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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom Mindset10 Things Your Kids Hate and What to Do About ThemDo your kids hate to stop playing video games or don’t want
to turn off the TV when you tell them to?
Do they groan when you ask them to unload the dishwasher?
Are they passing the veggies or hate reading or math because
it's really hard for them?
Have they ever said I hate you?
Do they hate being told what to do or not doing things
on their own especially if they are two or three years old or strong-willed?
Perhaps they hate feeling misunderstood or un...2024-11-2633 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWho Are You, Mama?The other day we were all in the kitchen and got to talking about tall people and short people. Someone made
the comment, I don’t want to be tall.
I said, Guys, you grow up to be exactly the height God designed you to be. That’s the height that is perfect for you.
Then we started talking about the benefits of being tall. How you could reach high things. And my son blurts out, I’m going to reach goals!
Now this episode is not about setting and reaching goals...2024-08-2013 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetHelping Your Child ForgiveWe hurt people and people hurt us. Are you teaching your children how to forgive?
I’m Kimberly Muhtar and I’m sharing a few scripts to help you to speak life to your children and students as you teach them how to forgive.
Award your child with the Speak Life Badge that says, "I forgive" found in the I Am Special and I Am Priceless sticker books.
Get your Speak Life Badges sticker award books and the I
Am Loved Journal for kids today at speaklifebadges.com.
2024-08-0306 min
REJOICING IN MOTHERHOOD - Christian moms, Spirit-filled parenting, marriage, homeschool, big family155. Speak Life Over Your Kids! with Kimberly MuhtarDeath and LIFE are in the power of the tongue! Today I'm joined by my new friend, Kimberly Muhtar, a mom of 3 and teacher/tutor who overcame her negative inner dialogue through the power of truth from the Word of God. She now loves to teach other parents how to speak life over themselves and their children. This is a dynamic, practical conversation that you are going to love!
Join the conversation or ask a question here!
Connect with me on my email list.
Let's be friends on Instagram!
Connect with Kimberly...2024-07-2938 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom Mindset8 Things I Have Done Wrong in 20 Years of MarriageMy husband and I are celebrating 20 years of marriage! And in honor of that, I’m sharing 8 things I have done wrong in our 20 years of marriage.
I wrote in my journal July 2012 “I am negative. I speak things that make Andrew feel like he can’t do anything right. I smile less. I am frustrated. Why Andrew still loves me, I don’t know. He has a lot to put up with.”
What else can I say but that our 20 years of marriage hasn't been rosy and wedding bliss! But I look forward to forty more years o...2024-06-1221 min
What Are You Made Of?Empowering Moms and Transforming Lives: A Conversation with Kimberly MuhtarJoin "C-Roc" on this insightful episode of the What Are You Made Of? Show as he welcomes Kimberly Muhtar, a homeschool mom, tutor, author, and podcast host. Kimberly shares her journey of personal growth and empowerment, revealing how she transformed her mindset from negativity to positivity, impacting her family, her students, and herself. From struggling with criticism and self-doubt to embracing a renewed mindset of love, encouragement, and truth, Kimberly's story resonates with mothers and parents alike.
Delving into her mission of speaking life and renewing thoughts, words, and responses, Kimberly discusses her innovative...2024-04-2230 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetStop Your Child’s Crying and Fighting to Get What He WantsHow do you get your child to stop crying and fighting to get what he wants?
You tell your toddler to share and he screams “No!”
You say “Not today” to a candy bar while at the grocery store, and they turn on the whining and begging.
In this episode of the Renewed Mama Podcast, I share what you can say and do, Mama, to stop the tantrums.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetMy Child Says NO! and Refuses to ListenAlicia asked, “What do I do when my child continually says “No” when I’m trying to speak to him about kindness.” His “No” is an “I don’t want to listen to you” and keeps interrupting her. How can she speak to her son and keep his attention?
Today, I am highlighting a past episode that didn’t get the listens and love it deserves. The original episode is: Help! My Child Continually Says No! – Renewed Mama Podcast Episode 31 https://speaklifebadges.com/help-my-child-continually-says-no/
Push play to this episode to hear what you can do when your...2024-01-1915 min
Her Teacher Voice: Podcasting For Teachers, Start A Podcast, Teacherpreneur, Side Hustle, TPTHow To Defeat The Lies With The Power of Words! With Kimberly MuhtarWhat is the magnitude of influence of our very own words? They are so powerful that they can make or break our confidence. The lies we have living in our own minds negative thoughts and beliefs can hold us back. The truth however can make us secure and give us confidence to move forward.
Today I'm joined by the beautiful Kimberly Muhtar, Educator, Entrepreneur, and Podcaster. She is also the creator of Speak Life Badges! Today, she teaches us the power of the spoken word over ourselves and our students and she will encourage...2024-01-1218 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetYour Thoughts Matter with Mental Health and Depression with Special Guest Brittni ClarksonHow important are your thoughts if you deal with mental health and depression?
Brittni Clarkson shares her story of working through mental health, depressive episodes, and suicidal thoughts.
She shares how important the thoughts and words we say to ourselves really are. Even the thoughts we put on someone else
because we’re sure they are thinking that about us influences our mental health.
If you have ever blown something out of proportion in your mind….You know….made it a bigger problem than it really was, than you’ll relate to her lasagna sto...2023-11-3041 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWho is God and What Does He Say About Me?“Life is miserable living by what others say about you instead of what God says about you.” - Bailey
Are you living by what others say about you or what God says about you?
