Sparkler Parents
By Christine Robenalt
Join me on my own adventure in parenting my 3 kids and being a pediatric physical therapist. We can learn together from my experiences and from my guests.
Take 5 minutes to listen to some quick insights and tips to build your present moment awareness and become a Sparkler Parent.
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Sparkler ParentsOct 10, 2019
Episode 33 - Empathetic Observer of Our Own Experience
Today we are going to take a DEEP DIVE into the sensations of the present moment and begin to cultivate what I have been calling being an "Empathetic Observer Of Our Own Experience". We do too much judging of ourselves and others and this exercise that you are about to do will help gain experience with merely naming the experience/sensation without judgement or evaluation. After you watch or listen to this Podcast episode, spend 3-5 minutes journaling about your experience.What did you notice. Just name it, do not evaluate or judge your present experience.
Episode 32 - Brain-Based Parenting Book Club; Ch 4. - A Caregiving Formula (Acceptance)
This episode we review PACE, which stands for Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy. We talk a little more about playfulness and then dive acceptance.
QOD: Describe a time when you miscued with your child. In that moment were you able to stay playful and accepting, or not?
Jump on over to the FB Group to start a discussion.
Episode 31 - Brain Based Parenting, Chapter 4 - A Caregiving Formula
This chapter introduces the PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy) acronym. We talk about Playfulness and how that can help get you as the parent back into a parental state of mind so that you can better read your child's cues and want to engage more (release of dopamine). Join the discussion in the FB group, Sparkler Parents Podcast.
Ep 30 - Brain Based Parenting Chapter 3: Stressed Out Parenting
If I threw 100 tennis balls at you all at once, how many would you catch? I know that we would like to think we could catch at least 1 or 2, but in reality, the answer is none...in fact, I think I would turn around and just let all of the pummel me in the back. So, stress, can be adaptive, if we have the resources to manage it, but when the stress is too great, we go into survival. When this happens as a parent, it can feel very confusing, because everything just keeps going wrong and anything anyone says seems hurtful and it feels like you aren't a good parent or maybe you may perceive it as, your child is not a good kid.
These are all of the things discussed in this book chapter that Christine summarizes in this episode. Hang out until the last 5 minutes to get information about a free download of a Calm Down Cube.
Jump on over to our FB Group Called Sparkler Parents Podcast to join the discussion, or leave a review here!
Episode 29 - Brain Based Parenting Chapter 3 Blocked Care
There were some viewers/listeners who requested a YouTube Format, so this is it. You can still catch the podcast version too outlets like Spotify and Apple Podcasts. This episode continues to Chapter 3 of Brain Based Parenting and it discusses Blocked Care. The question of the week to discuss here in the comments or on FB is: What are your resources to buffer stress and challenge in your life so that you can stay in the present moment with your child?
Episode 28 - Brain Based Parenting Chapter 2 - The Parental-Child Reading System
Let's dive in to Chapter 2 a little more. So far we have learned that innately we, as parents, have different neurochemicals in our brains that help us connect to our children. These chemicals help strengthen pathways to build a strong attachment to our child first to orientate to the child, then be motivated to spend time and care for our child and today we talk about our ability to read/attend to non-verbal cues that tell us as parents that our child needs something...but what? And I would like to discuss in the FB group, what have you noticed in your own interaction with your children and how does your environment alter your way to effectively read your child's non-verbal cues.
Please join me on FB, search Sparkler Parents Podcast.
Episode 27 - Brain Based Parenting Chapter 2 The Parental Approach System
What is the Parental Approach System and why is it important to me? This is the idea that we are biologically engineered to want to have experiences with our kids. But I know that some parents find this difficult. What about when you rarely feel this way? This is a warning sign that there is too much stress on your system. Practicing silent sitting or a guided meditation can be PART of the solution at buffering your stress. How do you feel when you can take even just 2 minutes to yourself? What other strategies do you use to manage stress? Join the discussion in the Sparkler Parents Podcast FB group.
Episode 26 - Brain Based Parenting Chapter 2 The Five Domains of Parenting
Join the Discussion at the FB Group! Sparkler Parents Podcast
Share an example of a time when you did not use your executive brain while parenting?
