#61: Real life parenting for sanity and social change

with Hannah Olavarria & Kelty Green

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In this episode we discuss…

  • hannah and kelty’s backgrounds and work they do with parents

  • RIE parenting — its history, basic principles, and how it informs hannah & kelty’s parenting

  • connections between body positivity and the rie philosophy

  • similarities and connections to the Ellyn satter approach to feeding and eating

  • the parenting philosophy of Upbringing and their foundation in respect

  • why body-positive parenting is integrative and involves the emotional lives of children beyond body image and food

  • a body-positive parenting question from hannah and kelty about supporting children with eczema, allergies, and diabetes in navigating their relationship with their bodies

  • starting with the parents and identifying our own feelings, judgments, and challenges with compassion

  • why “positivity” isn’t always the goal — the value of tolerating or feeling neutrally about one’s body

  • when a parent’s role is to fix vs. validate

  • the balance of attending to physical health and emotional health

  • the parenting superpower of “circling back”

  • hannah and kelty’s answers to the million dollar question

Zoë talks through a real life body-positive parenting dilemma with Hannah and Kelty — twins, mothers, and co-founders of the Upbringing parenting resource. They dig into parenting for “sanity and social change” and how to support kids who have chronic illnesses or conditions that may complicate their relationship with their bodies.

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Hannah Olavarria & Kelty Green are twins, mothers and co-hosts of the parenting podcast Upbringing. Certified coaches in Simplicity Parenting, Positive Discipline and trained in the respectful parenting approach, RIE, Hannah & Kelty empower parents to grow up alongside their kids for sanity and social change, elevating their discipline one conversation at a time. 
They are co-parenting in captivity on a farm outside Portland, OR that they share with their partners and kids, ages 3, 4, 5 and 6. Learn more about their podcast, Siblings Guide and RESIST Approach on their website and catch their live Parenting In Captivity Q&As weekly on Instagram. 

Connect with Hannah & Kelty on their website and Instagram.

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