Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids with Sue DeCaro
200 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsConscious Parents, Thriving Kids is a podcast designed to help parents all over the world create deeper connections with themselves and their children, so their families can thrive. Listen in for parenting stories, successes, pitfalls and supportive coaching techniques to move through the challenges and chaos on your parenting journey. Enjoy transformational conversations with experts, educators, and parents who will inspire and inform you as you tap into your own values in parenting.
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With Gratitude And Love
December 26, 2022 10:00 - 4 minutes - 7.74 MB#192: Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening in, and for your incredible support, notes, comments, and stories that you have shared with me over the years. I feel so honored and grateful to all of you! It has brought me so much joy in creating and sharing through the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids Podcast. It is a bittersweet moment as I share my joy in creating this podcast and my sadness at the fact that this is the last episode as I move in new directions. Although this i...
Parenting Is About Us!
December 19, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 16 MB#191: Parenting is not just about your child. It is about you. Just as we are here to help our children grow and thrive, they are also here to help us grow. Parenting is about uncovering all that you carry with you; the conditioning, wounds, values, beliefs, and ideals. Listen in to learn more. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way....
Stop And Get Curious
December 12, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 15.6 MB#190: Do you ever find yourself joining your child or children in their overwhelm, frustration, sadness, anger, etc? Getting curious can really help shift the way we come to our children and support them when they are having a tough time. Listen in to hear some nuggets and wisdom to take forward on your parenting journey. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in...
Bedtime, Routines and Strategies for all Ages
December 05, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 16.6 MB#189: Bedtime can be a tough time for all of our children. It is a transition that can create resistance and challenge. Bringing attention to these challenges with a routine that serves our children can make a huge difference. Listen in to learn how to serve your children! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this glob...
Rising During A Time When Our Self-Talk Is In The Trenches
November 28, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 14.2 MB#188: When we beat ourselves up over things we have done or not done, we do ourselves a disservice. How can we rise when we are negatively pulling ourselves into the trenches? With each negative thought, negative statement, and overwhelmingly disappointing self-talk, we are carrying a heavy weight on our shoulders. Listen in to hear how you can bring a change to this in your life. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, su...
The Masks We Wear
November 21, 2022 10:00 - 12 minutes - 22.4 MB#187: Sometimes during our life, usually early on in our childhood, we begin to learn the art of creating a protective exterior. The protective exterior shields our true selves from the world while simultaneously detaching us from who we really are. Listen in to learn more about the masks we wear. This is an important topic for all of us. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today...
Living A More Conscious Life
November 14, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 16.2 MB#186: Living a more conscious life is about actively evaluating your activities, decisions, values, and beliefs as well as questioning everything that you have been told to believe and conditioned to be. Listen in to hear more about this important topic. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked m...
My Parenting Story
November 07, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 13.7 MB#185 As parents, we face great obstacles. From advancing technology, social and academic pressures, drugs and alcohol, and more, the obstacles are endless. Throughout the years, I too was faced with many parenting challenges that required me to change, find my inner wisdom, and shift the way in which I parented. Listen in to learn more. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today...
Emphasizing Self-Worth Within Our Children
October 31, 2022 09:00 - 8 minutes - 15 MB#184: Growing up with a feeling of “value” and “self-worth” is important for all of our children. In my personal and professional experience, I have learned that many adults did not feel a sense of self-worth as children. What does this mean exactly, and how does this affect adulthood? Listen in to learn more! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious an...
Reframing Our Fears
October 24, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 12.8 MB#183: Recently, I have been pondering fear and how it drives us. Fear is an innate human emotion—we all experience it from time to time. It helps protect us. Fear is such an important emotion to discuss, especially today. Listen in to hear more! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked minded ...
Stop Should-ing On Yourself
October 17, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 11.1 MB#182: Do you find that you "should on yourself" often? Albert Ellis, Ph.D. coined the term “should-ing all over yourself” which references our tendency to overwhelm ourselves with should statements or things we think we ought to do. Do you find you should on yourself? Listen in to hear more about this process and how we can shift it! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s c...
FAIL: First Attempt In Learning
October 10, 2022 09:00 - 8 minutes - 15.9 MB#181: For many of us, the word failure often conjures up negative emotions, disappointment, and pain. We were raised to believe that failure is a terrible thing we must avoid at all costs. However, we learn so much about ourselves and the world around us when we look at our failures through a different lens. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious ...