When you look in the mirror, who do you see? Do you see what God says about you or what others think and say? Maybe you had negative labels spoken over you as a child as Bailey did. Or you are living by what you perceive other people think or say about you.
To truly live as a renewed Mama, you...2023-11-1421 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhen Positive Labels Help and Hurt ChildrenDo positive labels help or hurt children? We talked about how negative labels hurt children (during Episode 83). We heard Bailey’s story of how she was labeled as too loud, too much, energetic, stupid, wild, and an outcast.
All of those negative labels made her feel like “a bag of crap, misunderstood, and not worthy of anything good.”
Well, what about positive labels? We can still speak positive labels over our children, right?
This is a great question because there is a good argument for how
positive labels can help and hurt children. Once you list...2023-11-1021 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetStop Labeling Children: How Negative Labels HurtHow does labeling your children hurt them? What is labeling a
child? Is it only negative labels that affect a child or can positive labels hurt them, too?
Maybe you were negatively labeled as a child and you know how
that has hurt you and has stayed with you into adulthood. If you don’t want that to be repeated in your child’s life, you’ll want to tune in to this episode.
I’m talking about the dangers negative labels have on
children. We’ll hear Bailey’s story about how she and...2023-11-0820 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetGet Rid of Weeds in Your Life, MamaWeeds! We have all pulled weeds before, right? My summer job as a kid used to be weeding the garden.
Have you ever considered that you have weeds in your life? Your weeds could be wrong thinking, lies, shame, defeat, discouragement, and past mistakes.
Your life is the sum of what you think and what you speak, so grab those gardening gloves and your shovel. We are going to get
down in the dirt and get rid of the weeds in your life, Mama. Are you with me?
Let's keep the conversat...2023-10-2418 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom Mindset12 Tips for Back to School SuccessIt’s back to school time. Whether your children go to school or you homeschool, I’m sharing 12 tips to help you and your children
have a successful school year.
Let's keep the conversation going! Share in the comments the one or two tips you needed to hear for back to school success.
And while you’re at it, share this episode with another mama who needs encouragement, too. https://speaklifebadges.com/back-to-school-success/
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetHelp Your Children Face Their Ugly FeelingsWhen your child’s emotions get ugly and there are tears and tantrums, what they believe is more important than how they behave.
You want to fix the behavior immediately especially in the Walmart aisle. But it’s time to be more concerned about what
your child believes when their ugly feelings rise up than how they behave.
Here’s three tips for how you can help your child face their ugly feelings and form a proper belief about who they are.
Let's keep the conversation going! Share in the comments which trut...2023-09-1925 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhat All Mothers Need to Hear - Part 2Hey, Mama! Whatever you are going through – the good, the bad, and the ugly – here are fifteen truths that all mothers need to hear.
My encouragement to you is coming right out of the Speak Life Badges sticker award books!
I know that Speak Life Badges sticker badges and scripts are for kids; but I promise that you’ll be encouraged and uplifted by these truths, too. They are for you, too, Mama!
💬 Let's keep the conversation going! Share in the comments which
truths you needed to hear today. And while you’re at it, s...2023-06-2916 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhat All Mothers Need to Hear - Part 1What is it that all mothers need to hear?
Motherhood is wonderful and crazy, exhausting and rewarding all at the same time.
Whatever you are going through – the good, the bad, and the ugly – here are fourteen truths that all mothers need to hear.
You are in for a real treat because my encouragement to you is coming right out of the Speak Life Badges sticker award books!
I know that Speak Life Badges sticker badges and scripts are for kids; but I promise that you’ll be encouraged and uplifted by these...2023-06-2819 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetStop Yelling at Your Child When You Step on LegoIf you catch yourself shouting at your kids because you stepped on Lego again even after you told them ten times to clean them up, here’s how you can try again this time not yelling at them.
We give our children the chance to try again when they throw a temper tantrum, meltdown, or disrespect you or a sibling. We let them try again to teach them how to respond in a better way.
Sometimes, Mama, we need to give ourselves a chance to try again when we don’t respond in the be...2023-06-1903 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetGet it All Done as a MomHow can you get it all done as a mom?
Catch yourself saying, “I have so many things to do today. I don’t have enough time to get it all done. I’m always running behind.”
Are you hard on yourself saying, “I should have done this yesterday”?
Do you make a to-do list with a “reasonable” amount of things on the list, but it’s really way more things than you can practically do in a day?
Here’s how can you get it all done as a mom even when it feels like...2023-06-1521 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhy I Stopped Saying, “I Don’t Have Time for This” as a MomCatch yourself saying, “I don’t have time for this!” No time for temper tantrums. No time for not sharing. No time for sibling arguments. No time to clean up spilled milk or broken dishes.
Listen in, Mama! Here’s why I stopped saying, “I don’t have time for this” as a Mom.
This is the Try Again, Your New Mama Script Monday series on the Renewed Mama Podcast.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetHandle Sibling Conflict Well in Your HomeConflict. It’s a part of life. Sibling Conflict. It’s gonna happen in your home.
I’m sharing how you can handle sibling conflict well in your home so that there is less arguing, teasing, and siblings annoying each other and lots more peace, joy, and everyone getting along.
Even better yet, let’s help your children handle the conflict on their own, successfully solving their own disagreements. That’s a life skill we want them to have.
💬 Let's keep the conversation going! Share in the comments which of the three tips I s...2023-06-0817 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetUse Words to Describe Your Life or to Change ItHey there, Mama. I want to challenge you today to stop using your words to describe your life and to start using your words to change it.
