The Impactful Parenting Podcast helps parents turn their chaos into connection with their children. Through meaningful stories, the podcast provides parenting tips for making family life easier! Why? Because school-aged children bring different challenges to parenting that younger kids don’t! The Impactful Parenting Podcast provides help for raising your adolescent child. So if you’re asking yourself questions like: • ”Is this normal?” • ”Why is my teenager doing this?” • ”How do I get my child to stop?” • ”I am so frustrated. What do I do?” • ”Is anyone else experiencing this? I can’t be the only one.” • ”I am worried. What can I do?” Then YOU HAVE FOUND THE RIGHT PLACE! Hi! I am Kristina Campos. I am the founder of the Impactful Parent and my passion is creating better relationships between parents and their children. I am a parenting coach, a teacher who has taught every grade level from Pre-K through high school, and most importantly, I am a mom of 4 kids! (Yep, those are my kiddos in the podcast photo). The teen years don’t need to be difficult. Teenagers CAN have a special bond with their parents! Listen and discover the tools and techniques you need to create connections, build trust, and have a stress-free household. This is only the beginning! Let’s get started, together! -Kristina Campos Founder of The Impactful Parent
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Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Marijuana And The Adolescent Brain with special guest Laura Stack. Laura tells her personal story of losing her son to marijuana addiction and suicide. Laura also speaks about the dangers of the NEW MARIJUANA of today's cannabis industry and how it affects the adolescent brain. Laura has a powerful message for ALL parents and teens and she hopes to educate the world on the dangers of the new marijuana of today.
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Summary of the podcast:
Marijuana And The Adolescent Brain with special guest Laura Stack.
Laura tells her personal story of losing her son to marijuana addiction and suicide. Laura talks about the decline in her son's health and how his marijuana addiction threw him into a depression and even caused him to become psychotic. Laura goes into detail how her son changed over time and gives the audience warning signs and symptoms of marijuana addiction.
Laura also speaks about the dangers of the NEW MARIJUANA of today's cannabis industry and how it affects the adolescent brain. She gives statistics of adolescent marijuana abuse in the United States and describes in detail how the weed of today is NOT what parents grew up with.
Lastly, Laura gives advice to the parents of teens for prevention and action steps that parents can do to help teenagers who might already be using marijuana.
Laura has a powerful message for ALL parents and teens and she hopes to educate the world on the dangers of the new marijuana of today.
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Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
OCD: Signs and 10 Ways To Help
Does my child have OCD? How will I know and how can I help my child? Kristina Campos, the founder of The Impactful Parent, talks to parents about the signs of OCD, causes of OCD, and gives 10 tips for supporting kids with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Transcript for OCD: Signs and 10 Ways To Help
Welcome Impactful Parents. Today, we will talk about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in your school-aged child.
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Hello, my name is Kristina Campos. I am the founder of the Impactful Parent. Every week I come on and answer one of your questions LIVE. If you have a question for next week, please submit it at theimpactfulparent@gmail.com or by messaging me on social media. All submissions are kept anonymous.
Today's question reads: I think my child has OCD. How can I tell if she does and if so, how can I help my child develop more habits that are causing time and distress?
Thank you for submitting this question! Today we will talk about OCD, what it looks like in our children, and how we can support our kids that have this disorder- and stick around to the end because I am giving you 10 tips for helping your child so you can be a more impactful parent. Let's get started!
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or OCD for short, is a mental health disorder when a person gets caught in a cycle of obsessive and compulsive habits. Your child might exhibit recurrent thoughts, persistent urges, and impulsive behaviors. These behaviors and thoughts might be intrusive and unwanted, plus you might be seeing your child with increased anxiety and distress.
OCD Compulsions are the repetitive behaviors you might see as a parent. This might look like hand washing all the time, touching items in unusual ways, arranging things over and over, repeating words, phrases, or questions over and over, having trouble making choices, and having trouble doing a simple task that they should be able to do like getting dressed, and counting items obsessively, and checking if things are OK repeatedly.
If any of this sounds familiar, your child might have OCD.
