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How To Raise Confident Children with Shelly Lefkoe
How To Raise Confident Children with Shelly Lefkoe
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Aug 2, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
Are you instilling positive or negative beliefs in your children? We’re all working towards instilling positive beliefs but many parents struggle with the “how-to” of building confidence in their children. This episode, Shelly Lefkoe, founder of Parenting the Lefkoeway, will leave you with four life-changing takeaways that will have an immediate effect on how you could best parent your children. She explains through a weave of explanations and narratives, we can learn to facilitate the belief shaping process in our kids to raise joyful, confident, and life-affirmed individuals. "How would you like to have children who spend their lives not getting better, but making a difference?” — Shelly Lefkoe Highlights from the episode: Shelly kicks off her talk with a question on responsibilities She shares the mantra every parent should say to become a conscious parent #1 Key — Get to the Source, Don’t Force The story of how Shelly got to the source of her daughter’s dislikes without forcing her to change She explains the fundamental rule of never asking “Why” but instead, replacing it with “What." Shelly shares the 3 ways to make your children feel powerful #2 Key — Make Them Feel Important The story of Brian, an over-achieving workaholic who was losing touch with his family, and even with himself. #3 Key — Have realistic expectations of your children The story of Judy, her daughter Sophie, and the time she forgot to throw away a bag of bird poop. Shelly explains the reason why we chastise our children for acting out in public She shares the 3 ways to not let your children feel like they’re not good enough She ends her keynote with the principle that will change your life and your child’s life forever If you enjoy this subject on parenting, we’d recommend you listen to Dr Shefali Tsabary’s talk from Mindvalley University here: Conscious Parenting Expert Shefali Tsabary Shares How To Raise Brilliant Children In Today’s World For more materials, we’d recommend the following articles: The Best Piece Of Parenting Advice I Ever Received 10 Ways To Support Your Children In Times Of Uncertainty Through Yoga How To Master The Art Of Conscious Parenting And Have Better Connection With Your Children Here’s a powerful quote by Shelly for you to leave with, When your child walks away from you, stop and ask yourself the question. "What did they walk away saying to themselves?” — Shelly Lefkoe Here at Mindvalley, we’re committed to more than just personal growth. We're determined to push humanity forward by empowering our audience, like yourself, to unleash your fullest potential, to be extraordinary, by using the most powerful tool of all — education. Mindvalley's A-Fest is an event pool of inspiring talks from incredible change-makers just like Dave, Marisa, and Sonia. If you’d like to learn more about Mindvalley’s A-Fest, visit our website at afest.com and apply to become part of our curated community and attend incredible events dedicated to personal transformation. The Mindvalley Podcast aims to bring to you the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas in personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work. For show notes and related content, visit go.mindvalley.com/podcast36
Released:
Aug 2, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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