A lot of you've reached out to me with questions around sensory issues, sensory integration, and how to support the development of the senses in our young children. For today's show, I invited a dear friend Lalla Carini who's been an extremely important teacher in my life for the past 14 years to share her wisdom and experience. She holds a tremendous amount of love and compassion around these topics and I'm so excited to share with you today. __ Thank you for taking the time to listen to this show. I hope that you keep up with the content I post, subscribe, and share your learnings with those that need to hear it. Your comments matter deeply to me so make sure you drop in and say 'Hello" __ Follow me online here ► Instagram https://www.instagram.com/littlesprigs/ ► Check out my Alexa Skill https://littlesprigs.com/dailyparentingtips ► Listen to the podcast EVERYWHERE podcasts are available https://littlesprigs.com/where-to-listen ► Website https://littlesprigs.com  

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How To Support Development of The Senses w/ Lalla Carini

If your child has some anxiety about separating, it can be super helpful for them to see you connecting with the teacher.  I would invite the parent to hold their child and sit down with me for tea. When the child witnesses the safety and trust that is present between parent and teacher, they can more easily trust themselves.  This can be more important than pressuring the child to open up to the teacher and accept them. Also, if you have rarely left your child, then some practice with family members or good friends is a good idea before school.  Practice your goodbye routine over and over at grandma’s house then when you do it on the first day, it will actually feel supportive. Enjoy The Show 

Preparing For The First Day of School

Our children stand before us with endless “What” and “Why” questions, they push back on our requests, refuse our meals, and challenge us to go back inside and come up with something better than, “Because I said so!” But the truth is, during these formative years, our children take in very little of our verbal communication with them. So many parents worry about crafting the perfect answer, offering the right activity, disciplining the most effectively, etc, when what matters the most is our internal world. They mimic the way we care, our devotion, our sense of purpose, our problem-solving strategies, our rigidity, the way we love… __ ► DM me your questions on Instagram: https://www.instagram.comlittlesprigs/ ► Check out my Alexa skill!: http://littlesprigs.com/dailyparentingtips __ Christina is Little Sprigs Founder and Parent Educator. With over a decade of experience in #earlychildhoodeducation, Christina has shifted her focus from spending her days running her Waldorf inspired home based #preschool, to supporting parents, creating content and sharing her voice through video, written word and audio content for your enjoyment. __ Subscribe to my Newsletter for exclusive content and parenting inspiration here: http://littlesprigs.com/emailform

How To Get Your Child To Clean Up After Themselves

    Christina is Little Sprigs Founder and Parent Educator. With over a decade of experience in early childhood education, Christina has shifted her focus from spending her days running her Waldorf inspired home-based preschool to supporting parents, creating content and sharing her voice through video, written word and audio content for your enjoyment. ► DM me your questions on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littlesprigs ► Check out my Alexa skill: http://littlesprigs.com/dailyparentingtips ► Subscribe to my Newsletter for exclusive content and parenting inspiration here: https://littlesprigs.com/emailform

What To Do When Your Child Starts Hitting Another Child

Our children stand before us with endless “What” and “Why” questions, they push back on our requests, refuse our meals, and challenge us to go back inside and come up with something better than, “Because I said so!” But the truth is, during these formative years, our children take in very little of our verbal communication with them. So many parents worry about crafting the perfect answer, offering the right activity, disciplining the most effectively, etc, when what matters the most is our internal world. They mimic the way we care, our devotion, our sense of purpose, our problem-solving strategies, our rigidity, the way we love… __   ► DM me your questions on Instagram: https://www.instagram.comlittlesprigs/ ► Check out my Alexa skill!: http://littlesprigs.com/dailyparentin... __ Christina is Little Sprigs Founder and Parent Educator. With over a decade of experience in #earlychildhoodeducation, Christina has shifted her focus from spending her days running her Waldorf inspired home based #preschool, to supporting parents, creating content and sharing her voice through video, written word and audio content for you enjoyment.   __ Subscribe to my Newsletter for exclusive content and parenting inspiration here: http://littlesprigs.com/newsletter

How To Prepare Your First Child For Your Second Child's Arrival

Today’s conversation is a dense one.   I would recommend listening when you are not distracted or multi tasking. We are headed into about an hour with a dear friend of mine named Rob Scott. He has spent the last decade of his life working with hundreds of thousands of people, shifting their identities, and showing them how to evolve their consciousness and get incredible results across all areas of their businesses, their health, their relationships, and their entire lives. I have been blessed with the opportunity to work with Rob myself in a few different ways over the past 4 years and I am so grateful.  What I find so profound is that all of the shifts I made while working with him have been impossible to unsee. And the illumination of what is truly serving me in my life, being able to let go of all that isn’t, has allowed me to show up in service to you parents in a whole new way. So I am really excited to share this conversation with you.   Much Love. -Christina