The Art of Letting Go: Raising A Child With Special Needs with Cindy Kaplan
October 03, 2022 09:00 - 19 minutes - 35.5 MB#180: Growth is about letting go of our expectations and fantasies and focusing on our reality. My special guest shares how much she has learned and grown from raising her amazing daughter, Mira, a "shining light." Listen in to hear more about Cindy's story and how she struggled and grew with hard work, letting go, and accepting the messy. More is available in her book: "Freefall: One Mother's Journey Raising a Child With Special Needs"
Personal Growth Through Changes
September 26, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 9.1 MB#179: Oftentimes when we are looking to move forward and find our "new path", we might expect too much, too quickly. There is no destination in our personal growth. Please listen in to learn more about how you can become more aware of the present moment and see yourself more clearly. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join...
Connection vs Connection - Creating Smooth Transitions
September 19, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 11.5 MB#178: The re-entry process is an important and powerful time in our day-to-day lives. When we are away from our children and homes for a period of time during the day, the re-entry process becomes a significant one, especially when it comes to our children. Listen in for techniques and ideas on how to create a smooth transition. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s chil...
A Guide To Self-Care For Parents
September 12, 2022 09:00 - 10 minutes - 19.8 MB#177: Self–care is about being compassionate toward self, allowing time to renew our energy, strengthen, reset, and recharge. Listen in to hear ideas, benefits, and the importance of creating your personal self-care plan. Ernest Hemmingway wrote in Men Without Women, “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that you are special too.” Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encou...
Cracking The Code In Parenting with Veenu Keller
September 05, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes - 61.9 MB#176: What if your wounds become your strengths? These strengths not only support you on your parenting journey but also create amazing opportunities to see your children in a new light, helping them to feel worthy and enough as they are. Listen in to this rich and powerful conversation with my special guest, Veenu, as she shares parenting nuggets and strategies that will help create more peace and joy in parenting. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. T...
Sibling Rivalry - Conversation with Cecilia and Jason Hilkey
August 29, 2022 08:00 - 37 minutes - 68.8 MBJoin Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. A rich conversation with Cecilia and Jason Hilkey where we discuss the beauty and benefits of sibling rivalry. When we look at this conflict as an opportunity to coach and teach skills to our children, we are, in essence, teaching social and emotional intelligence. Rivalry exists as a "normal" part of our children's lives. Listen to learn a little more about how ...
Be a Thoughtful Partner with Your Child with Kellie Doyle Bailey
August 22, 2022 08:00 - 37 minutes - 69.1 MBJoin Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. To be a thoughtful partner with our children involves a number of things. One of the most important is to look at our children through the lens of curiosity, interest, and compassion.
Embracing the adolescent years with Dr. Ken Ginsburg
August 01, 2022 08:00 - 26 minutes - 49.5 MBJoin Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. The adolescent years are super special times filled with possibilities, complexities, nuances, and missteps. Our children are all trying to answer the question "Who am I?" How we show up for them is of utmost importance. Listen in to this amazing discussion with Dr. Ken Ginsburg.
Ebbs and Flows of our Emotions
July 25, 2022 08:00 - 6 minutes - 12.5 MBJoin Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. We often give more power to our negative emotions. We tend to analyze the negative or be hyper-focused on the negative that we disallow ourselves from engaging in the positive emotions and moments that we experience.
Don’t Let Worry Linger
July 18, 2022 08:00 - 6 minutes - 12.3 MBJoin Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. Oftentimes we create worry in our life by borrowing someone else’s problem, trouble, or pain. We also tend to hyper-focus on what might happen to us in our own life. The what-ifs can be endless. Worry does not take away tomorrow’s troubles; it takes away today’s peace. Listen in to hear more.
Control is an Illusion
July 04, 2022 08:00 - 8 minutes - 15.1 MBJoin Sue for the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids where she shares the most popular episodes released over the last year. At times we think we can control all of the things our children do or don’t do. However, there is very little that is actually within our control. Control is an illusion.
Pick Your Battles
June 27, 2022 09:00 - 7 minutes - 14.4 MB#175: Picking our battles is a crucial part of parenting. However, why do we call it a battle? We are not really in a battle or war with our children. Listen in to learn more about the battle and how we can effectively utilize it in parenting. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Join this global community of liked minded parents. S...
Seeing Your Child For Who They Are, Not WhatThey Do
June 20, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 10.8 MB#174: As parents, it can be easy to over-emphasize and over-focus on our children’s successes and achievements. Sometimes this can leave our children feeling unseen, or only seen for their productivity and outcomes. Listen in to learn more about how to shift this focus in your parenting. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come jo...
