The Gift of Self-Awareness | CP161

May 10, 2024

Exploring self-awareness in children, empathy, and emotional regulation. Jennifer Kolari discusses the importance of developing self-awareness in kids for better mental health and resilience. Strategies include gentle feedback, play-based scenarios, and modeling emotions. The podcast highlights the significance of communication, adaptability, and emotional resilience in children's development.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Exploring the Discrepancy in Self-Perception and Others' Perception

02:25 • 2min

Navigating Empowerment and Self-Awareness in Parenting

04:44 • 2min

Developing Children's Social Awareness Through Gentle Feedback and Play-Based Scenarios

07:14 • 2min

Building Self-Awareness in Children

09:22 • 3min

In today's episode, we're diving into an essential topic: self-awareness and how we, as parents, can gift to our children this crucial skill for fostering good mental health, strong social skills, and building resilience as they navigate the complexities of growing up.

By helping our children develop self-awareness, we empower them to handle life's challenges with confidence and grow into more grounded, emotionally intelligent adults.

Join me for an insightful conversation packed with actionable tips to support your child's personal growth.

Jennifer's Takeaways:

Intro (00:00)

Empathy + Emotional Regulation. (5:20)

Self Awareness Is Developmental (10:03)

Meet Jennifer Kolari

Jennifer Kolari is the host of the “Connected Parenting” weekly podcast and the co-host of “The Mental Health Comedy” podcast. Kolari is a frequent guest on Nationwide morning shows and podcasts in the US and Canada. Her advice can also be found in many Canadian and US magazines such as; Today’s Parent, Parents Magazine and Canadian Family.

Kolari’s powerful parenting model is based on the neurobiology of love, teaching parents how to use compassion and empathy as powerful medicine to transform challenging behavior and build children’s emotional resilience and emotional shock absorbers.

Jennifer’s wisdom, quick wit and down to earth style help parents navigate modern-day parenting problems, offering real-life examples as well as practical and effective tools and strategies.

Her highly entertaining, inspiring workshops are shared with warmth and humour, making her a crowd-pleasing speaker with schools, medical professionals, corporations and agencies throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

One of the nation’s leading parenting experts, Jennifer Kolari, is a highly sought- after international speaker and the founder of Connected Parenting. A child and family therapist with a busy practice based in San Diego and Toronto, Kolari is also the author of Connected Parenting: How to Raise A Great Kid (Penguin Group USA and Penguin Canada, 2009) and You’re Ruining My Life! (But Not Really): Surviving the Teenage Years with Connected Parenting (Penguin Canada, 2011).