Let's Start at the Very Beginning, a Very Good Place to Start

Today we'll start diving into our history. As an actor, part of the work of creating a role is to understand the history of the character (their backstory) and how it impacts the life they're living and the moments they're experiencing in the story being told. Their history dictates how they show up in the world of the play. Our history dictates how we show up in our world, in the role of parent. We'll explore why understanding our history – the history of how we were raised and its impact on how we parent our children, is so important. 

We’ll kick off our show with The Raise a Glass Series, get on to our questions to explore, and end with A Short Story Before We Go. MFA is the sometimes-musical, dramedy, in 3 acts, 1 intermission, the length of a sitcom designed to give mama’s (and any caregiver) a break in the day to breathe and reset along with a much needed audio hug.

Understand Your Parenting Backstory: get the exercise from today’s episode here

Episode transcript: available at https://www.mfaparentingedition.com/039 

Sources that helped inspire this episode:

·       Do Re Mi – Sound of Music movie

·       Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Official Video) - YouTube

·       Know thyself - Wikipedia

·       Parent | Definition of Parent by Merriam-Webster

·       BETTY HUTTON I Got The Sun in The Morning 1950 - Bing video

·       About the RHETI® — The Enneagram Institute (the test I took)

·       The Enneagram Personality Test (truity.com) (free test – I think I actually took this particular test 4 or 5 years ago)

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