This week on our WCTE Get Ready To Learn radio show, host Cynthia Whittaker Putman will be joined by two very special guests: Tara Brown and Chris Parrott.
Tara Brown - The Connection Coach is a great friend of WCTE who speaks to audiences around the world, inspiring them to embrace the power of authentic connections and high expectations in order to unleash the potential in our youth.
Tara introduced us to Chris who is a BPS Chartered Counseling Psychologist based in New York. Chris’ work (Be Curious Not Furious) is focused on supporting teens both socially and emotionally and she speaks at conferences, schools and other community forums.
These women are movers and shakers in their communities. Both are authors and true professionals who understand the importance of connection and having a sense of self.
Some of the things we covered in the radio show include the importance of CONNECTION over curriculum. We know parents are feeling stressed from carrying the burden of at-home learning and these experts stress the importance of keeping a strong connection with your children.
Staying connected and managing emotions in healthy ways will have a far more positive impact on families in the long run as opposed to whether or not you completed each and every school task perfectly each day.
As beloved speaker and author Brene Brown says, “If you don’t feel it, you can’t heal it.” We’ll be diving deeper into what this really means and how self-regulation is something that can be helpful no matter age you are.
Just what is “self-regulation?”
According to the Child Mind Institute, “Self-regulation is the ability to manage your emotions and behavior in accordance with the demands of the situation. It includes being able to resist highly emotional reactions to upsetting stimuli, to calm yourself down when you get upset, to adjust to a change in expectations, and to handle frustration without an outburst. It is a set of skills that enables children, as they mature, to direct their own behavior towards a goal, despite the unpredictability of the world and our own feelings.”
You can learn more about Tara on her website, https://theconnectioncoach.org/. You can learn more about Chris on her blog, BeCuriousNotFurious.net
They are also both active on social media, so follow them to engage on those platforms as well:
- Twitter: @tarambrown
- YouTube: youtube.com/connectioncoach
- Tara Brown - The Connection Coach
- Twitter: @BeCuriousNF
- Instagram: BeCuriousNotFurious
- Be Curious Not Furious
Additional free information with more than 60 teen-related topics ranging from mental health, andn self-esteem to drugs & alcohol can be found at YourSelfSeries.com.
Chris also invites our listeners to join a support group which meets Fridays at 1 p.m. central. Access it by visiting SusanBauerfeld.com and signing up. You’ll be supplied with a link to the zoom call.
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