Dr. Jessica Green explores personal growth and staying authentic while parenting through the summer, addressing routine shifts and stress. She offers practical tips like giving yourself grace and building micro moments of self-care to model regulation for children.
Dr. Jessica Green: We are going to have another moment where we are talking about personal growth. Personal growth will forever and continue to be a part of us. Our ability to be courageous, our ability to build connections, but also to be our true, authentic self.
This week is allowing us to be our authentic selves. Our ability to grow through the summer when our kids are at home. Use challenges as growth moment demands, not just stressors. Build micro moments of self care.
Good morning, Cadre world. This is Dr. Jessica Green. And today we are going to have another moment where we are talking about personal growth. But before we get started, we are going to allow some others to come in because personal growth is definitely important. Personal growth will forever and continue to be a part of us. Our ability to be courageous, our ability to build connections, but then also our ability to be our true, authentic self. So as others are coming in. Good morning, Andy. I want us to talk about our week and how it was going.
So if you can rate yourself on a scale from 1 to 10. And today is fabulous Wednesday, and we're in the middle of the week, so hopefully this week is not getting the best of us. This week. Morning, Luke. This week is allowing us to be our authentic selves. And as we talk about personal growth, Brianna, I want us to think about, hey, you know what? This is the end of May and the end of June, and if we have children, we know what time that means. That means our kids are out of school and we have to make sure they're not getting the best of us, especially when we talk about personal growth.
So today, the episode and the content that we're talking about today, more so focus. Our ability to grow, but then also our ability to thrive through the summer when our kids are at home, because our world does not stop right. We're continuing to work, we're continuing to get up, we're continuing to be caregivers, be parents and even guardians out here. So this episode is definitely again, for my parents, for my caregivers and my guardians who are out here trying to gear up for that summer shift with the kids being at home, if they're not in summer camp or if they are in summer camp, how are we going to get them there?
So when school lets out, we know that structure changes, stress can rise, and it can definitely take a toll on our mental health. So I want to talk about how to manage the chaos. It can definitely disrupt our routine and then also test our patience, being mindful what we say and how we are. But it's also a powerful moment, too, on the flip side and grow in the process. So I'm going to give you some tidbits and ways that we can do this. All right? So if you have your paper plus for the summer so we can continue to be our authentic you to give yourself some grace.
You're not meant to entertain or organize every minute. Your kids will be okay. If they're a little bored, it's okay. You're still a good parent where you need time for yourself in order to take in that self care and make sure we're the best of us so we can be the best for them. Number two, build micro moments of self care. It may be that extra 30 minutes or for everybody. You can read your book, but just those things that we see, we taste, they protect our peace. But then they all show regulation.
And as a parent, it's important that we model that behavior for them, but it's personal growth for us relationship with them. So the third thing I want you to use challenges as growth moment demands aren't just stressors. And when we think about predictability, especially in our kids, more than perfection and.
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