Useful Tips For Parenting and Life w/ Rob Scott

Meg is a women’s empowerment coach + educator, a yoga teacher and mama with a passion for helping the modern day feminine leader to  transform their wellness journey into their wholeness journey And then to unleash their gifts and innate ability to bring about social change in the world. She does this through personal coaching, retreats, yoga classes and online programs – each of them curated to help you embody your feminine essence, release the stagnant energy that might be holding you back and reclaim the part of you that longs to be expressed. She resides in Australia and was generous enough to wake up at 6am to have this heart to heart chat with me.  So enjoy it, I am sending you all so much love. -Christina Learn More about Meg here: https://beyondbeingwell.com/

From Wellness to Wholeness w/ Meg Berryman

Today's guest is a renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development. Rather than offering quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them. Learn more here: https://drgabormate.com/ In service, Christina

Understanding ADHD, Addiction, and Stress as a Coping Mechanism w/ Dr. Gabor Maté

Today I invited a dear friend and fellow conscious parenting guide, Lori Petro, to join me for a very important conversation. She is the founder of Teach Through Love. Teach standing for:Transforming the Emotional Abuse of CHildren She is a Speaker, Child Advocate, & Parent Educator and a mom on the spectrum. Her mission is to raise the global awareness of empathy, tolerance, & peaceful conflict resolution through media outreach, community building, parent-teacher education, & sharing her personal journey of being the kid no one understood. After an emotionally challenging childhood and a personal journey toward healing and self-awareness, Lori became passionate about changing the way we speak to each other. Which is why I knew she would be the perfect guest to reach out to today, I think you will to. Connect with Lori Here: Website: https://www.teach-through-love.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TEACHthroughLOVE/

Tools For Conscious Communication w/ Lori Petro

Mark is the author of the book, Elevated Leadership. He is a veteran educator in social and emotional learning and a frequent speaker and trainer on the topics of education, team empowerment, and effective management. He also speaks regularly to parents/teachers and has created a curriculum on effective ways to build positive relationships with your children. Check him out at: https://elevatedleader.com/  

Elevated Leadership w/ Mark Greenburg

It can feel impossible to speak our truth when it has been dismissed and de-valued our entire life. Especially when our subconscious has connected speaking out to experiencing pain. It can feel scary to find out that our truth looks very different from who our parents think we should be. Every human walking the earth has a story. As we come into contact, we cannot help but to project our story onto each other. When we take the time to get to know our own story, our own beliefs, our own limitations, the more we begin to see what belongs to us and what belongs to the other. If we are blind to this when we have children, they quickly become the screens for our personal movie.

The Truth Of Our Voice

When our child is tantruming, pushing back or having a difficult time it can be challenging for us to hold space in that moment because we have so many unshed tears ourselves.    Years and years of suppressed emotions that then get "triggered" when our child is going through something or an experience that we have not yet had the opportunity to work through or release ourselves.    So in the heat of the moment, it can be difficult to untangle which emotions belong to us and which ones belong to our child.   A mentor once offered me a very useful shift in perspective and that's what I want to share with you today.   Much Love, Christina           

It's OK to Let Your Sads Out

It can be exhausting to go through every day guiding a young child this way and that way, moment by moment. When you develop a routine it will carry the whole family and the child quickly learns what is coming next which supports them to go with the flow. By setting a routine you are deciding ahead of time, with your partner and any other caregivers, what your limits are and where they lie. This way when something unexpected comes up, you are supported by this framework.

Letting Go of Agenda

Thank you for listening in.   I hope that you keep up with the content I post, subscribe, and share your learnings with those that need to hear it.   Your comments matter deeply to me so make sure you drop in and say 'Hello"   ► Check out my Alexa skill here: https://littlesprigs.com/dailyparentingtips   ► Follow me online here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littlesprigs/   Much Love, Christina

Transitions

Emotional and social intelligence grows and develops through relationship and primarily through the experiences that a child has with his or her parents. When we offer our children empathy and help them to cope with negative feelings like anger, sadness, and fear, we create a foundation of loyalty and trust that our children carry with them throughout their lives. This is a quick story of how I approach this with my daughter. In Service, Christina

How To Build Your Child's Emotional Intelligence

Welcome to The Little Sprigs Podcast, hosted by Christina Rochelle. On this podcast, you'll find a mix of interviews and recordings focusing on early childhood education, communication, mindfulness. Follow me on social @littlesprigs to keep up with the latest and say 'Hey'

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