Welcome to the Parenting Mentor Sessions

The Parenting Mentor Sessions is the place where real moms and dads call in and open up about their parenting struggles. Here, you can listen in on my conversations with these parents to get strategies, skills, and scripts to reduce the everyday anxiety that inevitably comes with being a parent. Today, I give some background. I offer my own story of raising two kids, and I share how I gradually learned what does and doesn't work, as well as what it does and doesn't mean to be a parent. I offer my philosophy about the role of a parent and talk about how everyday childrearing is more about the process than about the immediate results. I talk about why parents should be guides and support systems for their children, not human engineers. I discuss why you can't walk them through every situation, but why you can (and should) equip them to be able to navigate different situations on their own. Finally, I introduce my CLEARR Method.   "Parenting is not an eighteen-year engineering project." - Sue Groner   This week on The Parenting Mentor: All about the Parenting Mentor Sessions Sue's story Why parenting is often more about the process than about the immediate results Why you should let your kids move at their own pace Being a guide instead of an engineer The importance of instilling resilience and self-reliance The CLEARR Method   Meet the Parenting Mentor If you want to reduce the everyday stress and anxiety that inevitably come with parenting and learn to be a happier and more relaxed parent, then this is the place for you. Here, you can listen in on real sessions with parents who open up about the specific challenges they face with children from 2 to 22. Listen along and gain perspectives and strategies to help you parent with sanity and joy. Visit theparentingmentor.com for notes on this show, more episodes, and all the ways to subscribe, and don't forget to pick up my book, Parenting with Sanity and Joy: 101 Simple Strategies, which includes my Nine Golden Rules of Parenting. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts!   Spotify I Stitcher I Apple Podcasts I iHeart Radio I TuneIn I Google Podcasts