How can you help kids respond to problems instead of react to them? School psychologist Amanda Suarez and marriage and family therapist associate Michelle Larson talk about a timeless concept conveyed simply in one of our original printables that families can use at home with kids. See our printables for members: https://upliftkids.org/social-and-emotional-skills-printables-for-kids/
In this week's episode, Uplift Kids cofounder Jon Ogden talks about our third family camp in Scholls Valley, Oregon, including some highlights from the feedback we received. Join the waitlist for next year's camp: https://upliftkids.org/family-camp/Jon also announces a new direction for the podcast, which will focus on exploring a new skills-based printable each week from our growing social and emotional printables page. Members have full access to these printables here:https://upliftkids.org/social-and-emotional-skills-printables-for-kids/Stay tuned for more printables!
In our final exploration of the book Raising Securely Attached Kids, Amanda, Michelle, and Jon talk about the need to balance warmth and structure in the home to build a trusting environment. An excerpt, from Amanda: "When I think about what this could look like in a home like in the morning there could be a visual checklist of, "This is the routine. This is what we do in the morning: We wake up, we have breakfast, we brush our teeth, we put on our shoes, we pack our school bag." So there's something visual that gives structure, but there's also some, ritual of connection. ... So you could have a way where you're attending to the different parts of the day and like, how much structure do we have and how much warmth is also built into that structure."See our new Rupture and Repair printable for members: https://upliftkids.org/social-and-emotional-skills-printables-for-kids/
This week Michelle (therapist associate) and Amanda (school psychologist) continue the conversation about Eli Harwood's book Raising Securely Attached Kids. They talk about a cooperation-based approach to parenting and where parents might go wrong in getting to that approach by being either too domineering or too indulgent. They also talk about reflective functioning and "good enough parenting." It's a conversation with lots of pragmatic and timeless parenting tips.Members can join our book club on Monday, July 7th at 10am PT. (See our weekly email to register!)
Michelle, Amanda, and Jon discuss practical insights from Raising Securely Attached Kids by Eli Harwood. Hear how to experience attunement and co-regulation, giving your kids a foundation of love and generosity.
In this episode, Amanda Suarez and Jon Ogden explore one of the three frameworks we use in our conflict lesson. Use it to navigate conflict at home.https://upliftkids.org/lessons/conflict/Michelle returns next week, which is when we will start our conversation about Raising Securely Attached Kids by Eli Harwood.
See our writeup about our first book club for members, which focused on the book Already Free by the therapist Bruce Tift: https://upliftkids.org/blog/parenting-therapy-buddhism/Also get ready for our next book club in a month. We'll explore Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience by Eli Harwood: https://attachmentnerd.com/books/raising-securely-attached-kidsWe will resume our normal podcast next week!
Amanda and Jon talk about the concept of having kindness toward everything that arises — whether it be an emotion, a situation we can avoid, or something else. It's a timeless skill to learn as a parent and a timeless skill to teach kids.Join us for our book club on Monday, June 2nd. If you're an Uplift member, check your email inbox to register.
Michelle interviews her friend Brenda, who attended our parenting retreat earlier this year and came away with amazing insights. Sign up for the next retreat's waitlist: https://upliftkids.org/parenting/Also: Members can join our book club on June 2nd! See the Sunday email for the link.
Amanda, Michelle, and Jon continue their discussion of Bruce Tift's Already Free ahead of the book club for members on Monday, June 2nd. Listen to get practical insights about how to stay with your embodied immediacy during intense parenting situations so you can respond with clarity.
In this episode we introduce the basic concepts in the book Already Free by Bruce Tift, which is our first book for the Uplift book club. Listen for practical insights to help kids know they are already free and whole — and could also use some improvement. :) This book and conversation is perfect for exploring your own patterns and helping kids navigate theirs. Join our book club discussion — for Uplift members — on Monday, June 2nd at 10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET
We've wrapped up two year's worth of episodes related to the lessons in our lesson library! We hope they've been helpful for prepping to do the lessons in your home. At this point we'll be doing a few new things with the Uplift Kids podcast, including a book club for Uplift Kids members. Join us as we explore the first book — Already Free by Bruce Tift. Stay tuned via our podcast and weekly Sunday morning emails for details about how to participate in the book club!We'll also be doing interviews on this podcast as well as returning to explore specific parenting-related questions. Thanks for listening! And, as always, we'd love to hear from you if you have any feedback or insights for us.
When we break the cycle of shame, we can express ourselves more freely and better connect with the people we love.Note that there are many definitions and approaches to shame. In this lesson, we follow leading psychologists, including university professor Brené Brown, who says that shame is the “intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.”
In this episode, Michelle Larson interviews a longtime friend named Heidi about her experiences using Uplift Kids. If you're looking for ideas about how to have conversations about life's most important topics, this episode can help you see and enjoy new possibilities.
Do your kids ever feel overwhelmed by failure? How can you help them view the experience as an essential part of the learning process? In this discussion, Amanda Suarez, school psychologist, talks about how to help kids deal with failure.Members can see the full lesson at:UpliftKids.org/lessons/failure
How do you have healthy, positive conversations with your kids about sex? We explore that question in this episode. See our full lesson on the topic (for members):https://upliftkids.org/lessons/sexuality-conversation/
James Ure has done almost all 100+ of our main Uplift lessons and has fabulous insights about how families can use the program — or just have makeshift conversations about the topics that matter most — at home. He's also the co-director of Uplift family camp alongside Elizabeth Seeley, who have also started a teen camp together. Use the code Uplift100 for $100 off the teen camp at TheMojoVillage.com. (Uplift doesn't get any financial compensation for this — we're just trying to spread the word about causes we care about!) Listen to this episode to hear how you can have regular conversations about important topics from someone with rich experience on the topic.
Elizabeth Seeley, co-director of Uplift Kids family camp, talks about her unique approach to doing Uplift lessons at home — an approach that starts with chocolate tasting and ends with open conversation. Hear ideas about how to do Uplift lessons, as well as Elizabeth's thoughts about family camp and a new project she's involved with for teens looking to explore an expansive approach to spirituality.
Kids can feel deep grief when they lose something, when they move, when a friendship ends, or when someone close to them passes away. How can you help them navigate these feelings? In this episode, school psychologist Amanda Suarez, marriage and family therapy associate Michelle Larsen, and curriculum creator Jon Ogden talk about the ways to help kids navigate these big feelings.
In this episode, Uplift Cofounder Jon Ogden is joined by Jordan Harmon, a dialectical behavioral therapist who leads workshops for parents. Jordan attended our recent 3-day parenting retreat in Oregon where he told a story about how certain insights he gleaned from his work as a therapist helped his son manage his angry outbursts. Hear Jordan tell this powerful story, which can help you with similar issues at home.If you're interested, you can also join Jordan's online parenting workshops by filling out this form: https://tinyurl.com/27t93akv