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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

Raising Adults: Future Focused Parenting

Release Date: 06/07/2021

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Raising Adults: Future Focused Parenting

We finally made it back into the laundry room! No, we aren't relaunching the show, but we thought it would be fun to update our listeners and say a quick hello! Sending love to our FFP Family and hoping 2022 is off to a great start. - Kira and Deana

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Raising Adults: Future Focused Parenting

In today's final episode of Raising Adults, we remind you that you have all the tools you need to crush parenting and enjoy the journey as an FFP!   "We want you to know that you have all the tools you need to move forward without us!" - Kira Dorrian   "Intentionality comes from a strong why. If you know why you're doing what you're doing, it does make it easier to make those strong decisions that are best, rather than the ones that might be expedient or get the behavior you don’t like to stop. " - Deana Thayer   Today's final discussion includes:  Three...

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Raising Adults: Future Focused Parenting

Kira and Deana share their decision to close Raising Adults Podcast and Future Focused Parenting. The final episode will air on Monday, December 13th. They also share details for the Future Focused Patrons and how to reach out for parent coaching in the future.

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Raising Adults: Future Focused Parenting

Sometimes after a recording has finished or an episode has aired, Kira and Deana realize that they have something they wish they had said. In today’s episode, they share those tidbits including a few extra ideas for talking about sex with kids, extra thoughts on peer pressure and more.   Today's discussion includes:  A few extra birds and the bees guidelines (3:12) The power of voting with your dollar and the power of boycotting (8:06) An extra tool for combating peer pressure (9:59) The story behind Kira's tattoo (13:25) Imposter syndrome with parenting (16:04) ...

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Raising Adults: Future Focused Parenting

In today's episode of Raising Adults, Deana and Kira break down the three types of consequences, how to use them, and when to use them. If you find yourself asking what's an appropriate consequence, this episode is for you.    "The design isn't to be punitive. The design is to help the world make sense because we are our children's teachers for how to navigate the world later on." - Deana Thayer   Today's discussion includes:  The importance of follow-through and meaning what you say (6:36) Empty threats lose power over time (7:36) First type: A Natural...

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In today's episode of Raising Adults, Deana and Kira have the pleasure of chatting with Heather Chauvin, a leadership coach who helps overwhelmed, ambitious women become leaders at work and home while conquering their fears. She's also the host of the Mom Is In Control Podcast, where she reveals her most vulnerable truths about womanhood, marriage, parenting, living through stage four cancer, and running a successful business without burning out.   "Women walk around this earth pretending that they are robots, pretending that they don't matter. When you think about it, we probably...

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In today's episode of Raising Adults, Deana and Kira dive into how we as parents handle and cope with our kids being different from us. 

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In today's episode of Raising Adults, Deana and Kira are back with an important topic: teaching kids about social justice. Because she is not a DEI educator, Kira shares who she is learning from and what the application looks like in her home.   "We cannot help the next generation to dismantle racism, challenge racial inequality, and imagine an America of inclusion, if we, as white parents, do not openly discuss the oppression and injustices that are inherent in the very design of our country, which was established by white men who believed that they were the superior race."...

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In today's episode of Raising Adults, Deana and Kira tackle a listener question: What do you do if you are in a parenting team and your partner isn't future focused or doesn't want to be? 

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n today's episode of Raising Adults, Deana and Kira dive into the three pillars of the Future Focused Parenting Philosophy and how it can be applied to all of your parenting journey.

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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Today on Raising Adults we dive into this age-old question that so many kids get peppered with from adults. It's an interesting question considering so many of us are probably still trying to figure it out ourselves. Brace yourselves; Kira came up with an acronym in this episode! So, join us today as we unpack this famous question and what we really think about it. 
 
"Now I think it's one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child - What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something, and that's the end." - Michelle Obama.
 
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.’ They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon.
 
We'll discuss: 
  • Kira shares what she wanted to be when she grew up (5:16)
  • Kira's why (6:06)
  • Deana shares what she wanted to be when she grew up (7:51)
  • Deana's why (9:10)
  • Connecting with children and generational gaps (10:04)
  • Being a Future Focused Parent and having room to be fluid (12:15)
  • Kira talks about feeling locked in to a decision she made at nine (16:27)
  • The importance of knowing your child's personality (17:44)
  • Giving kids the room and option to change their mind freely (20:15)
  • Let's change the "What do you…" to "Who do you…" (21:46)
  • Kira's on the spot funny acronym W.H.O. (24:27)
  • If Deana and Kira could change jobs right now and do anything - what would it be? (26:36)
 
Don't miss this episode as we dive into this classic question and how we can change the conversation to be more Future Focused for our kids. 
 
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