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Good Neighbor Podcast: Auburn and Opelika
With her genuinely good heart and a wealth of experience behind her, Susannah works to connect local business and non-profit leaders to their neighbors. In a community like ours in which so many have invested their lives, there are fantastic stories all around us that motivate and inspire, often right next door. She hopes to share some of those here, on the Good Neighbor Podcast. Book an interview today at GNPAuburn.com
Good Neighbor Podcast: Auburn and Opelika
Ep#74: Walking Beside Parents: How Frazelma Lynn Transforms Stressed Families
Parenting911 enhance parenting skills with tailored coaching services designed to empower parents along this amazing journey of parenthood We provide support through our online community, courses, resources, webinars, and community events.
By providing hybrid services, we can reach parents wherever they are and walk with them to reach their goal of family success !
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This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Susanna Hodges.
Speaker 2:With me today is Friselma Lynn, and she is the owner of Parenting 911. Parenting 911. Welcome, Friselma.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much for having me, Susanna. I love the 911. Many people forget the parenting part that goes in front of that.
Speaker 2:Yes, and sometimes we need that 911 call, don't we? When we're parenting young children. So tell me a little bit about Parenting 911. What do you do?
Speaker 3:So Parenting 911 actually provides help for parents. We help rescue childhoods, we transform families, we help parents relieve stress with what's going on with our children sometimes. So we provide real solutions for real parenting problems.
Speaker 2:Well, tell me a little bit about how you got into this type of service.
Speaker 3:What brought you to helping parents? So I'm a retired teacher and school administrator. I've been helping parents my whole life, because when you're working with their children, you're also working with them and you're helping them wherever there are needs. But after retiring, yeah, the new call on my life is teaching the parents. So now I'm focusing on them more, but still working with children. Some parents will ask are you going to help our children too? So we have evolved and we are working with parents, and the children come together on many different levels. Sometimes it's just about emotions being out of control, and I tell parents all the time you have to change first yeah expecting the child to change so what does that look like?
Speaker 2:someone gives you a call and says I need some help. What does that look like for you to come along beside them and give some counseling on that level? What? What does that look like?
Speaker 3:So of course we do this by Zoom because I record that conversation. That way I can go back and make sure we're hitting all the points. But I need to know the pain points.
Speaker 3:I need to know the why behind the call. And then we talk about how they want things to look. What is it that they really expect or really are looking for? What's the dream that they have for their family? And that's where we start planning and setting up the strategies needed for those sessions so that they can reach their goal for their family.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, you've been, you know, helping and working with children and parents for a long time now. What are some of the misconceptions that people have about parenting? Maybe, or maybe even getting you know some help with their parenting.
Speaker 3:That's an interesting question, because you hear parents quite often say things like there's no book that comes with parenting.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:No what to do. And then it's very disheartening when there is someone who is willing to give you strategies, just point you in the right direction, just give you a different perspective on things, and then parents are reluctant that's a good word Reluctant to even step forward and take those opportunities that are available to them. So I think one myth for me would be that parenting is different now than what it was. Well, parenting, we just have to do things differently. But parenting really is about being a good person to your children.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah good person to your children. Yeah, yeah, and that's the same as it was years and years and generations and generations ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think you're right. I think you know. We always hear our children say, well, things are different now from you know, when you were growing up. And I always tell my children no, it's exactly the same. You may have something you know, different technology and maybe some different stressors, but really we're all the same.
Speaker 3:The strategies of life are still the same. We need to be good people. We need to help teach them to be good people. A parent just asked me, maybe yesterday, how do you teach a child to care? And I said you show them by caring for them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's so good. Yeah, well, tell me a little bit about yourself. When you're not working with parents, what do you do for fun?
Speaker 3:What do I do for fun? So my husband and. I, you know, have a big family. We have six adult children, nine grandchildren.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, oh, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3:A wonderful blended family, and so sometimes what I'm doing is talking with grandchildren or children. Sometimes he and I just like to sit and watch tv and laugh and talk yeah, okay, I love that.
Speaker 2:So part of the reason I do this podcast is to encourage people who are thinking about going into business for themselves. You know, on that entrepreneur journey and you have done exactly that and a lot of times people go into business and they don't really know how to handle the challenges that come along with that. Were there any challenges for you, whether it was personal or in your business, that made you stronger and your business stronger when you overcame it?
Speaker 3:Wow. Yes of course, challenges. So, being an educator, we didn't have to necessarily go out to get funding or any of that. All we did was open the doors and the children came in to see the world differently and make sure that I'm doing things that are sustainable so that the business can continue, you know, year after year. That was probably my biggest learning curve.
Speaker 3:I would say. But then I'm a resilient person. There were many more challenges, but I face a challenge and try to figure it out. Find someone who can help me with more resources, more expertise to figure things out and I just keep moving from there.
Speaker 2:That sounds good. If that's what you have to do when you're in business, is you got to keep going? Absolutely so. Go over a little bit about parenting 9-1-1 some of the services that you provide, and I know that you do. You know some um, uh, you have events every month.
Speaker 3:Tell me a little bit more about about that so um parenting 9-1-1 has contracted with Opelika City, and we do events every month on the first Saturday. Usually it's at the Opelika Public Library, you know, unless they have something else going on and there's a shutdown for them, but normally it's at the library at 3 o'clock in the evening. It's from three to five, and the public school, opelika City Schools, has also assisted us by sending flyers out to their parent email just to let parents know about the event. We will be having an expo in July, july 5th, at the library. It will be, though, from 11 am to 2 pm, and we are focusing on emotions, because all of us have emotions, doesn't matter who you are. We just need to learn how to manage our emotions better so we can help our younger people manage their emotions better In August.
Speaker 3:Like I said, it's usually first Saturday, so that's August 2nd and we will be talking about the group project. In other words, it takes all of us the village, to help our children be successful. It does break my heart when parents feel that they are the only ones that can help their children. No, it takes several of us, from different areas, to help our children be successful. So we're going to talk about the group project and how the child, the parent and the school and even the community all have a part in the success of our children.
Speaker 2:Right, that's so true. So the first Saturday of the month you're at the Opelika Public Library doing some kind of event and teaching there, and you said it was from 11 am to 2 every Saturday. I mean the first Saturday.
Speaker 3:Normally it's at 3 o'clock, it's from 3 to 5. But the one, july 5th is going to be from 11 to 2. We're going to feed them lunch. And we're going to have a great time, and the community has joined in with us to support us. So we're going to look at how to handle our emotions better and not get triggered so easily.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, sounds good. So, to kind of wrap things up here, what is one thing that you wish people knew about parenting? 911 that they may not, you know, get from your website or what's something you want them to take away.
Speaker 3:One thing that for any parent to take away is we walk beside you. I like to say we don't judge, we nudge.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we meet you wherever you are. Yes, I have to ask some background questions, but it's not to judge you, it's just to find out how we need to help you move forward. Not to judge you, it's just to find out how we need to help you move forward. So, for any parent, just know that we're there for you, to walk alongside you. We're not trying to cause you any pain, we're actually trying to take the pain away.
Speaker 2:That sounds great. So if someone were to reach out to you, how would they find you?
Speaker 3:The easiest way to find me is go to wwwparenting911.org and they get all the information there.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much, Prisselma. I've really enjoyed talking with you and learning about Parenting 911. Thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 3:Thank you, it was wonderful to be here.
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