Fostering A ”Can Do It” Attitude In Our Children
June 13, 2022 09:00 - 9 minutes - 17.8 MB#173: Empowering our children to have the confidence, courage, and strength to move through the trials and tribulations of everyday life is so important. This episode offers some wonderful tips to foster a “can-do” attitude in our children. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked minded parents....
Respecting Our Children
June 06, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 12.6 MB#172: Pam Leo once said, “however we treat the child, the child will treat the world.” This powerful statement holds significant meaning for those of us who identify as parents or guardians. Listen in to hear more about this important topic! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked minded paren...
Listening to Hear VS Listening to Respond
May 30, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 10.1 MB#171: How do we engage in conversation? How do we listen to our children? Over the years, I have worked with many clients that struggle with connecting deeply with their children. When we examined this, it ultimately came down to what, when, and how parents were listening to their children which were serving as barriers to connection. Listen in to learn more! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strate...
Cultivating the Parent-Child Relationship - A Lifelong Process
May 23, 2022 09:00 - 7 minutes - 14.5 MB#170: At every age and stage of our child’s development, the parent-child relationship is so important. It can be cultivated and reinforced daily. We are here as our child’s guides to teach them, share wisdom with them, and nurture their physical, emotional, and social development. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this...
Peace, Comfort and Non-Judgment
May 16, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 11.6 MB#169: Everything we experience goes through a filter in our minds. Our minds are automatically trained to judge. However, we can bring a shift to this powerful process. Listen in to learn more! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked minded parents. Sue, the founder of Conscious Parents, Thrivi...
The Parenting Lightbulb - A True Story
May 09, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 12.7 MB#168: Parenting lightbulbs are important. These are the moments where something brilliant clicks within us and we are able to see things in a different, perhaps more conscious way. Listen in to this beautiful story about one of my clients, a dad, and his beautiful lightbulb opportunity. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come joi...
Free Yourself From Guilt
May 02, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 11.6 MB#167: How do we define motherhood? Typically, it looks different for every mother; so, why do we constantly use the term “Good Mom” if motherhood takes a different style on each wearer. Listen in to hear 9 distinct ways that you can let go of the guilt on your parenting journey. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this ...
Those Teenage Years: Connection, Intention and Teaching, a personal story
April 25, 2022 09:00 - 8 minutes - 15.8 MB#166: The teen years offer us so many different opportunities to connect, teach and share information with our children. However, so many of us feel compelled, pushed, or perhaps programmed to do these years differently. Listen in to my personal story and pitfalls during this time. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join th...
The Meaning of Discipline
April 11, 2022 09:00 - 8 minutes - 16.6 MB#164: Sibling rivalry is a common experience in many families. How we bring attention to it is where our conscious parenting practices can take shape. Listen in to learn more about how important it is to use these experiences in our families as teachable moments and opportunities. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join th...
Technology and The Parent Child Relationship with Cindy Kaplan
April 04, 2022 09:00 - 27 minutes - 49.7 MB#163: Technology has taken a hold on many of us during the last few unprecedented years. However, it does not have to get in the way of our relationship and connection with our children. Listen in to hear stories and ideas as to how you can create deeper bonds, understanding and boundaries when it comes to technology in our homes. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s child...
Fostering A Healthy Relationship With Your To Do List
March 28, 2022 09:00 - 7 minutes - 14.4 MB#162: I used to have a to-do list every day, even when I wasn’t working. It was a measurement of my accomplishments each day. The more I was able to check off, the more accomplished and successful I felt that day or moment. But sadly, it was never enough. There is always something to add to the list. This can leave us feeling as if we are not successful or accomplished. This often leads to a lackluster feeling inside. Does this sound familiar to you? Listen In! Join the Conscious Parent...
Three Ingredients For A More Conscious Life
March 21, 2022 09:00 - 7 minutes - 14.5 MB#161: What does conscious living mean? I like to think of it as a recipe made up of many things, with three core ingredients: self-awareness, self-management, and self-control. Listen in to hear how this recipe can be part of your life. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked minded parents. ...
It’s A Hard Knock Life: Let’s Not Make It Harder on Ourselves
March 14, 2022 09:00 - 9 minutes - 17 MB#160: How do you bring love and kindness to yourself? What does that look like? For me, it means showing up without judgment and with lots of love for wherever I am in the moment. I remind myself that life is about imperfect moments. We are all imperfect beings. Perfection does not exist. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Com...