💬 Let's keep the conversation going! Share in the comments what words you will stop using to describe your life and what new words you will use to
change it. https://speaklifebadges.com/use-words-to-describe-your-life-or-to-change-it/
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetTeach Your Children Honor by Putting Toys AwayCatch yourself shouting at your kids because their toys are all over the place? Can’t sit down on the couch because it is full of stuffed animals?
Teach your children to honor others by putting their toys away when they are done playing with them.
This is the Try Again, Your New Mama Script Monday series on the Renewed Mama Podcast.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetTeach Your Child to Clean Up ToysHelping another Mama who asked, “I have a parenting problem. I would love your advice for my girls. They are messy with toys and food dishes left
everywhere. I asked them nicely many times and sometimes angrily to clean up. I tell them to put away their toy before getting something else
out. They blame each other. I tell them they have to clean up whatever mess they made. They say that they didn’t make the mess and I say, ‘Neither did I but I still help clean up.’ Sometimes I clean it up while they are at school because i...2023-05-2514 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetSummer Time Fun Ideas for Children and ParentsLooking for fresh new ideas of things to do with your children this summer?
Here’s nineteen summer time fun ideas you can do at home with little to no cost using what you already have in your house. Let’s keep the fun, creativity, and peace in your summer time with your kids.
💬 Let's keep the conversation going! Share in the comments what you and your children enjoy doing during the summer. https://speaklifebadges.com/summer-time-fun-ideas-for-children-and-parents/
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetTeach Children Their Identity in Jesus with Rachel HillikerRachel Hilliker joins me on the Renewed Mama Podcast to share about teaching your children their identity in Jesus. Rachel and her husband Ben are the authors of the beautiful book for parents and children called God’s Masterpiece: Identity Truths for Children.
CONNECT with Rachel and Ben Hilliker at https://rachelhilliker.com/books
SHOP God’s Masterpiece: Identity Truths for Children and God’s Masterpiece: A Handbook on Identity for Parents & Children at:
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetHow to Get Your Child to Stop WhiningHere’s how you can get your child to stop whining when they don’t get what they want. Stop the instant, fake tears, the temper tantrum, and the whining in your home, Mama.
💬 Let's keep the conversation going! Share in the comments one thing you will take away from this episode and do today to stop your children from
whining. Tell me how it works in your family. https://speaklifebadges.com/how-to-get-your-child-to-stop-whining/
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWho Might Your Child Grow Up to Be?He stuttered all through school and was laughed at because of it. He hated going to school and still feels anxiety when stepping into one. But look at what
he is doing now with his voice and a microphone.
Only God knows who your children might become when they grow up. Only He knows what they’ll do or achieve.
Your challenge, Mama, is to look for that potential and call it out.
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Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...2023-05-1217 minRenewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetMental Ease – Calm Down Your Thoughts, MamaEver had your mind racing with so many thoughts, yet there is no clarity and no peace in them all?
Are you trying to renew your mind, but there is hurt, pain, offence, fear, worried thoughts all shouting at you, demanding to be heard?
I want to help you have mental ease, peace, calmness, and the assurance that it will all turn out right no matter what you are going through right now.
I want to help you to not be double minded, but rather steady, firmly planted on God’s promises.
...2023-05-1014 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetMama Truths with Rowan AtkinsonRowan Atkinson, author of ENOUGH ALREADY! Real Help for Home School Burnout, Freak Out, and Zone Out and podcast host of Canada Homeschools invited me on her show and I wanted to share those golden mama truths here with you.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetUse the Pregame Huddle to Help Your Child with New SituationsHow can you help your children with new situations? How can you help them to think right, speak right, and respond right in new
situations or challenges? It’s called the pregame huddle.
💬 Let's keep the conversation going! Share in the comments how using the pregame huddle with your child today helps them through a new
situation or challenge. https://speaklifebadges.com/use-the-pregame-huddle-to-help-your-child-with-new-situations/
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RenewedMama Coaching helps you transform your life and parenting one thought at a time.
If you are saying, “I don’t like the Mama I am.” (That’s what I was saying.)
“I can’t stop shouting. I get so frustrated with my kids.
I try so hard to stay patient, but sometimes I lose it. (Me, too!)
If you are stressed, frustrated, tired, overwhelmed, and can’t figure out how to change all on your own like I couldn’t.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetTwo Ways to Make Change Happen Now in Your LifeEver been in a place in your life when you wanted change but it wasn’t happening fast enough? Maybe, right now, you are waiting for an answer, for a door to open. Maybe something feels out of your control. You are doing everything you know to do, all the little things you can do, as you wait for the big thing to
happen.
Perhaps it feels like everything hinges on the one thing you are waiting for. Does it feel like it is so close yet so far away? You’re wondering, “What’s the hold up?” It’s like...2023-04-1417 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetCorrect or Discipline Your Child for These Three Behaviors OnlyDo you feel like you are always correcting your child? Saying, “Stop that. No more hitting. Are you bothering your sister again? Keep it down. Stop running!”
You know that you need to discipline but you want to do it positively, in a way that your child will actually receive and obey without squishing their spirit. And you want to keep calm and in control yourself even though sometimes it’s annoying how many times you need to correct them for the same thing.
