Positive Impacts of Raising Your Children Simply with Kim John Payne

When you ask parents what they want for their kids, the typical
response is “to be happy”. But how do you raise successful and
happy kids? Dive in as Kim John Payne talks about the pillars of
simple parenting and techniques to help establish strong family
relationships, trust, and connection to assist children in being
more future-oriented and more prepared for the inevitable
societal hurdles.


Key takeaways to listen for


Key assets for strengthening children's emotional
intelligence

CPTSD: Symptoms, behavior, and recovery

Resetting expectations of what family really needs

Resources to create a consistent parenting and rhythms

Simplifying parenting style to keep family’s mental health

How to raise a future-oriented child

Impacts of flow principle to a parent-child interaction and
parents' well-being



Resources mentioned in this episode


Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne and Lisa M. Ross 

Emotionally Resilient Tweens and Teens by Kim John Payne and
Luis Fernando Llosa

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman



 


About Kim John Payne 


Kim John Payne is a consultant and trainer to over 230 U.S.
independent and public schools. He has been a school counselor,
adult educator, consultant, researcher, educator and a private
family counselor for twenty seven years. He regularly gives
key-note addresses at international conferences for educators,
parents, and therapists and runs workshops and trainings around
the world.


He has also consulted for educational associations in South
Africa, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada,
Australia, and the United Kingdom, Thailand and China. Kim has
worked extensively with the North American and UK Waldorf
educational movements. He has served as Director of the
Collaborative Counseling program at Antioch University New
England. He is the Director of the Simplicity Project, a multi
media social network that explores what really connects and
disconnects us to ourselves and to the world. He is also the
Founding Director of The Center for Social Sustainability, an
organization that has trained thousands of teachers, parents and
students in the Three Stream Process that gives social, emotional
and behavioral support to children who struggle in the school
environment.


In addition to authoring the #1 Best Seller Simplicity Parenting
. Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier
and More Secure Kid, published by Random House Penguin in 2009,
he also authored The Games Children Play, (1996) published by
Hawthorn Press ,The Soul of Discipline (2015 Random
House/Penguin), co-authored Whole Child Sport How to Navigate
Child & Youth Sports. and Being At Your Best When Your Kids
Are At Their Worst (Shambhala Press 2019). His books have been
translated into 27 languages.


He has appeared frequently on television including ABC, NBC, CBS,
Fox; on radio with the BBC, Sirius/XM, CBC & NPR and in print
including being featured in Time Magazine, Chicago Tribune,
Parenting, Mothering, Times Union and the LA Times.


Kim strives to deepen understanding and give practical tools for
life that arise out of the burning social issues of our time. He
lives on a farm in Ashfield, Massachusetts with his wife and two
children.


Connect with Kim


Website: Simplicity Parenting

Podcast: The Simplicity Parenting Podcast



 


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