. When they start to challenge you and you feel your voice rising or feel like you’d like to stomp your feet and pull your hair out, think of why you love them. That doesn’t...

Everything we do is towards our own and our kid’s wellbeing. We go to work to take what we get from that to provide wellbeing for ourselves. We call a friend, hoping that will result in the feeling of wellbeing. We parent, hoping for wellbeing for the whole family. In this episode, discover one question to ask yourself every time you parent in a way that upsets you. 1:35 What we want. 2:15 One que...

This podcast is about what to do when you feel your kids needs or your own needs are a nuisance. 2:59 Pinpoint the upset 3:24 How to free yourself from the upset Listen in to free yourself! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today I want to talk about the symptoms of a difficult identity and offer a bit of help. No parent wants to think about their child being a victim, but we all carry the tendency that’s minor or major or somewhere in between. 2:05 – 4:47 If you let a child get away with adopting victimhood as a way to experience life, it will become habitual. The symptoms of victimhood can include: Not wanting to g...

In this short episode, you can learn how to instantly dissolve negative thinking and negative emotions. Once you have the hang of it, you can teach it to your kids to knock them out of entitlement and into gratitude. Every time you have a negative thought, turn it into a positive one—or find reality! For example, we can focus on being grateful for rain because the food we eat needs it, or focus on...

Do you ever wonder why you have to repeat yourself with kids? It’s because you haven’t made a lasting impression with them. Usually, it’s because you don’t want to be a nasty parent and impose rules and boundaries that might hurt their feelings—you want to be a nice parent (who ends up feeling bad due to yelling about whatever kids leave on the floor). Do you a 3 minutes to listen to this podcast...

As my husband says, gratitude spreads, so become a super spreader. We talked in the last couple of podcasts on gratitude that it has immense benefits for us personally, but it also has a beautiful, fulfilling ripple effect inside of us, and with others. Excerpt from Grumpy to Grateful, Grow Your & Your Kids Grey Matter. When Kids (Or Others) Won’t Do Must Do’s Grumpy… Do you have to cajole, br...

As Gregg Braden says in his video, you don’t have to go to Tibet to be monk-like! Right now, in your own home, you can be like a Tibetan monk, by using your breath and gratitude, to accomplish, on demand: Self-healing Improve immune function (SIGA response, white blood cells in your mouth) Improve awareness, intuition, and fast information retrieval Regulation of body temperature and production of...

Today I have the pleasure of being with Jackie Bailey, author, radio host—and a parent and child educator. She’s devoted to giving kids (and adults)—a more powerful voice. She’s going to share 5 rules of effective conversation you can use, and that you can teach to your kids because voice is valuable and powerful! She offers summer camps, workshops, courses and more—to empower you and your kids! 2...

Today I am sharing some information that might interest you about the benefits of growing gratitude in your family. This is from our upcoming book that is designed to help parents live more of their day in the state of gratitude, even when kid-chaos is happening. Stay tuned next week for some easy strategies to dissolve grumpiness into gratitude in a heartbeat! 2:26 The amazing benefits of gratitu...

To help parents and kids with food and all the fun of culinary medicine we bring you, once again, Chef Dr. Mike. As you learned last week, he is a board-certified interventional cardiologist, professional chef, and Professor of Culinary Medicine at The University of Montana. His children’s book, coming soon (see a pic of him below)—is an offering to parents and their kids to help them relate...

For an informative trip through the grocery store(y), we bring you Chef Dr. Mike. He is a board-certified interventional cardiologist, professional chef, and Professor of Culinary Medicine at The University of Montana. Take a trip through the grocery store to see how to navigate it and come out as a modern-day hunter-gatherer with your cart piled high with foods that nurture you and your kids...

Kim Muench, a Real Life Parenting Guide with a degree in psychology, author of the book, Becoming Me While Raising You , has some valuable tips for you to use with your teens and adolescent kids. Kim shared why we shouldn’t be afraid of setting boundaries—or be afraid that our boundary’s might push their kids over the edge. Learn about non-negotiable boundaries and why they are important and how t...