In this episode of the Renewed Mama podcast, I’m sharing three behavior...2023-04-1216 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetBuilding a Culture of Honor and Unity in Your HomeWant to build a culture of honor and unity in your home? Then you must kick out any or all of these ways dishonor and disunity are showing up in your home: disrespect, constant criticism and complaining,
trying to change others, neglect, blame, comparing with others, negative or
derogatory name calling, outbursts of anger, unforgiveness and bitterness, pride,
stubbornness, control, refusal to give eye contact, giving a cold shoulder,
demeaning tones, being judgmental and self-righteous. Expecting perfection while not being perfect
yourself, accusing, not letting another person speak, interrupting others, not
listening, rejecting others opinions, shutting down and refusing to...2023-04-0616 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetThe No More Parenting Triggers SolutionWhen your sweet baby won’t stop crying and you don’t know what she wants, she’s not meaning to trigger you.
When your two year old toddler has a temper tantrum and melts down in the Walmart aisle, he’s not meaning to trigger you. He just doesn’t know yet how to express that he’s hungry, tired, and over stimulated.
When we become parents, most of us don’t think about our past and how that can affect how we respond to our children. Before we know it, we are shouting, annoyed, frustrat...2023-03-3117 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetMotherhood is a 24/7 Job – Mama, You Can Love It!Motherhood. It’s a 24 /7 job. Isn’t it?
You may be in the middle of newborn sleepless nights, diaper blowouts, runny noses, two year old temper tantrums, spilt milk, and trying to stay patient and not shout in the mad rush out the door. The child raising days can be long and exhausting. It feels like it will never end.
But Mama, I want to be that other Mama voice inside your earbuds that reminds you that motherhood is the best job you could ever have. You are more valuable that you tell yourself...2023-03-2817 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetHelping Children Take Correction WellHow can we as parents help our children take correction well? With a “Yes, Mom. Thank you for helping me become the best person I can be” instead of an “O, come on Mom” and rolls of the eyes, stomps of the feet, or full out temper tantrums. Why is there a different attitude when they take correction or instruction from their coach or their teacher than from their Mom?
That’s what we are talking about in this episode of the Renewed Mama Podcast – helping our children take correction well. Thanks for joining me.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetMy Child is a Bully. What Should I Do?One mama shared that her eight and a half year old can be downright mean and a bully. When confronted she breaks down, but she consistently manipulates siblings to gang up on other siblings, purposely excludes, and says mean things! She can be so helpful and kind one minute and then she switches out of nowhere.
In this Renewed Mama episode, we are talking about bullying, especially if your child is the bully. What should you do to stop the bullying in your home?
PS. I forgot to mention in this episode that it is...2023-03-1615 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhat Do I Say When My Child is Made Fun Of?“I can’t believe I have to see your ugly face two days in a row.” That was what one boy said to my daughter. He just walked right up to her out of the blue and said those words.
You know what she thought? “Wow, that must have taken a lot of courage to walk right up to me and say that to my face.”
What?! Mama! That is what we are here for! Grooming our children for maturity, to not take offence, to believe the best about another person, and to choose wisely whom they c...2023-03-1422 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetConversation with Tina J. Smith of Tina J. Smith & AssociatesI am so excited to share this conversation with Tina J. Smith, a Christian psychotherapist of Tina J. Smith and Associates Counseling and Psychotherapy on the Renewed Mama Podcast. This is such a golden conversation. I pray that it blesses you as we work together to think right, to speak right, and to respond right as Moms.
💬 Let's keep the conversation going! Share in the comments what helped you from my conversation with Tina. https://speaklifebadges.com/conversation-with-tina-j-smith/
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetHow to Help Your Child Get MotivatedWish your child was self-motivated? Are they lazy or need a lot of encouraging or nagging to get something done? On this episode of the Renewed Mama Podcast, we are talking about how to help your child get motivated.
💬Let's keep the conversation going! Share in the comments what you will do to help your children get motivated. https://speaklifebadges.com/how-to-help-your-child-get-motivated/
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetBreaking Your Child’s Spirit – Conversation with Pastor René McIntyreHave you ever broken your child’s spirit? Their face drops, their shoulders droop. One mom said that her daughter just looked at her blankly, no emotion, nothing. Just sitting there, looking so small and fragile, and trying not to cry.
I have broken my children’s spirits more times than I want to count. We’ve all gotten angry, frustrated, annoyed, felt like our child’s behavior was out of control, and we lost it. Screamed. Shouted. Threatened. Said something we didn’t mean to say. Maybe we did mean to say it because we were so upset.2023-03-0235 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetStop Sibling FightingDo your children fight or argue all the time? How do you stop the sibling fighting?
One Mama said, “I need help. I don’t know how to parent my beautiful children TOGETHER. The fighting is out of control. I grew up as an only child, and I just don’t know how to address it. I want my children to love each other….at least like! I know that everyone has off days, but it seems constant at this point. My children are 11, 8 ½ , 6 year old twins. I’m frustrated and overwhelmed. Please pray for my kiddos to have a ki...2023-02-2821 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetGoodbye, Boring. Hello, Homeschool Fun and Eager LearnersFinding your homeschool days boring? Feels like the same thing each day? You want eager learners, but you’re actually just nagging them to get their schoolwork done.
You’ll get 25 activity and game ideas that will make reading and math fun and new each homeschool day for all of your learners especially when they don’t want to do workbooks or have no desire to read or write stories. A new idea for each day for a whole month! All with little prep time needed.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetPraying for More Patience with the Kids?Are you praying for more patience with the kids?
Do you feel like this Mama who said, “I hope every day not to lose my patience, but I do and I feel guilty about it. I apologize and tell my daughter why it happens. I`ve been praying for more patience, but it has not helped much so far.”