Why would children develop Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms? The causes of OCD are actually unknown, but we doctors know that OCD is a way of coping with stress, anxiety, and trauma. Compulsions are behaviors a child will do, trying to feel better. To the child, rituals are comforting and relieve stress. Compulsions are a way to keep bad things from happening and reduces their anxiety or distress. Just keep in mind that these compulsions are not voluntary. The actions and thoughts these kids are having are involuntary. They can't control it. And keep in mind that compulsions, more often than not, are a result of certain obsessions, so let's talk about that now.
OCD Obsessions: are what the child seems to be obsessed about. Parents may see their children obsessed with certain fears/worries. What does this look like in the home? Well, it could look like your child being overly upset about germs, dirt, and feelings of needing things clean. It could look like your child needs to have control of the situation or their environment. Some kids show obsessions with needing order and predictability. Other kids will get extensively worried about someone they love getting sick, hurt, or dying. Obsessions vary per person; therefore, OCD also looks different in every person. This is why it may be difficult to self-diagnose OCD without a medical professional. Overall, no matter what your child's obsession might be, kids with OCD will seem anxious, worried, irritable, easily frustrated, easily saddened, upset when they can't do a ritual, and will often seek constant reassurance from a parent that things are OK. These feelings, obsessions, and compulsions are exhausting for the child and the family.
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Again, the causes for OCD are unknown; however, doctors have narrowed down the probability of why someone might get OCD down to 4 reasons:
- Biology: There could be a problem with the person's brain communicating correct information to other parts of the brain.
- Genetics: OCD runs in families
- Learned Experiences: This means that the person had a painful childhood experience, trauma, abuse, or was bullied, and those experiences created the OCD as a coping tool. The OCD is a way for the child to feel more in control and assured that the traumatic experience won't be repeated.
- And lastly, OCD could be a result of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections.
Either way, statistics show that 1 in every 40 adults and 1 in every 100 children in the United States have OCD.
What can parents do if they think their child has OCD? How can you support an OCD child? Here are 6 suggestions.
- First, be sure not to self-diagnose OCD. Take your child to a medical professional to clarify whether or not you are actually dealing with OCD.
- Become educated about OCD and what this conditional entails. Talk with your doctor about possible medications that could help lower your child's anxiety and if that kind of help is appropriate for your family's situation.
- Get your child into therapy. Cognitive Behavior Therapy is the most popular talk therapy used to treat OCD obsessions and compulsions.
- Teach your child other coping skills, relaxation techniques, and stress management strategies.
- Encourage and help your child get good sleep and live a healthy lifestyle. Diet, sleep patterns, stress management, self-care, and other healthy living strategies can affect how your child perceives the world and how well they can manage their anxiety. These skills are not intuitive. Parents need to lead a healthy living example and teach their children healthy living options.
- Understand that some kids may not let their parents know about their fears and causes of their OCD. Some children will only feel confused or ashamed about their fears. These kids may keep their trauma to themselves. They may also hide their OCD and compulsions. These kids still need their parent's help and support, and it will be even more important for these children to get a therapist to talk to. [caption id="attachment_5726" align="alignleft" width="300"]
Does my child have OCD?[/caption] - Parents can help children with OCD by making their children's lives as predictable as possible. Predictability reduces anxiety and fears of the unknown. The best way parents can create predictability is to provide their children with a regular, consistent, and strong routine.
- Talk to your children about their OCD and don't accommodate everything around their illness. Give them encouragement and reassurance that many kids need to feel safe, but giving in to unreasonable demands may also be a disservice. Talk to a health care professional about where the boundaries for help versus enabling might be for your family.
- Find support groups in your area for OCD. Support groups for parents and their children are available.
- Discover more from the OCD Foundation. You can find out more about OCD and this organization online at https://iocdf.org/. This website can be a great resource for families!
Thank you for watching this video today.
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Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Using The Enneagram for Better Parenting with guest Erin Baute talks about how the enneagram can be a useful tool for personal development as a parent AND help parents identify the needs of their children also. In turn, the enneagram can help parents fill the needs of their children better also.
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Transcript of Using The Enneagram For Better Parenting:
Kristina: Welcome, The Impactful Parent. Today, we will talk about the Enneagram and how it can illuminate our ability to emotionally regulate ourselves and our kids. Hello, my name is Kristina Campos. I'm the founder of The Impactful Parent. Welcome to my Inspire and Learn series, where real parents come on and tell their stories of inspiration and learning because a wise man learns from his mistakes. Still, a wiser man learns from other people's mistakes. Today, we're going to learn from our guest speaker, Erin Baute. Erin is a development coach who uses the Enneagram model for personality to guide her clients to greatness and help them reach their full potential. So I'm really excited to have her on today and learn all about this. Thank you for being here, Erin.
