Practical Research Parenting Podcast| evidence-based | raising children | positive parenting
Nicole Weeks: PhD/Masters Provisional Psychologist, Mum of two, Science-Practitioner
33 episodes
9 months ago
Science-based parenting. Join me as I learn through research and practice about babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and how we can form lasting and positive attachments with our children . If you have a child born since 2011, this podcast is for you. The first few episodes will focus on sleep, then I'll get into discipline, from there, I'll investigate questions that arise about my kids (born 2012 and 2014), and from my listeners.
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Science-based parenting. Join me as I learn through research and practice about babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and how we can form lasting and positive attachments with our children . If you have a child born since 2011, this podcast is for you. The first few episodes will focus on sleep, then I'll get into discipline, from there, I'll investigate questions that arise about my kids (born 2012 and 2014), and from my listeners.
Practical Research Parenting Podcast| evidence-based | raising children | positive parenting
40 minutes 40 seconds
9 years ago
PRP016: Becoming a Mother
Show Notes: Becoming a Mother
Dr Koa Whittingham (Parenting from the Heart - www.koawhittingham.com) shares some wonderful advice and tools for smoothing the transition when becoming a mother, through a discussion of her book "Becoming Mum".
Summary
Psychological transition to motherhood includes:
Recreating a rich and rewarding life.
Constantly keeping track of another dependent person.
Forming a new relationship.
Becoming Mum
Evidence-based guide through the transition to motherhood
Grounded in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and other Cognitive Behavioural Therapies including:
Compassionate Mind Therapy
Behavioural activation
Incorporates Attachment Theory.
Fourth Trimester.
Mindful Practice - Keeping yourself in the here and now - while you are doing anything.
Particularly enriching during interactions with children.
Find the rewarding elements of settling crying babies - focus on the moment not what you want/need to be doing.
Mindful walks.
Listen for the Mindfulness of Child Meditation from the book.
Role of Values.
Values are what matters most to you. They can never be acheived, they guide you every day.
There are many different ways to live the same values.
Mindfulness is powerful, but needs Ethics or Values to direct you in the direction you want to go.
Listen for a values-finding exercise.
Links
Becoming Mum can be bought directly from the Becoming Mum Website, is on Amazon, and most other online bookstores. If it is not in your physical bookstore, please request it.
Parenting from the Heart: www.koawhittingham.com.
Dr Koa Whittingham's Meditations.
Possums Sleep Intervention: Possums Online, and Feed your baby to sleep - The possums sleep intervention new recommendations and Podcast Episode PRP017.
For more great resources on Mindfulness and ACT for parents, check out these links:
Free Mindfulness Meditation App for pregnant couples: Mind the Bump .Org .Au
9 Tips for Mindful Mothering
ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with attachment with Newborns
This is the 3rd Episode in the series, here are links to the rest of the series:
PRP014: Angry Parents Part 1 Acting inline with values despite anger
PRP015: Angry Parents Part 2 Acting inline with values despite anger
PRP016: Becoming a Mother
PRP017: The Possums Sleep Intervention Part 1
PRP018: The Possums Sleep Intervention Part 2
PRP019: The Possums Sleep Intervention Part 3
PRP020: The Possums Sleep Intervention Part 4
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Practical Research Parenting Podcast| evidence-based | raising children | positive parenting
Science-based parenting. Join me as I learn through research and practice about babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and how we can form lasting and positive attachments with our children . If you have a child born since 2011, this podcast is for you. The first few episodes will focus on sleep, then I'll get into discipline, from there, I'll investigate questions that arise about my kids (born 2012 and 2014), and from my listeners.
