We speak with Cindy Brown, a 30-year veteran teacher, where she learned her students came up with their own stories, and often they were about how they were not good enough. and that led her to become an expert in social-emotional learning (SEL). So she created Polished Parents.
Show Notes
In This Episode:
- Cindy answers the question, "Wouldn't it be cool if... you had a mentor to guide you as you build your Homeschooling foundations?"
- Cindy shares strategies, resources, and guidance to create experience-based curricular plans in alignment with your child's age, academic abilities, and learning needs, along with infusing mindset development for healthy emotional & social connection.
- We talk about how as parents we need to teach our kids to have conversations about our emotions.
- We discuss apps and wearable tech that helps people, parents and kids, identify their feeling and predict when they will feel them based on the clinical and analytic details.
- Cindy breaks down some of the themes she teaches most often at Polished Parents.
- Pausing
- Setting your kids up for productive success
- We talk with Cindy about how the transition from education to entrepreneurship has been for her.
- We talk about the growth mindset for parenting.
- Jenny asked Cindy what some of her mindset challenges are and how she plans to overcome them.
- Often a set of parents were raised with very different values around things like money, vacation, education, etc., and getting your spouse to understand those differences is a key component of understanding how to parent your children.
- We talk about how we need to recognize that this type of parenting is a societal shift.
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Quotes from Today's Episode:
"I created Polish parents because I know parents are doing the best they can. I just buff them up a little and give you the right tools so that your kids can go into adolescence with the strongest mindset ever. And it really just stemmed from my own personal growth, not having those skills, even as an adult to the level that I now understand." ~ Cindy Brown
"I am the parents' secret weapon to raising balanced children." ~ Cindy Brown
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