Erin: Thanks for having me.
Kristina: Let’s start off with, What is an Enneagram, and how did you get into this work?
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Erin: That's a really great question. When I started working with the Enneagram, people were confused. The enneagram is a model of personality. It's an archetypal behavioral model. It is like Myers-Briggs or the DISC assessment or Strength Finders. I really fell in love with the Enneagram when I came across it because it went deeper than just categorizing behavior. It helped illuminate motivation and the why behind it, and we can work a lot more with folks and meet them where they are when we understand why, not just what we do. I'm a behaviorist by trade. I've been working in behavior change for about 20 years. And the Enneagram was one tool that found its way in my path, and I just fell in love with it. It helped sort of expedite the shifting process in a way I hadn't seen before.
Kristina Kristina: Tell me more about how you use it personally. How did this grow into you?
Erin: I was introduced to the Enneagram. At that time in my life, I really needed it for me. I started to dig into my own work in therapy and healing for my personal integration.
Kristina: How accessible is this? Is it something I could find online?
Erin: You can literally find it everywhere now, which is a really great thing.
Kristina: How can I use this for parenting?
Erin: I discovered the Enneagram through work, but it wasn't until parenting that I recognized how much I needed it. I was told I couldn't have kids. We were dealt with some fertility issues and decided to explore adoption. We spent two years doing all the deep work around getting approved for adoption. We planned to meet with birth parents when I found out I was 12 weeks pregnant. In the state of Ohio, where we lived at the time, you couldn't be pregnant and adopt. I had a lot of mixed feelings. On top of it, I had a really, really hard pregnancy. I was very, very, very sick and then had a pretty traumatic birthing process. There were a lot of feelings that I had to deal with as a result of that.
My daughter was born with some pretty significant neurological challenges. I wasn't equipped or ready for the challenges ahead of me. I had to deal with my own feelings and emotions to take care of my daughter.
She's almost seven now. I often say she's my greatest teacher. I've learned the most from her because of what she's asked me to be and do.
Kristina: Oh, definitely, I cannot agree with you more. Parenting brings out so much in you that you didn't know you had inside of you. Good and bad. Things you didn't resolve in the past that you didn't realize were a problem anymore. Parenting brings it all up to the surface. We learn so much from parenting our children.
What tools can I use to emotionally regulate then using the Enneagram?
Erin: The Enneagram is a way in which we can identify our patterns, the things that trigger us, what our personality is, we can understand what we're really good at, we can understand our opportunities, and it's a map away into the embodied in terms of how I think how I feel and how I behave.
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Right So typically, folks get really good at one of those areas. We have folks to orient in the world around how people make them feel. We have people who orient the world around what they think cognitively. It's the mind-body-heart approach of the Enneagram for me that aligns so beautifully to things like trauma-informed parenting.
Kristina: It sounds like something that once you can really use it and learn how to implement it. You can also identify it in your children, allowing you to be a better parent to them, too, because now you understand your kids on a different level.
Erin: Yes! The enneagram helps you discover who you are to be seen and validated and understand to get more quickly into the problem-solving work. And so when we can do that, for our kiddos, it is a way in which we can meet them where they are and help them sort of regulating and problem solve more quickly. The biggest barrier for us is our level of awareness. How well do I know myself? How well do I know what triggers me? That's where the Enneagram becomes a really powerful tool.
Kristina: Those are really big questions. It sounds to me like if this is the kind of work that you want to dive into, you also need to be pretty committed to being real and ready to do the work.
Erin: It's all about getting clear about who we are. Being able to hold the parts of us that are beautiful and unique. The Enneagram puts language into habits and patterns that might be harder for us to see because they're so ingrained. The first step for using the enneagram is to be open to seeing your life and your feelings for what they are. You have to be ready to accept change and hard reflection work.
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Kristina: It sounds like something that does not happen overnight. It's a process, something to really dedicate yourself to.
So tell me a little bit more about what you offer and what you can offer the audience.