I used to do this a lot more related to behaviors my children did or if my husband was about to arrive at home and one of the kids just made a big mess, I would yell, where as, if that same mess was made 30-45 minutes earlier I may not have yelled at my child the same way. What changed? The context changed. The fact that I just cleaned up and my husband expects a neat home when he returns increased my stress level and then with the new mess of Cheerios all of the floor (insert whatever mishap), I explode my stress out all of my child. If my executive parenting system was better developed, I would have been able to de-escalate myself. But even in after the stress explosion, I have some things I can do. I can take some breaths, I can step outside for a minute. I can apologize and hug my child. I can text my husband and just let him know what to expect when he gets home. It is not that big of a deal...slowing down helps us (and our kids) get our executive functioning back online.
Meditation #8 - I Spy (Sensory Edition)
This is not truly a meditation, but rather a way to develop an awareness of our senses. We have 10! In this game, 7 of the senses could be used including: sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, proprioception and vestibular.
Have a few items prepared and start the game off with SIGHT, I spy with my little eye....
Then allow you child to take a turn. Move on to as many senses as you feel are appropriate. Get creative with essential oils, noises and things to see in the room. But you can also draw a letter on their back (and allow them to do it to you too) or turn then around with their eyes closed and see if they know which direction they are facing.
Building an awareness of what kinds of sensory information can come in through our senses can help our kids (and ourselves) be more curious and open. And if we notice that our child is not curious, see what you can change about the envionment to pique their curiosity, this is the alerting and orientating activities that our brains do to learn if something is safe or not safe. So in this game, we are being very intentional about this, helping our child develop the alerting and orienting skills without having to automatically react to things that really are not dangerous or harmful.
Episode 25 - Brain Based Parenting Chapter 1 (cont'd)
This podcast episodes pulls in a little bit of the discussion from the FB group, Sparkler Parents. Please join us over on FB. Also we round out Chapter 1 with the concept of neuroception.
Meditation #7 - Heart Center
This meditation to to help open your heart to allow loving energy to come in and flow back out to your child(ren), family members, neighbors, neighbors' kids and on and on.
Check out Parents Thrive! This is a valuable resource of parents' stories around birth, anxiety and depression and realize that reaching out for help is a sign of strength. If you are a parent who is struggling, connecting to other parents, friends, family is a good thing. You do not have to have all of the answers, but be open to possibilities.
Episode 24: Brain-Based Parenting Chapter 1
This was a long chapter, but it lays the foundation for everything else that we will be discussing and learning about in this book. Some key take-a-ways included: We as parents are really striving to help our children be parents themselves one day. So all of the experiences of our child's early childhood will help shape the way the world in viewed in the future and how well our child develops the ability to self-regulate emotions, but also attune to others in their lives.
This process is happening very much behind the scene and for a young child, 0-2, years, old, nearly always driven from a bottom-up approach, or in other words, through the sensory systems.
Our brains need to work in a fluid, efficient way, uniting the information coming in with the previous information experienced and then hopefully responding to situations, especially as adults, using our higher levels of executive functional and parental capabilities.
Jump on over to the FB group, Sparkler Parents Podcast to join the conversation.
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Episode 23 - Book Club Edition: Brain-Based Parenting #1
Welcome back Sparkler Parents. After about a 2 week hiatus, I am back. Over the next 8-9 episodes we are going to explore together a book that was required reading for my infant massage certification that I hold. I will admit, I did not read the book! But over the past 3 years since I received the infant massage instructor certificate, I have picked up a lot of this information info from other places. In fact, this podcast is based a lot in information from this book and I had not even read it yet! So, now we can read it together.
The book is Brain-Based Parenting, by Daniel A. Hughes and Jonathan Baylin, https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Based-Parenting-Neuroscience-Interpersonal-Neurobiology/dp/0393707288
I am not an Amazon affiliate, but here is one way to get it. It should also be available at your local library. Check into the availability of an app to listen to it on Audio through your local library as well.
If you are interested, jump on over to FB and search for Sparkler Parents Podcast group. This will be where we can discuss the book together. It is a private group, but you should still be able to request to join. If you need assistance, reach out at info@sweetpeapediatricwellness.com
22 - Vision Quest
Sing, sing a song
Are you sick of Baby Shark, Daddy Finger or Wheels on The Bus? Check in with your child when they sing a song or listen to music, because even if you aren't "feeling" the song in the moment, it might just be the ticket to strengthening your connection. Some ideas to create connections with music include: 1) just humming the tune. Humming can help you activate your vagus nerve and can actually help your slow your breathing and heart rate. 2) Make up your own lyrics. 3) Leave off the endings word in the song and see if your child can fill in the blank, "Twinkle, twinkle little ____." 4) Play one of your favorite songs and have a spontaneous dance party. 5) Set up folded blankets or throw pillows on the floor in a large circle, put on some tunes and walk from "stage" to "stage". Shout out "Rock Star" to invite you and your child to stand in the stage to dance, or shout of "Freeze" and pause the music for you and your child to freeze in place. Here are some links to songs that I love: https://youtu.be/3XEUasrdV8I https://youtu.be/gFEtY46onwI https://youtu.be/4fkPYwr-FVs https://youtu.be/0qicF6D6d94
Episode 20 - Love and Laughter
Love and logic is usually what we are going for as parents, but I often feel that love and laughter creates more connection. The logic part comes naturally the more connected we are to our kids. When our children sense our love and are relaxed, there no longer is resistance...or at least less resistance.
