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October 31, 2024 41 mins

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What if the key to unlocking your child's potential lies within your own growth and self-discovery? On this episode of Parental Purpose, I, Donna Janel, invite you to join me on a journey of understanding how we can raise the "now generation" to become leaders in today's ever-changing world. Together, we'll explore the profound influence parents have in shaping their children's pathways to success, whether academically, financially, or socially. Drawing inspiration from the wisdom of Maya Angelou, we'll underscore the necessity of self-improvement as a foundation for effective parenting. Embrace the challenge and responsibility of nurturing your children to confidently navigate the complexities of the world.

As parents, we're tasked with the vital role of being our children's primary educators. We'll discuss the importance of being mindful of external influences and how to ensure our children are equipped with the skills and values necessary to thrive. Reflect on what success looks like in your household and learn how to instill those standards in your children. This episode is a reminder that, through continuous learning and personal growth, we can guide our children to become the leaders they are capable of being. Join me as we celebrate the beauty, responsibility, and nobility of parenting, and take steps towards preparing our children for a promising future.

Parents are the Bows and Children are the Arrows they will land wherever we aim them eventually!

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Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm sorry we out.
Hey everybody, welcome back toParental Purpose I am your host,
donna Janelle where we bringback the responsibility and
nobility and beauty back toparenting right.
We know, as parents, it'schallenging, it's a struggle,
it's a hard knockout.
I'm here for parents, but I'mhere to tell you that it does
get easier.
It's not going to be very easy,but it does get easier as time

(01:16):
goes on.
And our job as parents, ourresponsibility, is making sure
that we're raising up the nowgeneration.
I don't even say the nextgeneration, I say the now
generation, because our kids areso bright and intelligent.
Well, they can make changes now.
So how do we raise our childrento be leaders, as they're
following us right.
So, parents with a purpose, ourgoal is to make sure that we're

(01:37):
able to put the clothes on ourchildren, that we don't send
them outside naked, right.
We don't send them out therefor the world to close our
children.
I don't send them outside naked, right.
We don't send them out therefor the world to close our
children.
I don't know if you guysnoticed, but there's a lot of
clothes going on lately, likethe world is closing up, with so
many different things and somany different thoughts and
their behaviors are changingjust based on what the world
said that our children should be.
Our first responsibility inparenting is to make sure that

(02:00):
our children are growing up tobe successful, right, whatever
success looks like for you andyour household, everybody has
their own standard and levels ofsuccess and things like that.
You know.
Success in education, successin finances, success socially,
whatever it is, but as long aswe're investing in our children
and making sure that they getthose schools and be able to

(02:59):
apply it so that they can docultural differences.
What's going on with the parents?
How are these children raised?
Are the parents active or notactive?
What's going on in parenting?
By right?
They should say that y'all byright.
The first question they shouldsay is what's going on in the
parenting level?
Because they are our children.
They are not the world'schildren, they are not the
government's children, they arenot the school system's children

(03:20):
.
They are our children and it'sour job to make sure that they
have what they need to see right.
In order for them to have whatthey need to see, we have to
have it for ourselves.
We can't get what we don't have.
We can't teach what we don'tknow, so we have to learn some
things ourselves so that weshould be able to teach our
children.
Maya Angelou has a quote, andthis one no-transcript,

(12:55):
no-transcript.

(25:04):
I don't see no better.
I don't see no better.
I don't see no better.

(25:29):
Oh, it's red hot.
You ready to go?
I'm gonna get you no-transcript.

(29:28):
What is the ability toencapsulate the things that are
in the place of the soul?
I would like to know, in thesense of the science.
What is the?
ability to encapsulate thethings that I really love you.
I love you.

(30:03):
I don't know about overtime.
I hated to give up.
Thanks, perfect, thank you Okay.
Yeah, yeah, good job.

(30:41):
All right, y'all, good job, heyy'all, let's go.
What's up?
What's up, Nick?
Thank you.
Why is that?

(31:02):
Why is?
That.
Why is that?

(31:54):
Why is that?
What's up with Nick?
What's up with Nick?
Why is that?
What's up with Nick?

(32:38):
What's?

Speaker 2 (32:42):
up with Nick.
All right, I hate you.
I ain't asking you.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
I ain't asking you.
I ain't asking you, one of onewhat's up with that?
One of one no-transcriptno-transcript.
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