Connecting before we correct is our superpower as parents with Jennifer Kolari

Jennifer Kolari, M.S.W., R.S.W. Child and Family Therapist and Founder of Connected Parenting I am so honoured to have connected with Jennifer Kolari during such an important time in our lives. We discussed the power of empathy and compassion and why we need it to build a healthy immune system. Jennifer walked us through her parenting technique CALM and why even in the smallest moments we can make a huge impact with our children. I loved every part of this interview especially how as mothers we can always ‘repair through mirroring”. Jennifer shares, “there is a beautiful way to parent your children using empathy and compassion that builds resilience, helps with emotional regulation, speeds up neuroplasticity and strengthens the immune system. I teach parents to use language, compassion, and empathy as medicine. I believe that children are different today. They are spicy and feisty and they are built differently and we have an incredible responsibility to parent these children into strong, dynamic adults who are going to need to take on challenges and shift paradigms in the world”. Jennifer Kolari is 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 Toronto and San Diego, 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). Kolari is a frequent guest on Canada AM, CBC, Breakfast Television, CTV News Channel, and Global’s The Morning Show. Her advice can be found in many Canadian and U.S. magazines, such as Today’s Parent, Redbook, Parents Magazine and Canadian Family. Kolari is on Chatelaine magazine’s health advisory board and entertains and educates audiences with her powerful parenting model based on the neurobiology of love. Kolari’s wisdom, quick wit and down-to-earth style helps 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. Here is a special gift for Nicole's listeners. First module of Connected Parenting online Master Class: https://connected-parenting-online.mykajabi.com/offers/q58kitja/checkout Check out and share Jennifer’s weekly podcasts.  They are accessible on iTunes or in the blog section on our website www.connectedparenting.com.