Leave a comment or a message about how you use laughter to build connections with your kids and in the meantime, check out this curated list of jokes to get the laughter (or at least a couple of smiles) going.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14sqqeuHk8MlrwU109w-eulUMlNQPhfKT/view?usp=sharing
Episode 19 - Drawing our kids closer - Cultivating creativity through drawing and coloring
Connecting with our kids is not always a serious matter. This week we will explore how to have fun, be creative and laugh together. Checkin out a few resources to get the creative juices flowing!
Online Cartooning Workshops for kids and adults
Take the 3 Marker Challenge
Cartooning tutorial
Meditation #6 - Creating Self-love and Compassion
This is truly time just for you.
You are worthy of love.
You are worthy of self-love.
You are worthy of other people's love.
You are able to give love to others.
Self-compassion is more than just for your benefit
As Sparkler Parents we are working toward cultivating present moment awareness with our children. But there are other parts of our day when we may not be directly interacting with our kids, but they are listening, watching, observing us and our responses to situations. They feel our stress as much as they feel our joy and excitement.
If we can grow our own ability to recognize and name our own suffering, we can then learn to extend our own selves a hand, just like we would do with a friend.
You are worth that. I am serious! You are worth it. Jump on over to Season 3 to find a companion meditation on Self-compassion.
Episode 17 - Can you please repeat?
This episode cover s a couple of tools that we as parents can use, but so can our children to help create some space for our emotions without reacting out of anger or fear.
I also wanted to share with you the idea of a Share Journal. Check out this little video tutorial and download the PDF's to print.
PDF only:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZRA_SUEhrHiCdzW-m0dLDvejvW0KwXyS/view?usp=sharing
Episode 16 - Wave of Emotions
Emotions are very similar to playing in the ocean. Both Susan David and Joan Rosenberg speak to psychological flexibility in their books (Emotional agility and 90 Second to a Life You Love) and this concept is very important for us as parents as well as for our children.
Balloons in the sky - Meditation #5
This meditation is great for adults and kids alike. You will be be invited to move your body during this practice, so you want to make sure that you have enough space.
Lie down so that your feet are flat against the wall or the side of a couch. If you need to, you can do this lying in your bed or sitting a chair with your feet against the floor.
Begin to notice your breath...
Phone a friend
Meditation #4 - Same and Different
Perfectly Imperfect
The strive to fit it to a group over leads us to act outside of our values. The longing to feel recognized, appreciated, valued can drive to to thoughts, behaviors and habits that are really about trying to make other people feel comfortable at the expense of our own well being. I grew up believing that being perfect was the only way to be. That if I did not do it correctly, or the right way, I would not be accepted. I went out of my way as a child and even as an adult to do everything for everyone all of the time without much regard if it was something that I truly wanted or even believed it.
This is not sustainable and it is damaging to the self. The more I felt appreciated then more I wanted that attention and the less I felt worthy of myself if I was not given that positive feedback. In fact, criticism was the sharpest weapon that could be wielded against me and I intentionally avoided it because it hurt so much.
For me, perfectionism was just a mask for my low self-worth and fear of rejection.
That is not a message I want my children to learn.
I want to be acutely aware of my children's emotions and perceptions of relationships because I want them to intrinsically want to participate in activities because they want to and because they find it enjoyable, not to impress someone else. And the contrary tis true too, even when my children don't want to do something that they really need to do, i.e. clean their room; eat vegetables,; be kind to their siblings; I want them to reflect back on their values and develop their own self worth, to choose courage over comfort and stand in their values for respect for self and others.
What values do you hold? And how are your modeling those to your children in small ways every day, because these are the moments when connection is made with our children. These are the Sparkler Moments!
Meditation #3 - Rainbow Reach
Thank you for listening.