Erin: My specialty is in behavior change. I'm in cyclical work. I help you know your individual personality type, so we create a pivot strategy that's unique to you. What motivates you versus what motivates me looks really, really different. My tenderness looks different than your tenderness. And so, to build successful strategies, we get to know who you are quick. Then we build a cycle around what looks like for you to make more room for your humanity, to allow our kiddos to grow up as full humans to be fully expressive. I do that through the lens of behavior change, with the work that I do being finite. Once you figure out a strategy, you're done with me, good, right. We can focus on the other tools and resources that we need to meet our kids where they are.
So our work is to take care of the container of ourselves as a parent so that we can be the container to help our kids learn to regulate. My work is to make room to learn how to manage it because that's what I'm doing. I'm learning to manage my big personality. And the hard part is that I'm learning at the same time. I'm teaching, right. And so that's often where you get stuck or frustrating is to be teaching from our gender places.
Kristina: Tell us if somebody resonates with you, how can they get ahold of you?
Erin: You can follow me @livingtheenneagram on Instagram. It's a place where I offer loads and loads of free resources. You can also check out my YouTube channel. Also, I am at www.livingtheenneagram.com
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
How To Have A Happy Divorce. This interview with Ben Heldfond and Nikki Debartolo will have you believe it is possible! Get tips for making divorce as easy on children as possible and creating a relationship with your ex that you can be proud of.
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Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Parenting After The Loss Of A Child
Michele Benyo, a grief specialist, talks about how to support children after they have lost a sibling. FREE PDF with a video is included. To download your free PDF, please download the FREE Impactful Parent APP.
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Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Looking At Discipline Differently with guest Nellie Harden. Nellie and Kristina talk about a new way to look at discipline so you can teach your child boundaries and responsibility.
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Dona Matthews comes onto The Impactful Parent Stage and teaches parents a new way of looking at gifted education. Her idea of the Optimal Match system allows children to rid themselves of the gifted label (which causes stigma and high expectations) and allows children to thrive at their individual talents, at their own pace!
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Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Pelvic Floor Health: Exercises and Benefits
Pelvic Floor: Health, Importance, Exercises with Greta Wyeth.
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Pelvic Floor TRANSCRIPT:
Kristina: Welcome impactful parents. Today we're going to talk about the importance of pelvic floor health. Hello, my name is Kristina Campos. I'm the founder of The Impactful Parent. I help parents of school-aged children turn their chaos into connection with their adolescents. I offer free parent education videos every week, online courses, and coaching. If that wasn't enough, I bring experts in other fields onto The Impactful Parent stage to teach us even more. Today, I have a special guest. Her name is Greta Wyeth. Greta is the founder of Still Point Movement. Greta educates others about movements and how knowing our bodies inspire more healthy patterns. Thank you for being here today, Greta.
What is the pelvic floor?
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Greta: The pelvic floor is a term used to describe a set of tissues, including muscles, ligaments, and fascia. The pelvis may be better described as a pelvic bowl. It includes hip muscles, glutes, the abdomen, and many muscles that we associate with the pelvic floor. The engagement of the muscles within the pelvis is best accomplished when you engage your abdominal muscles and your inner thigh, your co contractors, or the abductors. Finding some pelvic floor strength will take a little bit more than just kegels.
Kristina: Why is the pelvic floor important for us to learn about?
Greta: Pelvic Floor health is really important. The pelvic floor is important for both strength and mobility. The pelvis is the bottom of your abdomen. Your abdomen creates a six-sided box that has fluid inside. When you contract all six sides of the box, you create a sort of six-sided structure under pressure. That structure helps to support your spine, diaphragm, and breath. It also helps to support the movement of your hips and arms. So the pelvic floor is really important for the stability, balance, and strength of the whole body.
Kristina: After baby, women hear a lot about the pelvic floor. Why is that?
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Greta: When you're pregnant, first of all, you have a very large weight sitting on your pelvis for a very long time. That weight can stretch and lengthen the pelvic floor muscles to the point where they're very weak. Then after birth, there's often trauma to the muscles. So finding strength and functional movement of the pelvic floor is really important. Without a healthy pelvic floor, you can develop incontinence, diastasis, or prolapse. Frequently women suffer from many things because their pelvic floor is lengthened and weakened with pregnancy.
Kristina: If pelvic health is so important, what exercises can I do to strengthen it?