Connecting with Our Emotional Intelligence, with Stephanie Pinto
March 07, 2022 10:00 - 23 minutes - 43.1 MB#159: In order to live a life filled with joy, compassion, and understanding, we must bring acceptance and validation to our emotions, connect with the vocabulary to understand and share, and model and teach this to our children. This is how we build the foundation of emotional intelligence. Listen in to this fabulous conversation with my special guest. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies f...
Expectations, A Story About BedTime Age and Stage of Development
February 28, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 14.2 MB#158: When my girls were young, bedtime was such a special time in our house consisting of reading stories, singing songs, laughing and of course, connecting. But at a certain age, do our judgments and preconceived notions tell us this should look different? Listen in to hear more! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join th...
Triggering Moments in My Own Life
February 21, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 13.1 MB#157: Before my kids were born, I remember telling myself that history was not going to repeat itself. In my mind, hitting children as a form of punishment was not something I responded to well as a child and not something I was going to take forward into my own parenting practices. Easier said than done. Listen in to hear my own story. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today...
Let’s Not Lose Our Temper
February 14, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 16.2 MB#156: Why do we need to stop yelling and keep our temper in check? When we yell at our children, we increase their fear and their fight or flight response, which in turn disconnects us from our children. Yelling can actually scare our kids. Listen in to hear some ways that you can become more aware of your own emotions before they get the best of you. Let's Not Lose Our Temper! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, sup...
We cannot rescue our kids if we are drowning, with Natasha Daniels
February 07, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 52.8 MB#155: Anxiety and OCD are being diagnosed more and more these days. It is so important as parents that we anchor ourselves in our education, our support systems, and daily practices of self-care and tuning in. Listen in to this rich conversation with my special guest, Natasha Daniels. There are so many amazing takeaways from this episode. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising toda...
To Should Or Not To Should
January 31, 2022 10:00 - 6 minutes - 12.9 MB#154: How often do you hear and say the word should? It is a constant in our vocabulary, in advertisements, the mass media, and so on. Let me help you get acquainted with what is behind this word and how it might be showing up in your life. Listen in. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked mind...
To Be a Conscious Parent
January 24, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 13.1 MB#153: Conscious Parenting is not a set of rules for parents to follow but rather a set of beliefs about what children need to develop and thrive, each as unique beings on this planet. Listen in to hear more about this topic and take a few ideas away with you to practice in your own life and parenting. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and min...
Perfectionism: How NOT to fall into this mindset
January 17, 2022 10:00 - 9 minutes - 18.2 MB#152: Do you find that you are often running on overwhelm? Often, we strive for perfection or something close to it, but far from our present reality. This can cause us stress and overwhelm. Listen in to How Not To fall into this mindset! Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked minded parents...
Disappointment In Our Children
January 10, 2022 10:00 - 6 minutes - 12.6 MB#151: One of the most important things that we can do for our children is to simply listen. When they are feeling disappointed, it is important that we tune in and be present with them and for them. We do not need to fix or solve anything - just listen and validate. As Nicholas Sparks says, "It is impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life." Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and str...
Inviting Peace Into Your Life
January 03, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 14.4 MB#150: Inviting ease and peace into our life takes reflection and intent. It requires us to introspect and ask what brings us peace, what takes away our peace, and even who has the tendency to take away from it at times. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindful way. Come join this global community of liked minded parents. Sue, the founder of ...
Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids: Unlocking Your Child‘s Potential with Dr. L, The Parent Whisperer
December 27, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 56.9 MBEnjoy the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids for the month of December. Optimizing our child's potential starts with us. Dr. L shares three important parenting ingredients for us, the "superheroes" in our children's lives. Listen in to hear these ingredients and so much more in this rich episode. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Facebook today. This is a place for encouragement, support, ideas, and strategies for raising today’s children in a conscious and mindf...
Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids: Chaos, A Bridge to Connection with Wendy Silvers
December 20, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 53.5 MBEnjoy the Best of Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids for the month of December. Chaos can be overwhelming. Creating practices that help us through the chaos and bring calm and peace to ourselves and our children is key. Wendy Silvers shares some amazing tips on how to create this calm for both you and your children. Chaos can be the bridge to more connection, offering us opportunities to connect from a place of empathy and compassion. Join the Conscious Parents, Thriving Kids community on Fa...