Reach out to me at info@sweetpeapediatricwellness.com with any questions, comments or suggestions. I truly would love to hear from you.
Laughing isn't always funny
What is your sense of humor and how to you help foster a healthy sense of humor within your child? Looking for signs of engagement and signs within your child's body that the joke is perceived as funny is important. Plus thinking about our child's developmental age and whether or not the child is even able to understand the difference between reality and a joke, or an even higher level of humor sense as sarcasm. But just as tickling isn't always funny for the child, sometimes, sarcasm crossing the line. And even though it was not intended to be mean or ill-spirited, the child perceives it as such.
So notice within you child the reaction to a joke and understand that their perception of reality is real. And in order to better teach about humor, we as parents must keep safety for the child in mind first. You would not keep tickling the child if the child started crying or screaming, but since laughter is also a release of buffer to stress and stressful situations, watching for other signs, like turning away, guarding with a hand, closing into a ball can help us know when we have gone too far or when the joke is not perceived well by the child.
Observing and respecting the child's perception will help grow the child's ability to learn about humor in a positive healthy way and not actually begin to use sarcasm as a defense mechanism themselves.
The Last Love Language - Physical Touch
Physical touch means a lot to me as a physical therapist, but some kids (and even some adults) do not like physical touch. In order to help create safety around positive, safe touch we need to be able to figure out what safe touch feels like for our child. This episode goes over 3 different types of physical input that could be sequenced together as a formal massage to your child's arms, legs, feet, hands, back chest and belly.
If you would like to download the below PDF there are more instructions on how to provide a massage to your child.
But we can provide physical touch other ways too, such as a pat on the back, or a high 5 or hug. Watch for signs of engagement or clues that your touch may be perceived as not safe. When the touch is perceived as not safe, continue to seek out different types of touch or pressure that your child does tolerate and begin to expand it from there.
Our skin is our largest organ in our body and it houses many different kinds of receptors to help keep our body safe and protected. Sometimes, the perception truly a safe touch is perceived by the child as something uncomfortable. But by finding the "just right balance" you ca help grow your child's window of tolerance to allow and maybe even enjoy safe touch as a way to connect to others who are close to your child. It also allows for a conversation about who and why people can touch and that you can allow your child permission to say to someone, that they do not want to be touched.
Physical touch can be very powerful!
Today, try to give each of your children at least 5 different physical touches and see how your child and how you feel.
Thank you for listening!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwssGrN_yfP9LU9RMlJEMmVuYmtPLU1GdnFlekVhUU50MU9V/view?usp=sharing
Mediation #2 - Creating Safety in Your Space
The Power of Gifts
The other thing that happens is sometimes the receiver does not perceive that they are worthy of the gift. This is masking an underlying anxiety and challenge with self-worth. Children between 2-4 years old are developing this section of their brains and still need a lot of unconditional love to feel safe and perceive a value in themselves as well as within the family unit.
So, to use the love language of gifts effectively, we as parents should first make sure what we view as a gift is truly a gift coming from a place of unconditional love rather than a reward or a bribe. Also we need to check in with our child and see how they are feeling about their own value and with their own identity because giving a gift to help someone feel better about themself is most likely going to backfire because the gift gets attached to the person's self worth and since at the moment the feel very low in that area, the gift also is perceived as worthless. As a parent will get mad or angry and perceive our child's reaction to the gift as wrong or disrespectful, when in reality, the child's behavior is an outward manifestation of what the most likely are feeling inside.
Start with a different love language to target self worth, value and belonging and then add in gifts (drawings, cards, small tokens) that come from a place of heart.
Thanks for listening! I appreciate all of you very much.
Meditation #1 (all meditations will be listed under Season 3)
And as you practice something new, you can also connect more empathetically to your children who are learning new things EVERYDAY. As many have said before me, you don't meditate to get good at meditating, you meditate to get good at life.
Enjoy!
JOY vs ANNOY List part 2
This is the second part in a series of 2 episodes looking at ways to create more space to allow joy into your life. Again another self-care and buffering activity to be able to be ok right now in this moment, but also realize that we have other options. We as parents have a lot of stress. And these stressors may or may not be able to be changed, but we can (and must) build in buffers and resources for ourselves in order to maintain a balance.
This is another experiential episode. Please return to episode 11 to learn how to make your JOY vs. Annoy List and then use this episode to figure out what to do with it.
Much love and peace to you all. Thank you for being a part of this Sparkler Parent Community.