Greta: You want to find exercises that engage the deep muscle of your core and the inner thighs. So finding exercises that safely engage all of those muscles will help you move the pelvic floor.
Kristina: So if I could start a movement today that will help me with my pelvic floor and my wellness, what would I do?
Greta: One thing you could do is called pelvic tilts. Lie on your back with your knees bent and try to contract your abdominal muscles without using your glutes. Pull your pelvis towards you. Push your lower back towards the floor. Then release and lengthen your muscles. Remember, we're looking for movement in the pelvic floor. We're not looking to stay contracted all the time. Finding movement of the pelvis is a great way to start.
Kristina: Tell me more about the work you do and how you impact others.
Greta: I've created an online course about the pelvic floor. I did this because, through my practice and work, I have observed that how women are cared for in the postpartum period directly affects their health and their children's health. We as women really need to advocate and express ourselves to our caregivers to find the best help for us. The video that I've created bridges the gap between what women generally know intrinsically about themselves and the care that women receive. As women learn the language of healthcare providers and learn more about their bodies, they are better advocates for themselves in a healthcare setting.
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Kristina: It sounds like you have a great resource for parents. If people hear this and want to get help with their pelvic floor and learn more from you, how would they get ahold of you?
Greta: I have a website. It's called stillpointmovement.com. You can find everything on the website. The course is available for purchase online. There is a lot of knowledge to obtain there, and my hope is that once you learn more about pelvic help, you can become a better advocate for yourself.
Kristina: Thank you for being on today.
And if you would like to become a more impactful parent, check out my website https://theimpactfulparent.com. I have parenting courses, family coaching, 30-day challenges, and many free resources. Until next time, you got this, parents. I am just here to help.
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Thursday Dec 02, 2021
Thursday Dec 02, 2021
Power Struggles: How To Avoid Them With Your Child
Tips for avoiding power struggles with special guest Philip Motts.
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Power Struggles TRANSCRIPT:
Kristina: Welcome, impactful parent. Today we're going to talk about power struggles in our family.
Hello, my name is Kristina Campos. I am the founder of The Impactful Parent. I help parents of school-aged children turn their chaos into connection with their adolescence. I offer free parent education videos every week, online courses, and coaching. If that wasn't enough, I bring experts in on other fields onto The Impactful Parent state to teach you even more.
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Today I have a special guest. His name is Philip Mott. Philip is a homeschooling dad of three kids. He is a monthly contributor to the magazines The First Time Parent and Fatheringtogether.org. I'm very happy to have him here today to talk about power struggles.
Let's get started right away. I want to ask you, Why do you think that power struggles are so prevalent in family life?
Philip: I think it starts with parental perception. Many parents believe that we are the sole responsibility for bringing up and training our kids. There is a fault in this thinking. When our children defy us, we assume that they don't want to do it with this mentality, so we have to make them do it. This puts us in opposition to their desires, and parents try to force the children through things.
Kristina: From my experience, power struggles stem from the parents wanting to control a little too much. This isn’t necessarily the parents' fault. It usually comes from a place of love, where they just don't like to see their child mess up. They don't want to see the child hurt. They don't want to see the child fail. Coupled with years of being an authority figure and having control over their children in their younger years, it is difficult to change as the child gets older. The tween and teen years start to emerge. Now your adolescent starts to gain independence and wants to break free of the reins of control. The power struggles are amplified.
Philip: Yeah, absolutely. It starts early on when the child starts to develop their own ideas. If we don't approach the child’s new ideas by getting on the same page and working together toward a common goal, the power struggles increase.
Kristina: How would you advise a parent to avoid the struggle of power?
Philip: Let me give you an example of what to do…
Disney parks give their employees special training. They tell their people to always find a way to say YES to the customer. This technique encourages cooperation. So, if your child asks to use your computer and you don’t want to tell them no, you would say something like, “Yes, you can use my computer AFTER I am done with it.” Figuring out how to say yes instead of no is a powerful parenting tool. I think that's a really great way to keep those power struggles at bay.
Kristina: I do the same with my own children. I feel like a lot of parents make the mistake of saying no too quickly. And I know many parents who are listening to this right now are like, yes, it's so simple. It's going to be a lot more difficult than you realize because you're out of practice. But don’t give up, parents! With practice, it should become easier, and you’ll avoid a lot of those power struggles that we’re talking about.