If you try to keep your patience, but find yourself frustrated and shouting instead. If you’ve been praying for patience but the same triggers set you off again and again, push play to this episode of the...2023-02-1416 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetStay Calm When Your Children are Not with Jenn Dean from Families Matter MostDoes your child have big emotions that come out as temper tantrums, meltdowns, embarrassing moments in Walmart, slamming doors, rolling their eyes at you or clamming up?
You might be the Mama, but you have big emotions, too. Pressures. Stresses. Overwhelm. And while you are the adult, you lose it sometimes, too.
How can you stay calm when your children are not? How can you help your children to calm down and self-regulate, too?
Also, how can you encourage your children to obey the first time with a happy, willing heart?
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetCan You Spot a Lie?“Every area of our lives that is not glistening with hope means we are believing a lie somewhere.” That’s what Steve Backlund from Igniting Hope Ministries said. Boy, did that hit home with me.
Let’s do the work together, Mama of spotting these lies and kicking them out! You and I need hope and want glistening hope in our home, for our children, our parenting, our marriage, and our work or business. Let’s get it by spotting any lies we might be believing.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetHelp Your Child Succeed in SchoolHow can you best support your children’s education so that they succeed whether they are in the classroom, homeschool, or doing a little bit of both? How can you help them to grow up owning their own learning, stay teachable, and eager to "figure something out if they don't know it"?
Stephanie Sewell will help us answer these questions in today’s conversation.
Stephanie Sewell is an independent education consultant in Quebec, Canada who helps both students and parents take ownership of their education by choosing an education path that is best...2023-02-0251 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetCan You Work and Homeschool Your Children? – with Special Guest Jen MackinnonCan you work and homeschool your children? How is it possible to work or run a business, homeschool, keep up with the housework and the kids’ activities, and take care of yourself? Can you still keep thinking right, speaking right, and responding right in all the things?
Yes, you can!
Special guest, Jen Mackinnon, understands and shares practical tips for juggling your career, homeschooling your kids, running your home, and keeping your sanity.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetHow to Succeed in a ChallengeYou know what’s great about a challenge and a new project? New opportunities to grow.
New moments where you have to choose: Will I think right in this? Will I speak right instead of complaining? How should I respond right no matter how frustrated I am?
I want to bring you hope and this reminder for 2023.
Whatever you are pursuing. Whatever you are working on. Even in the work, even in the waiting, can you see the finished project? Can you envision it done?
Are you even trying to see it...2023-01-2424 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetCan't Stop the Negativity in Your Home? - Renewed Mama PodcastDo you catch yourself saying, “Whooo! The tone and atmosphere in my home is so negative!” You or your spouse or both of you are negative and now the kids are negative and mean to each other.
How do you remove the negativity from your home? How do you calm down the emotional atmosphere and help everyone to think and speak kinder words to themselves and to each other?
On today’s episode of the Renewed Mama podcast, we’re answering this Mama’s question who wrote:
"The tone and atmosphere of my home is ex...2022-11-0931 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetDon't Believe Everything You ThinkYou think 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts every single day, and 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts as the day before.” This quote is from Dr. Joe Dispenza.
Wow! Can you believe that?
What you thought yesterday could still be holding you back today. Or what you thought yesterday is what’s empowering you and helping you to thrive today. Which one is it for you?
But wait! Do you actually KNOW what you are thinking each day? Do you take inventory of your thoughts or just let your mind run wild?
Even more...2022-10-1324 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetPreventing Homeschool Burnout with Guest Rowan AtkinsonAre you a homeschool mama who worries about what other people think about your homeschool including the in-laws? Is it that everyone has an opinion about how you should do your homeschool? What about socializing your children?
Do you take your children to the grocery store and the clerk asks, “No school today?” What do you say?
Do you need to work to help provide for your family? How do you homeschool and work?
Are you doing too much?
Today’s special guest, Rowan Atkinson, author of ENOUGH ALREAD...2022-09-2930 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetPreventing Homeschool Burnout with Special Guest Rowan AtkinsonAre you a homeschool mama and feeling burned out or overwhelmed? There isn’t time to care for yourself. You are with the kids 24/7, right? Feel like you are failing at this home/mom thing because you can’t do all the things the other homeschool moms do?
Today’s special guest, Rowan Atkinson, author of ENOUGH ALREADY! Real Help for Home School Burnout, Freak Out, and Zone Out shares golden advice about comparison, expectations, going to all of the group activities or not, and mother care.
There is so much goodness in this conversation. Listen...2022-09-2826 min
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetDeep-Seated LiesWhat is a deep-seated lie? It’s a false feeling, a false belief, a false mindset, a false statement that is difficult to change because it has been there for a long time. It is deeply seated in you.
You may not even realize you are believing this lie. It’s just your way of thinking, speaking and responding and feels as though it has always been.
So how do you identify a deep-seated lie, root it out, remove it, and exchange it for God’s truth? Listen to this Renewed Mama Podcast episode to learn...2022-08-3114 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetGoing Fruit to RootGoing fruit to root is the number one thing I did to help me to think right, to speak right, and to respond right. Going fruit to root is what helps me to stay a Renewed Mama.
I know that if you will use these four Fruit to Root steps, it will help you, too.
Resources I referenced in the episode:
Dani Johnson and First Steps to Success https://danijohnson.com/
Dawna De Silva https://dawnadesilva.com/
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetThe Power in a NameEver called your child shy, lazy, rowdy, high energy, or frustrating? What you speak over your child influences them.
There is power in a name. People love to be called by their name. They feel respected, valued, remembered, and important.
