Episode 7: Parenting Coach & Licensed Marriage Therapist, Bette Alkazain.
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
Release Date: 09/08/2020
Episode 33: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 3
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“If you really try to give too much instruction at this age, you can really cause a child to struggle later on. So, just being supportive and motivating them to do the best of their abilities is really what we're going for.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Fundamental movement skills are important through the ages of two to five. Children grow and learn through their own developmental experiences, which creates unique...
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Episode 32: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 2
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“If I can feel them pushing down on my hands, if they're able to do it, when they're holding my hands, then we can kind of progress from there to kind of get an understanding of why they are struggling with doing it.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In Part Two of the Fundamental Movement Skills Series, Karen and Farah discuss how to support children in their developmental stages based on the way they learn. Every...
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Episode 31: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 1
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“As they [children] continue to grow, they keep building these little blocks on top of each one. And that's what enables them to be able to do these more complicated skills as they get older.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In Part One of the Fundamental Movement Skills Series, Karen and Farah explain fundamental movement skills and their importance in a child’s growth. They explore how sibling relationships,...
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Episode 30: What Does Fearless Mean To You?
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“No matter how successful you are or whatever success means to you, you can always benefit from a mentor- learning and growing, there's always so much more to do.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Fearless is a term we use in this podcast a lot - it’s one of our favorite things to ask our guests! From being fearless in the face of failures to being fearless in the face of great obstacles, there is nothing like that...
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Episode 29: Understanding Different Types of Learning
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“If they're struggling to gain a skill, and you directly focus in a way that they learn really well, it might be a much easier way for them to at least understand what you want them to do, and then have a greater willingness to want to keep trying.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In an entertaining and informative episode, Karen and Farah talk about the different types of learners. One could determine the styles in...
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Episode 28: Why is Mentorship SO Important
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“No matter how successful you are or whatever success means to you, you can always benefit from a mentor- learning and growing, there's always so much more to do.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Having a mentor in the early stages of your child’s adolescence could phenomenally help their overall development. That is why in today’s episode, Farah and Karen speak about the importance of a mentor or guide for children....
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Episode 27: Stress Vs Stressor & What they do to us
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
“No matter what struggle or challenge that we're going through, we will come out stronger on the other side.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In today’s episode, Karen and Farah talk about stress and break down the various coping strategies for stress. While we as adults struggle to deal with everyday anxiety and express our concerns circling the same, we fail to notice that kids could experience the same. The...
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Episode 26: Cosmic Wisdom Coaching | Teen Specialist , Robin Wald
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“It’s okay to fail, you're learning. It's not about perfectionism, it's about bringing joyfulness to it.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In an enlightening conversation today, meet Robin Wald, an expert coach, teacher, and educator. Robin walks us through her fulfilling life journey into becoming a certified wellness coach for children and explaining her lessons. We learn new ways to impart courage in children to...
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Episode 25 What Fitness For the whole Child Actually Mean?
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“Leaving in the space and the opportunity to try everything so that they can learn what works for them is definitely what they're going to need.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In today’s episode, Karen and Farah break down the concept of the whole child and talk about the importance of social-emotional learning in children. Karen and Farah discuss why they believe that every feeling is a good feeling and how it always...
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Episode 24 : Why Play is So Important?
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K & F_Play_Show Notes “Encouraging children to go outside in all weather builds resilience, but more importantly, it saves them from spending their life, merely tolerating the bad days in favor of a handful of good ones.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. How can you make your children more adaptable to the different challenges that come their way? Sometimes, bad weather could be your child’s best teacher. It could...
info_outline“The greatest gift we can give our children is the ability to cope with the inevitable difficulties of life.”
On this episode of the Student Fitness Expert Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed a licensed marriage therapist and family coach, Bette Alkazain.
Bette shares a unique perspective on parenting and how parents can create safe environments where the child can reflect and grow into the best version of their unique self.
Bette believes if the parent is lost in making the child happy, then the core job of parenting doesn’t happen. To put it in perspective, she underscores how raw practices like teaching your kids to be honest and tolerating discomfort can contribute to their success.
Tune in to learn how you can build resilience in your kids and set them up for ultimate success.
About the Guest:
Bette has been a parenting coach, licensed marriage therapist, and educator for over 25 years.
By the time she was 12 years old, her family was going through a second divorce. She struggled in a relationship with her dad and cried many nights while in highschool. Now, Bette helps other families go through difficult times with a little more ease and direction than she had.
Through her coaching practice, Bette provides solutions and proven methods to help families restore and maintain peace at home. As a parent and family coach, Bette also works with parents to set firm, loving limits with their children to raise them into resilient, self-reliant, empathetic adults. She is the author of two best-selling books Parenting Backwards and Potty Training 101. (Links below)
TimeStamps:
[00:41] About Bette, a snippet of her Journey
[2:29] What inspired Bette to become a therapist
[4:44] Best piece of advice for coaches on how to connect with kids
[8:01] How to support children with their emotions in the light of the current situation
[15:20] How can parents help kids to build resilience
[23:57] Bette shares the inspiration behind her Book: Parenting Backward
[28:40] What it takes to set your kids up for success
[33:57] Bette’s definition of being fearless
[37:38] Childhood experience that influenced the role fitness plays in Bette’s life
[45:54] Where to learn more from Bette
Quotes:
“Communicating is building a relationship of trust that helps kids to blossom and grow.”
“The greatest gift we can give our children is the ability to cope with the inevitable difficulties of life.”
“I accidentally got asked to teach a mommy and me class when a friend of mine was ill, and she asked me to step in that led to being a 14-year career of teaching mommy and me.”
“As parents, we don’t have to help our kids to get through the easy days. Our job is to help the kids cope with the hard feeling of getting through the hard days.”
“Where people tend to fall short in relationships, the most tends to be in communication.”
“Parents’ ultimate job is to prepare their kids for us to die. To deal with the ultimate loss.”
Resources Mentioned:
Highly Recommended Books:
- Parenting Backwards: https://amzn.to/2CoHPRR
- Potty Training 101: https://amzn.to/2WxL8wY
Connect with Bette:
Website: http://balancedparenting.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BalParenting