Episode #36: On Choosing to Trust Your Children with Margaret Dahlberg, Musician, Teacher, Artist & Mother Artwork

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Episode #36: On Choosing to Trust Your Children with Margaret Dahlberg, Musician, Teacher, Artist & Mother

November 03, 2023 • Working Mother Experience

Today on the podcast we meet the incredibly creative, insightful and kind Margaret Dahlberg, known in Calgary as Ms. Tweetie. Margaret is a local celebrity amongst children who enjoy her Music in Nature program or private music lessons AND is an internally recognized composer and musical performer. We are so lucky to be able to showcase one of her original compositions in our virtual gallery.

Margaret opens up about her original music, Mountaintop, a composition she created to parallel the experience of being a working mother. She likens the experience and feeling of working motherhood to that feeling one gets at the end of a hard hike - elation with a side of calm and fatigue. Yet, as we look out from the summit, we know there are many more summits we will make; that the summiting will cease to end.

We dive into the lessons she has learned as a music teacher and mother; observing parents and children delight in the power of sound, returning to and relaxing in their own bodies. As a mother with children out of the home, Margaret shares what it is like to navigate the highs and lows, the lows being much bigger, yet less frequent with older children and how she always chose to trust her kids, even when she knew they were lying.

We know you'll love connecting with Margaret as much as we did. She's brilliant, funny, humble and honest. And if you live in Calgary, we highly recommend you connect with her for lessons as an adult or child and to spend time with her doing music in nature.

Check Margaret out --> https://margaretdahlberg.com/