You give your children names at birth. You may have pet names for them, but without realizing it you give them other names, too like shy, lazy, rowdy, high energy, and frustrating. Is that what you mean to call them because you declare it about them each time you speak it?
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetMy Story – Kimberly Muhtar – Renewed Mama PodcastWhy is it that I do what I do? Home school, tutor, Speak Life Badges, Austin’s Kids Club and this Renewed Mama Podcast. Listen to my story and find out why!
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetPlease Stop the Temper Tantrums!Please stop the temper tantrums! I think it’s safe to say if you have kids, that you have said this before. How do you handle the temper tantrums and meltdowns when nothing works? The crying, screaming, kicking, hitting, and breath holding has got to stop but how?
Here’s four ways to be proactive so as to minimize the temper tantrums and have more peace in your home.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetIs Math Actually Too Hard?Is math too hard for your kids? Are they bad at math? Trying to help them with their math homework is too difficult. It just ends in tears.
Here's how you can help your child if they struggle in math even if you are not a math person yourself.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetSelf-Motivated Kids? It is Possible!You’ve heard this before, “Why do I have to do this?” Your kids have said it. My kids have said it. And if we’re honest, we have said it too. “Why do I have to do this?”
Before you say to your kids…”Because you have to. Doing your school work is your job right now. It’s your responsibility.” Really… does saying that motivate them to hop up, walk away from their device, and get down to work? No way! Who are we kidding?
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetMotivating Your Child When They Don’t Want to Do ItHow can you motivate your child when they don’t want to do it? Do you feel at your wits end when your kids are not motivated?
Before you call them lazy or do it for them because sometimes that just feels easier, watch this episode because I’ve got four tips for motivating your child when they don’t want to do it.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetHelp! My Child Continually Says No!Alicia asks, “What do I do when my child continually says ‘NO!’ when I’m trying to speak to him?” What she can say to grab his attention and teach him about kindness? I’ve got some tips and scripts in this Renewed Mama Podcast.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetStrengthening You, Mama: What Do You and Your Children Need Today?What do you and your children need today?
I know it, you’re already saying coffee. Am I right when I say that you’ve already had a coffee or two by the time you found this blog post?!
Maybe you’re saying you need a bubble bath, time to yourself, someone else to take the kids for a few hours, a chance to clean the house without it being messed up five minutes later. An in house chef? Am I anywhere close to what you need today?
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetMotivating Your Child When It’s Too HardNeed help motivating your child when it's too hard? Does your child throw up their hands, stomp their feet, push away their workbook, cry, and just give up when it's too hard?
As adults we forget that learning to make the bed can be hard. Learning to read and multiply can be hard. Sharing toys can be hard and learning how to get along can be messy. We’ve been making the bed, reading, multiplying, sharing, and getting along for years, right?
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetThere’s so Much Negativity in the World. How to Speak Life when the Situation is Not GoodEver feel like Anne? “Such a great idea! In a world where we see so much negativity, speaking life to our children and others is oh so important! It’s hard to speak life today. There’s so much negativity in the world. Sometimes I don’t know how to speak life when the truth of situations is not kind or pretty.”
Negativity will always be around you. Even when circumstances in your life or situations in the lives of others are not kind or pretty, you can still speak truth in a loving, respectful way.
Here’s ho...2022-06-3011 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetShould You Call Your Children Bad Girl or Bad Boy?Should you call your children bad girl or bad boy? Maybe you were called a bad girl or a bad boy when you were little. Are they actually bad or do they just make bad choices?
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetHow Tender is Your Child’s Heart to Receive Your Words of Truth?Are you nurturing your child’s heart and mind? If you thought of their heart and mind like soil, is it rocky, thorny, or good soil? You’ll know by their behavior. How do they respond? What are you correcting again and again? Is there willful disobedience, selective hearing, and an attitude of “Come on, Mom. Do I have to?” Do they want to do it their way only instead of being teachable? Are there a lot of sibling arguments and strife in your home?
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetIs God Real? Help Your Children See Real Evidence of God Part 2“Is God real? How do we know He’s real?” Has your child ever asked you that?
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetIs God Real? Help Your Children see Real Evidence of God Part 1“Is God real? How do we know He’s real?” Has your child ever asked you that?
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhat You Need to Know About May 22-28, 2022Stop global healthcare and keep our nation’s sovereignty. Here’s important, time sensitive information you need to know. It’s so important that you must drop what you are doing and act because it doesn’t matter what state, province, or country you live in, this affects us all. Our autonomy, the authority over our own selves, our ability to self-govern may be given away by Resident Biden and Justin Trudeau and handed over to the World Health Organization (W.H.O) May 22-28, 2022.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhat'd You Say, Mama?“What’d you say, Mama?” Our goal is to be a Renewed Mama in the midst of it all with right thinking, right speaking, and right responding. In order to do that, we do our very best to intentionally, regularly check in with what we are thinking and saying. We stay in tune, just keeping our thoughts and words in check, as we go about our day because if we don’t, we can quickly spiral into tiredness, overwhelm, pressure, stress, frustration, guilt, offence, and shame almost at the drop of a hat without even thinking about it…. just as fast as your...2022-04-2819 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetGet a Peaceful Home by Throwing This OutWant more peace in your home? It’s possible, Mama, but before you can invite more peace into your home, you’ve got to throw some things out first. And I’m not talking clutter and stuff that you haven’t used for the past two years although that would be helpful for having more peace in your home. I promise you, you’ll want to throw this out of your home now! So push play and watch. Come on in, peace!