JOY vs. ANNOY part 1
Check out this tutorial on how to make a Joy vs Annoy list of your own:
youtu.be/PkIWxrqbn90
Breathe with me
We learn through our experiences. In this episode we will explore linking a known experience of breathing to focus in on how well we are able to stabilize our mind amidst distractions, like random thoughts, children yelling, the T.V., the dog barking and yes, even the "ding" from your phone. Noticing your current ability for focus and stability is an indication of how well coordinated you are in the moment and what types of things pull you out of this focus.
It did not take much to pull me away. But with practice I began to notice improvements. In fact, with consistent practice, you should start to notice changes at least every 10 days. This is compliments of your very neuroplastic brain.
Let's practice today together. Listen to the sound of the bell and notice how many inhales you take until the next bell sounds. How did that feel in your body. Were you aware of other thoughts coming in??? You can't stop them from coming in, but you can maintain your steadiness, just as you did yesterday while standing on 1 foot. If you did have difficulties focusing, what is one thing that you can do for the next practice (use the timer on your phone for 30-60 seconds) to maintain your focus on your breath?
Follow this link to try another breathing exercise:
Coordination within our environment
Often I feel we, collectively as humans, forget that we don't always have control. And in reality, gaining control over a situation, emotion, another person isn't accomplished by demanding it. Yes, this will work in the short term, but it takes too much energy and effort to sustain. Gain control is a matter of coordination of the information coming into our bodies from external and well as internal stimuli. How well are you listening to this information? Does that idea even feel strange or uncomfortable for you? If so, you are not alone. This Sparkler Parents episode will have more meaning for you if you have a space to stand up and try out a quick activity. Yes, this segment is a bit over the 5 minute mark, but I promise, it is worth it in order to obtain a felt sense of when things are coordinated and when things aren't. Enjoy!
If you would like to watch how I learned how uncoordinated my body was when trying to learn how to do a headstand, watch this video. I learned how to do the headstand by practicing, yes, but more importantly by feeling in my body what I needed to do to create stability. I used external cues from the environment as well as an internal perception of the stretch and tightness within my muscles. And then over the course of a few months, my mind and body became more connected...more coordinated.
Quality time and space
Moving through the Love Languages, we come to a pretty obvious one of "quality time". 10 minutes, 1-2x per day per child is what I strive for with my own three children. Some days I do better than others.
We have also implemented alternating dates with either parent once per month. So this month my sons will each have a date with me and my daughter will have a date with dad and then next month we switch kids.
On the flip side of quality time is quality space for our kids to process emotions (usually negative ones) without us interfering with solutions to fix, corrections or criticism.
There needs to be a space that is held open for our children to just feel the emotion.
As parents, we should not want the feeling to hurry up (in the case of negative emotions) nor slow down (with positive ones). Be in it for what it is right now.
Your job is to create this space for your child to feel your love and empathy.
Empathy is the human connection we can share relating to an EMOTION underlying any EXPERIENCE, even if it is an experience you have not had (or can remember). This requires us as adults to be o.k. with the full spectrum of emotions, the good and the bad....the happy and the sad...the excited and the frustrated. And to work to be present with our child with that feeling, even when we would rather just move on.
A word of caution about moving on when your child is still in the middle of it....the child can sense that their emotion is not wanted or should not be displayed. Over time, this leads to an inability to acknowledge emotions and it leads to surprising feelings or reacting to them. I know, because this is how I spent my youth. I feel like I started to feel emotions outside of happy or crying, sometime in my thirties. I am now 43 and I am working hard to stay present with all of my emotions as well as recognize those in my children. Over the years, I have been guilty of pushing my child through an emotion to get back to happy, merely because I was uncomfortable. I am working on this and I invite you to notice if this is hidden intention of yours, and to be present with your child both with quality time and space.
Practicing empathy with our children
Brené Brown speaks a lot of empathy and compassion. Tara Brach speaks about loving kindness. These are big concepts that connect all of us as human beings. These tools will also help strengthen the love and connection between our children, but it is HARD to do. What makes hard things easier?.....PRACTICE
As parents we may feel like we have to have the answers now. We may fear what will happen if we don't do this right or if we let. our "child get away with that."
Practicing empathy within the boundaries of your own family's values will always be the right thing to do.
Step 1 - It starts with awareness. Let the next 6 minutes help draw your attention to the times you do practice empathy and the times (because it happens to all of us) when you did not.