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Philip: When you try to say yes to your kids as much as possible, it reminds them that their parents are on their side. We want to help them. We want to be there for them. We aren’t trying to make their life miserable.
Kristina: When you've been in power struggles for a long time, kids forget that you're on their side. They actually get into a routine of being oppositional with you. It becomes a habit and feels natural to them. This isn’t a pattern we want to encourage.
And what if parents can’t change? What are the consequences of keeping the power struggles?
Philip: It's the relationship that we have with our children that is at stake. It's difficult to recover when we start to disrupt the fabric of that relationship and the bond. Parents will start to lose influence in their child’s life. One of the things that are helpful to ask ourselves is, is this helping or hurting the relationship? Am I nagging or criticizing? Am I going to help this relationship, or am I going to hurt the relationship?
Kristina: I think parents underestimate the influence that they have in their child's life. Even as an adolescent, they might be rolling their eyes, but their ears are still open. They may act like they're not listening, but they are. The more that parents can make connections with their kids, the more they can influence their lives.
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I also believe that some power struggles are rooted in the parents’ upbringing. Suppose the parent grew up in an environment where they had power struggles with their own family. In that case, it feels familiar to have power struggles with their own kids. What do you think about that theory?
Philip: There's a lot of truth to that. I also think it's much bigger than that. Some people grew up learning that the parent is an authoritarian. As an authoritarian, there can be some tendencies to treat children like property or a pet.
Kristina: Now, tell me more about what you do and how people could reach out to you if they resonate.
Philip: Twitter is probably the easiest place to get me. There's a community of other homeschooling moms and dads that I interact with there. That's a good place to connect, and that's where I share most of my content. My handle is @philipmotts1
Kristina: If you would like to become a more impactful parent, check out what my website offers. I have parenting courses, family coaching, 30-day challenges, and lots of free resources. But until next time, you got this, parents. I am just here to help.
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Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Toxic Chemicals All Around Us
Toxic Chemicals All Around Us That Affect Your Child's Health. Jenna Hua from Million Marker educated the audience about toxic chemicals all around us that affect fertility and our children's health. Discover what these toxins are and HOW to avoid them! Free PDF with video.
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Toxic Chemicals All Around Us TRANSCRIPT:
Kristina: Welcome. Today, we will talk about the hidden TOXINS all around and how families can live a more toxic-free lifestyle. Hello, my name is Kristina Campos. I am the founder of The Impactful Parent. I help parents of school-aged children turn their chaos into connection with their adolescence. I offer free parent education videos every week, online courses, and coaching. And if that wasn't enough, I bring experts in other fields onto The Impactful Parent stage to teach you even more, and today I have a special guest. Her name is Dr. Jenna Hua. And Jenna is the founder of a company called Million Marker. It's a company that empowers people to detox environmental toxins out of their lives and educates the public on harmful chemicals from plastics and everyday products that affect health. I'm really excited to have Jenna on today. This is an amazing episode you do not want to miss.
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Jenna: Thank you, Kristina.
Kristina: I want to start off with, Where are these toxins that you're talking about?
Jenna: So they're actually everywhere. I don’t want to overwhelm your audience, but they are everywhere. It could be coming from the air you breathe, the food you eat, or the products you use. They're pretty much all around us. There are over 80,000 chemicals in use today, and only 1% of them have sufficient safety data. I think it's important for people to be aware and to avoid these chemicals whenever possible. They are affecting your health. But you can’t avoid what you don’t know, so awareness of these chemicals is step one. These chemicals have no business being in our bodies. They only do harm. They don't do any good.
Kristina: Can you tell me the top harmful chemicals that parents need to know about and where we can find those chemicals?
Jenna: There are several classes of these chemicals. Most have heard about heavy metal, right? We know about arsenic in rice. So you want to make sure that you wash your rice multiple times. This will decrease the arsenic content of the rice.
When you think about heavy metal, you think about mercury, right? Mercury frequently is found in fish. Always check your local fisheries if the mercury level is high. If the mercury is high, try not to consume as much. If you're pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant, it is even more important to limit exposure.
Another class is pesticides. Pesticides occur in fruits and vegetables. So always wash your vegetables. And if you can consume organic, always choose organic over inorganic.