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetAll My Kids Do is ArgueAll my kids do is argue. I can’t take it anymore. I’m tired of dealing with their squabbling and hitting. They constantly nit-pick each other to the point of full out arguments. They just don’t get along. It gets so bad that I just blow up and lose my cool.
Is this happening in your house? Are your kids driving you crazy because they argue with each other all the time? If so, don’t beat yourself up. You’re not a bad parent. This just means that there are two things you need back in your home right...2022-04-0122 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom Mindset8 Things You'd Never Guess about Bedtime ExhaustionIt’s 5-7 pm. You’ve been with the kids all day or you’re getting home from work. Soon your husband will be getting home from work, too.
Time to make dinner. Then you’ve got to run one child to hockey or dance or soccer practice. There’s homework to do. You should read with the kids for 15 minutes. They need baths.
You are tired. Exhausted actually.
The day has been long and everyone is just a little bit tired, irritable, and whiny. Some call it Arsenic Hour or Witching Hour….that 5-7 pm tim...2022-03-2923 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetStop Reminding Your Children Saying "I Told You!" 100 TimesAre you tired of telling your children 100 times to do something before they actually do it? Wish you could stop reminding and nagging them all the time? It's exhausting!
“How many times do I have to tell you to clean your room? Are you done yet? What’s taking you so long?"
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetSELF-CONTROL Helping Your Child Choose ItSELF-CONTROL How can you help your child choose self-control? And how do you teach them what self-control is?
You can explain it this way:
Self-control is self-discipline. It’s the ability to control yourself and your emotions with all of those feelings, wants and desires inside. Self-control is then how you express or show those emotions in your behavior. Self-control is needed in really happy situations and in difficult situations that make you feel hurt, hungry, angry, or lonely.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom Mindset3 More Lies Your Child Might be BelievingWe are chatting about lies, wrong beliefs, and words spoken over your children that need to be (1) acknowledged as lies, (2) need to be broken off, and (3) replaced with truth so that your children can have a new, renewed right way of thinking.
If you don’t address the lies that your children are believing and teach them how to acknowledge it as a lie and the value in asking, “What is the truth about this that I should be believing instead?” your children will continue to say, “This is too hard. I can’t do this. I’m not smart...2022-03-1714 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom Mindset3 Lies Your Child Might be Believing“Math is hard. Why do I have to do this? I just can’t get this.”
“Everyone else is faster than me. I look over at the kid next to me and watch him fill out his paper. And then I look at mine and it’s still empty.”
“I don’t care anymore. Why try? I’m just too far behind.”
I hear this from my tutoring students regularly. I came to realize a long time ago that there was a lot more than just math and reading that they were struggling with. It’s lies. The...2022-03-1521 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom Mindset5 Ways to Support Your Children in Scary TimesThere is so much going on in the world. Do you ever stopped and thought, "How did we get here? I mean it’s crazy out there."
How are you doing in all of this? How are your children doing? How are they feeling? This can be a scary time for our children.
In this episode, we'll talk about how you can support and strengthen your children through this time. We want to raise up kind, wise, brave, children who can discern between what is truth and what are lies.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhat does My Grandma’s Blanket have to do with You?I had a dream two nights ago, and I want to share it with you. My grandma’s blanket that she made for me when I was twelve was in my dream. This dream has meaning for you and me.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetGot a Vision for Your Future?Have you ever said, “Will I ever stop changing diapers?” “When will I finally sleep the whole night without a little one waking me up?” “Will my son ever be able to read well? He’s really struggling.”
Sometimes in our day to day, doing all the things, we get short sighted and forget about the future. Our eyes are on the right here, right now, and that is all we can see. The sun rises. The sun sets. And we just get by.
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Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetTell Me No More LiesDo you tell yourself lies?
No way! Maybe so. Yes. Does it matter?
What you think and what you tell yourself, whether it’s true or not, affects YOU and your future. Lives can change or take completely different paths based on what someone thinks, speaks, acts upon and believes.
Lies will always hold you back and keep you from being the best YOU that you can be.
This video was created for both adults and children to watch.
You’ll learn how to recognize lies that you are telling yoursel...2022-03-0127 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhat are You Saying Again and Again?You can try to cover up a lot of things, but you can’t cover up what comes out of your mouth…what you say. Can you?
The truth is that your mouth tells what is in your heart, and what is in your heart is going to come out of your mouth. Luke 6:45
You might cover up or look good on the outside for a little while, but just as soon as you get frustrated or stressed, it comes out of your mouth because it’s in your heart, meaning it’s been in your thoug...2022-02-2417 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetYour THOUGHTS are a Pretty Big DealYour words are a pretty big deal. Your thoughts and the words you speak have control of your life, whether you like it or not or whether you believe it or not.
What you choose to think again and again…what your mind repeats over and over and what comes out of your mouth will determine your future. What you think and what you say is what you get.
In this episode of the Renewed Mama podcast, we'll talk about your thoughts. And in episode 11, we’ll talk about what you are saying again and again. 2022-02-2316 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetStrife Keeps Showing Up How to be Done with ItStrife Conflict. We all have it. It exists in all relationships. It might be a spat or argument triggered by little things that if not resolved can grow into bigger issues.
Strife is the enemy’s, satan’s subtle tool to set a wedge in your marriage, in your family and in your relationships. It’s his tool to get in and break them, steal your unity, and even rob you or your loved ones of life and prosperity.
