Melissa Hood and Elaine Halligan -TPPP9

This week’s episode is with Elaine and I, your hosts of this podcast and business partners. I first met Elaine when she was struggling to understand her son’s needs and to support him. I was the parenting coach to the Halligan family and am delighted to have witnessed Sam metamorphose from the troubled state he was in at 7 years old to a happy, confident and successful  young adult. Elaine and I have enjoyed many years of working together and 10 years as co-directors of The Parent Practice. So we thought it would be nice to wrap up this first season of podcasts by doing something together, despite being on opposite ends of the earth! By the wonders of modern technology we bring you our Christmas special! (Even if you don’t celebrate any festival at this time of year I think you will find some useful ideas and tips in here.  Listen to this episode with Elaine and I if you want to learn: How to resist pester power in our very consumerist society About getting clear what your values are How the 4 gift rule can put a cap on parental spending at Christmas How to encourage gratitude in children and a culture of appreciation in the family How perfectionism can make festive periods stressful and unreasonable expectations can lead to huge stress and we end up shouting at our children How to deal with critical relatives How to set things up through chat throughs and role plays so that children behave in ways a bit closer to our expectations How important it is for parents to get in training physically and emotionally before times when there are a lot of demands on us How to get your partner on board and share the load fully In our celebration of vulnerability and perfect imperfection I share one of my own Low Parenting Moments and what I learnt about parenting in public as a result. And Elaine also shares her top tip for raising children to be confident, happy and successful.  Links To get in touch with us: www.theparentpractice.com the parent practice on facebook and on instagram

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Welcome to The Parent Practice Podcast, the show for anyone who cares for and about children. We know you want your children to be happy, confident and successful and that you do your best to be a good parent. Sometimes you probably beat yourself up for not being good enough. Good parenting can be simple if you know how. We can support you here by exploring a range of topics to enable you to feel calmer and happier and to help you get that parenting manual you wish you'd had from the beginning. We are your hosts, Melissa Hood and Elaine Halligan. We’re passionate about positive parenting. We’ve developed expertise built up over many years of working with families. In this podcast we interview a whole range of different people in differing fields from authors, to therapists, to clinicians. They all have fascinating insights into this messy world of raising and educating kids. We share our experiences of raising our families. Between us we have 5 now-adult children and one and a half grandchildren and we walk the talk every day using these skills with our families. In the interests of celebrating perfect imperfection in every episode you’ll hear from our guests about one of their own low parenting moments and their top tips for raising happy, confident and successful children.