Embracing Your Season: Raising Littles and Understanding Teens with Paige Clingenpeel
How do we navigate seasons of parenting and marriage while embracing the struggles and successes? This podcast is designed to provide you with practical tools, wisdom, and takeaways to equip and encourage you. Join Paige Clingenpeel, a licensed therapist, minister, and mom of four, as she invites others into conversation, sharing her successes and failures with humor and humility.
Embracing Your Season: Raising Littles and Understanding Teens with Paige Clingenpeel
Episode 69-How to Parent so your Child Feels Protected, Loved, and Empowered with Dr. Mercy Connors
In today’s episode of Embracing Your Season, Paige shares an interview from her recent trip to AACC (American Association of Christian Counselors) in Dallas, TX with Dr. Mercy Connors. Dr. Connors is a Licensed Professional Counselor, the Director of Program Development and Professional Relations with AACC and is happily married to Jesse Connors, Founder of TrueLife.org, and has three children and one waiting in heaven. Together, Paige and Dr. Connors discuss parenting mechanisms that help ensure our children grow up feeling safe, loved, protected, and empowered.
Paige’s Takeaways
- Recognize that we need to create structure in our homes
- When there is a lack of structure, there is an anxious attachment in our kids.
- Our kids need guidance/guardrails/boundaries to learn self-control and discipline.
- When we lay down rules, we explain the “why” behind the rules
- Though our kids may not fully understand or agree with our reasons, explaining the why behind a rule is so important as they develop.
- Green Therapy
- Get your kids outside! There’s so much value in getting outside in God’s creation - and it’s been proven to reduce stress and anxiety.
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Connecting with Dr. Mercy Connors
American Association of Christian Counselors
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