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Moment of gratitude paired with acts of service
Set your intention for this week. My intention is to focus on how important acts of service are to my kids, even when I think they can do whatever they are asking help with on their own. There is actually a reason that my child and your child asks us for help, because at that moment they are needing more connection. At that moment they are perceiving something is getting in their way of being successful. So we can start with that. In that movement when you and I are feeling angry, frustrated or annoyed by our children's request, we can place a hand on our heart and take a deep breath. Connect to our children in that moment and ask, how we can help.
Interested in reading more about the 5 Love Languages for Kids, check out Ross Campbell and Gary Chapman's book:\https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj3mtmupezuAhWCHc0KHYPNB3QQFjAAegQIAhAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.5lovelanguages.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-5-love-languages-of-children%2F&usg=AOvVaw0FA-jWNcfPtRb8nBhSx1Ue
Words of encouragement challenge
Weekly recap and noticing your breath
Amazing and Open - tools for self care
Compassion as a Sparkler Parent
Sparkler Parents are right there in the moment with our children. This is whether the situation is fun, sad, happy, angry, silly. Not everything is going to work out the way we want it to. We know this is true, but do we always create the space for our children to feel the sadness or do we sometimes try to rush them back to happy? Being aware of what we as parents have as levels of tolerance for different emotions will help use create space for our own children to grow their tolerance too.
STOP and take in some AIR - Tools to use
Check out my self-control book I made for our kids...it may be useful for you too!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wbejj0c5uESY84quPmVK5gXv9tcSkz_u/view?usp=sharing
Video on how to put the book together.
S: Stop what you are doing
T: Take a full breath to create some space between impulse and action
O: Observe what is really going on
P: Proceed from a place of love and kindness with ourselves and our children
and take in some
A: Acknowledge your child
I: Interpret what your child needs right now
R: Respond with an action that shows connection to your child within the established boundaries of your household
Setting an intention for the week
Take less than 5 minutes to listen to this episode to help you create an intention for your week.
If you are looking for some ways to play with your child check out this playlist on my YouTube Channel :
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG8sRZMlEDZD8EiB_3_YYUAlGkXuhdKMs
Intro To Sparkler Parents
Podcast Update - This Podcast is changing. As of 2/7/2021, it will now be made up fo 3-5 minute episodes on creating Sparkler Moments with your child. This podcast will often tips, strategies and solutions to help parents stay in the present moment and become Sparkler Parents. The moments with our children are fleeting. There is a start and a stop and we will miss the connection when we are always focusing on gaining control. When we, as parents are focused on what needs to get done next or what happened 2 hours ago. Let's learn together how to grow our present moment awareness to grow our relationship to our child and truly enjoy our role as parent.
Wired to Breathe
The American Lung Association once used the catchphrase, "If you can't breathe, nothing else matters." This is very true, but besides the obvious reason as to why breathing matters, have you ever considered its relationship to movement and postural control. In this episode, Vincent Leddy, PT and Carole Blueweiss, PT speak with me about yoga, breathing and how it is all related to our function. Along the way, we will dip our toe into concepts from Mary Massery, Anat Baniel and Svetlana Masgutova. Thank you for joining us!
Wired On Development
https://www.wiredondevelopment.com/home
Wisdom Shared Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-shared-with-carole-blueweiss/id1530813443
Anat Baniel Method
https://www.anatbanielmethod.com/
Mary Massery PT
MNRI
https://masgutovamethod.com/the-method/the-mnri-method-approach-programs
Panel Discussion #2 - Vicki Mackinder, OTR and Christine Robenalt, P.T. Discuss Sensory Regulation and the Therapist-Parent Dynamic Pre and Post Mommyhood
Sensory experiences and Sensory regulation are hot button topics. Vicki and Christine break it down a little and provide some additional resources. Then they have a discussion about what changed for them as therapists after having kids of their own and how this impacted their relationship with the parents they work with.
email info@sweetpeapediatricwellness.com to be featured on this podcast
Check out the FB groups, Peds Therapy Collective and Pets Therapy Collective - Global, to participate online in the discussions.
Find out more about foundational movements to integrate primary reflexes and begin processing sensory info well, check out the upcoming Course in Denver March 20-22, Archetype Movement Integration
Panel Discussion #1 - Mona Ready ECSE and Christine Robenalt, P.T.
Mona and Christine field a couple of questions from the Peds Therapy Collective FB Group. We also discuss a great resource for feeding challenges with children from My Munch Bug LLC and Melanie Potock.
https://mymunchbug.com/