Conflict stinks. Strife is not worth it. And today we are talking about how to we can be done wi...2022-02-1522 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetYour Children Can See Right Through You. Transparency Matters.When I was a kid, I was sure that my mom had eyes in the back of her head. She just knew what my sisters and I were up to. There was no hiding anything from her. How did she always know? It boggled me.
Now that I’m a mom to three, I realize that having eyes in the back of my head is a secret mama super power. After all the moments we spend with our children, we get to know them well!
But I've got to let you in on a secret. Our chil...2022-02-1013 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetYour Child Needs to Hear These Two Things OnlyHow can you use encouragement and praise to support your children and to speak in a way that resonates with them and is exactly what they need to hear in the moment?
In this episode, I'll give you exact words or scripts you can say to your child using both praise and encouragement. We'll relate these to the different personalities your children may have.
We'll talk about not giving up, sharing, cleaning up, focus, independence, making right choices, school work challenges, patience, lending a helping hand, working with excellence, and being creative. Grab a paper and a pe...2022-02-0818 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetCountdown to Staying a Renewed MamaDo you like roller coasters? Up, down, turning to the right, then the left. Which way will it turn next? The thrill! The screams. The belly flops!
Roller coasters are for amusement park fun. At home, we don’t want to be roller coaster Mamas. Up. Down. Which way is Mama gonna go next? One minute she’s happy, the next minute she’s shouting. Wait for it. Am I going to get in trouble for spilling my milk?
Mama, we want to be steady, renewed, whole.
“Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into mor...2022-02-0324 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom Mindset3 Better Ways than ShoutingDo you find yourself shouting at your children? You're trying not to yell, but it seems to be the only way they will listen.
Maybe they shout at you and stomp off which only makes you want to shout back. Maybe you are frustrated and overwhelmed and something like spilt milk or a lost shoe just sets you off with the feeling of it’s too much. And you shout.
Shouting at our kids happens, but that doesn’t make it right or an acceptable way for us to approach our parenting. Listen in as I share 3 be...2022-02-0117 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhat's in Your Word Bank?We all have a word bank. A bank of words we use each day when talking to our spouses, our children, to our coworkers, bosses, team members, neighbors, grocery store clerk, bank teller…..to anyone we come in contact with.... even to the dog!
From this word bank comes what we think and what we say throughout the day.
If we are going to be Renewed Mamas, we’ve got to stop right here, right now and check in with the words in our word bank.
So, what words are you thinking and speaki...2022-01-2415 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetCalling Children Up and Not OutEveryday kids get called out. "Be quiet. Sit down. Slow down. What are you doing to your sister? Why can’t you share?"
They get called OUT for what they didn't do right. How they didn’t fall in line, follow directions, and perform.
I want to challenge you, Renewed Mama to instead, call them UP, not Out. Call them up to a higher standard. Call them up to greatness.
Say: "I love you and I see a lot in you. I'm calling you UP. Thank you for listening when it's time to listen. Thanks...2022-01-2411 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetMy Marriage Part 2Who said marriage was easy? I think no one!
It takes effort, communication, working through the misunderstandings, and loving without expecting anything in return. But it's worth it. Your marriage is worth fighting for and doing everything you can to keep it whole and healthy.
In parts 1 of this "My Marriage" video podcast episode 3, Andrew and I share two things that we had to work through in our marriage....unmet expectations and miscommunication.
Don’t forget….. Go to https://speaklifebadges.com/my-marriage/ to print off the FREE "5 Must Hav...2022-01-2419 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetMy Marriage Part 1Who said marriage was easy? I think no one!
It takes effort, communication, working through the misunderstandings, and loving without expecting anything in return. But it's worth it. Your marriage is worth fighting for and doing everything you can to keep it whole and healthy.
In parts 1 of this "My Marriage" video podcast episode 3, Andrew and I share two things that we had to work through in our marriage....unmet expectations and miscommunication.
Don’t forget….. Go to https://speaklifebadges.com/my-marriage/ to print off the FREE "5 Must Hav...2022-01-2415 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetWhat do Renewed Mamas Sound Like?Today we are talking sounds. What do renewed words sound like? The old words compared to the new, right way of thinking and speaking.
We start with renewing the words we think which becomes what we say because we are living the life we sow with our words. What we think and what we speak becomes our reality.
If you catch yourself saying, “There's too much to do,” “I'm overwhelmed,” "There's not enough time to get it all done” or “I’m tired” or “It's chaos in here.” “The kids are out of control,” “The house is a mess,” and “The kids...2022-01-2420 min
Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetIntro to the Renewed Mama PodcastWelcome to the Renewed Mama podcast.
I’ve been on a nine year journey of intentionally renewing my mind and the words I speak. I care about using words well to speak life, hope, encouragement, and belief. I don’t always get it right, but I want to live and to walk in the fruit of words chosen carefully and spoken well.
You see, somehow we’ve been sold this lie that we are to be run down, worn out, carpooling, over committed, too tired to make dinner, got another headache so can’t be intimate kind...2022-01-1304 minRenewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetRenewed Mama Podcast TrailerWelcome to Renewed Mama, a conversational mama to mama podcast that explores what it really means to be a Renewed Mama for yourself, for your strong, handsome husband, and for those sweet children you smother in kisses when they are finally asleep!
You are surrounded by toys, laundry, dirty dishes. There’s toy fights, diaper blowouts, playdough up their noses, and while you are trying to savour these moments because everyone says it goes too fast, so
mehow it can be so easy to get upset and to shout.
If there is one mo...2021-12-1102 min