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We’re excited to launch season 2 of the Growing Connected podcast today! Last season, we responded to parents’ questions about individual issues and concerns of family life. This season, we’re shifting focus. Parents are facing so much pressure and stress right now, and many of the things we would have done in the past just aren’t logistically or emotionally possible. So instead of discussing individual issues, we’re stepping back and look at what science and faith have to show us about how staying present with our kids over time, through the hard things, builds strength and resilience. To do this, we’ll discuss the concepts we present in our book, The 6 Needs of Every Child, including the 6 Needs compass. We hope the information we’re sharing will be encouraging to you whatever parenting moment you find yourself in, throughout the ages and stages of your kids.

We’re kicking off this season with a conversation with Lori Beth Auldridge. She’s an incredible author, speaker, and homeschooling mom of three with degrees in child communication.

During our conversation, Lori Beth shared a completely relatable story about a meltdown during a beach trip and her fear that her reactions had hurt her kids. Jeffrey replied,

“It’s not the tension that in some way harms children or leaves a scar on them. It’s the tension with no context. Our children don’t really know what’s going on inside of us and inside of them.  The gift we give them is to help them make sense of their inner world and ours, and find a way forward through all that messy stuff that goes on inside of each of us. When that happens, it actually builds resiliency. It’s not a scar that injures them, it’s something that they grow from.”

Resources and Links:

• Listen on Spotify
• Access a downloadable copy of The 6 Needs compass
• Find out more about Lori Beth Auldridge
• Order The 6 Needs of Every Child: Empowering Parents & Kids through the Science of Connection