On today's episode of the Intuitive Parents Podcast Dr. Frances Malone was asked about her own parenting battles. And while there were many battles (and many time outs in the bathroom), Frances believes that we can learn from them, our children, and the parenting experience. For this reason Dr. Frances Malone says that our children truly can be some our our wisest mentors.

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Hi, this is Dr. Francis Malone, founder of the intuitive parents

collective. I've been working with children and their families

to provide holistic relationship based medical care throughout my

career. This podcast is for parents interested in

consciously raising naturally Healthy Kids. Here we will dive

into topics that spanned childhood, and parenting as well

as hosting exciting guests. So whenever you find yourself at

the end of your parody rope, tune into the intuitive parents

podcast to get a new ideas about making parenting fun.

I love that you're not only are you a pioneer in the field of

integrative pediatric medicine, but you're also the mother to

three boys. Can you tell me a little bit about some of your

own parenting battles? And and what you have done to overcome

them? Or? Or to live through that?

Oh, goodness. Well, do you want to hear about mom putting

herself in a timeout in the bathroom with three little boys

leaning on the outside of the bathroom door, saying Mommy,

Mommy, mommy and me just say Mommy needs a timeout. And I'm

okay. I'm right here. It's all gonna be all right. So, yes,

I'm a fan of the bathroom timeout. I take parents all the

time.

Yes, absolutely, um, I, my boys have really helped me to see one

of the biggest tenants, I think of my practice, which is that

our children, actually are our wise mentors and our mirrors.

And we get the chance to learn about ourselves, through our

children, through their responses to us through our

responses with them. And that communication that starts in

infancy and continues throughout their lives, is a place that is

completely under recognized in our, I believe our cultural

system, that my first son, Sloan, had a really rocky

infancy. And I now know that that in part was my child, as

well as who his mother was, at that time, and all the ways that

I was stressed out and anxious about how to provide the best

care for my child actually reverberated in my guy. And I've

just learned so much from my children, and I continue to do

that they are now 2019, and almost 17 years old. And every

day they teach me new things about myself, and about how to

respect them and how to support and honor them as well. And

yeah, specific battles. Good Lord, that is might be a very

long road, if you want me to go through some of those. One of

the things that I'm learning still is that there are parts of

different types of parenting theories or approaches that are

useful. And the way I go about it is that there are pieces that

can be gleaned from all the different types of parenting

techniques. But one of the ones that I continue to have to learn

over and over again, and I have practiced it, at periods of life

for my one year old, my two year olds, my three year olds, my

seven year olds, my 12 year old, and now again, my teen boys, is

a little tiny bit of positive parenting in the sense that

remembering that my child, or my partner, or my friends, actually

everyone likes to hear the things that I enjoy or the

things that I like that they either do or that affect me. And

when I stay quiet, or I don't let them know that, and I only

let them know the things that I don't like that that sets up

this place of reinforcement for negative behaviors when really,

they want to hear the things that I enjoy about them or the

things that are helped me to sleep well at night when you

come in and you're quiet in the middle of the night, or all the

different things that one might be telling a teenager are also

things that I told them when they were two and seven is like,

oh, Mommy loves you, when you give me a big hug like that just

makes my body see inside. Those are aspects of positive

parenting. And sometimes that specific type of parenting model

gets this negative rap for creating people who only want to

and can only respond to positivity as a way of life. But

I think that there is a place for that in all of our lives.

And when I get into a place of just focusing on the negative

things that my people in my world bring forward, it also

brings my personal vibration down, it also brings the

communication between myself and my people down. And I'm also not

giving them the insight into what I love about them being

part of my day. So that is a skill that I I talk about to

parents all the time, and is one that I actively practice still.

So it's a learning curve. And as people change and grow, we all

need to reincorporate that kind of thing back into our lives.

Hi, this is Francis. Thank you for tuning into today's episode

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