Home cleaning products is another place to pay special attention to. There are three kinds of chemicals in these products that are pretty significant. People probably have heard about BPA. BPA is in plastic and can show up on thermal receipts. If you go to a gas station or supermarket, the receipt’s ink and coating could have BPA. If you touch it, you will get exposed. Instead, we always tell people to not touch the receipt. If you absolutely have to touch it, make sure you wash your hands after. BPA also occurs on the lining of canned foods and canned drinks. So limit the consumption of canned food.
With new BPA laws, manufacturers must label their product BPA-free. But they changed the formula to BPS and BPF. They literally can keep changing the name until Z. It is just too difficult for policymakers to actually keep up with this kind of regulation. We tell people to avoid plastic as much as possible. BPA is also in wraps and food packaging. They can also occur in personal care products.
Then look out for parabens. Parabens are used as preservatives in personal care products. All these chemicals that I talked about are called hormone-disrupting chemicals.
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And then the last class is called benzo fino. You can find this chemical in sunblock. This is also the chemical that kills the coral reef. When you buy your sunblock, make sure you buy a sunblock without oxy benzos or phenol.
Kristina: Wow. This is really eye-opening. One of the questions I have for you is about fruits and vegetables. If I eat a fruit peeling off the skin, is it necessary to buy organic? Some people are on a budget, and buying ALL organic can get expensive.
Jenna: That's a good start. However, pesticides are also sprayed on the seed. You will have chemical contamination within the fruit itself. So, consume as much organic as you can. If you buy strawberries, always go organic. Whenever you buy spinach, always go organic. These two are the most heavily contaminated fruits and veggies.
Kristina: What are some of the health impacts of these chemicals?
Jenna: These chemicals are hormone-disrupting because they mess with your hormones, as I mentioned before. Your hormone system actually controls every part of your body. Sleep is actually controlled by your hormones. Fertility is controlled by your hormones. Your metabolism and your mood are controlled by your hormones.
The earlier you get exposed to these chemicals, then the potential detrimental impact you could have. Some other side effects include decreased sperm count and other male fertility-related issues. There is also research linked to conditions like ADHD and kids' IQ.
Kristina: What can parents do to live a more toxic-free lifestyle knowing this new information?
Jenna: Please don't get too overwhelmed because you can literally take small steps to eliminate your exposures.
First, definitely avoid plastics as much as possible. Since avoiding plastics 100% is nearly impossible, be aware that not all plastics are created equal. They are rated on a scale labeled on the bottom of the bottle. So you if you have to use plastic, do NOT use plastics with the numbers 3,4,6 or 7. The numbers 1,2 and 5 are okay. They're better plastic.
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At Million Marker, we have curated a list of good products on our website. Those are vetted by us that they're toxin-free. Another good tip for cooking food is choosing a beeswax wrap rather than typical plastic wrap and never microwave plastic.
I also like to tell people to cook at home as much as possible. Restaurants might use more plastics, buy heavy metal fish, and you just don’t’ know how things are made. Also, purify your water. Use a filter. Lastly, be a mindful shopper. Don't touch receipts and read product ingredient labels.
Kristina: Tell me what you do at Million Marker.
Jenna: At Million Marker, we provide test kits allowing people to understand their toxic chemical exposures. Then, we offer people actionable feedback and tips for change. People can buy a test kit online.
Kristina: That is fantastic. And how long does it take to get results back?
Jenna: Usually two weeks. Then we give you an actionable report. In your report, you will find your levels, how you compare with our existing users, how you compare with the national average, and exactly what you can do. You will also find a whole section on product audits. We identify problematic ingredients that are in your consumption.
Kristina: Tell us where to find out more from Million Marker and tell us about this free PDF that I heard you're giving the audience?
Jenna: You can find us at www.millionmarker.com
The PDF your audience gets today is pretty long. In the packet, you can find how these chemicals will impact your fertility, impacts pregnancy, and if you're planning to conceive, what are the top chemicals you need to avoid. We also have a few things about optimizing your gut health and how these chemicals could impact your gut bacteria. So, check it out.
Kristina: You're going to be able to find that FREE PDF at https://theimpactfulparent.com/toxicfree
And if you would like to become a more impactful parent, please check out all that my website offers. I have parenting courses, family coaching, 30-day challenges, and lots of free resources for parents of school-aged children. But until next time, you got this parents. I’m just here to help.