Back with a fresh take on parenting, education and life with kids

Tara's Take Transcript

[00:00:00] Hello, and welcome to Tara's Take a podcast about parenting education and life. 

It's been a few weeks since I last recorded an episode and I'm excited to be back. Sometimes a reset is required in order to really gain perspective without being clouded by external or internal pressures. I needed to figure out my why's and I wanted a chance to really take in some feedback. And also spend some time thinking about asking questions for clarity. When you were deeply passionate about something, it can be really hard to see things the way you need to see them. It can be helpful. In fact, really important to seek some input and insights from people who are not directly impacted by the decisions that you need to make. It gives a new perspective. Now this doesn't mean that the perspective is wrong or that, sorry, this doesn't mean your perspective is wrong and sometimes you won't take that advice. But more often it will lead to some light bulb moments. 

I said it before. Running a small business is so much like parenting. Sometimes you're so [00:01:00] heavily into the thick of it. You just can't see what you need to see and someone else needs to light up your path. 

Okay. Let's start with the big news. You might've noticed a rather significant name change. There are a number of reasons for this, but perhaps the thing at the top of the list is that not everything I talk about here is just for parents or under what people define as resilience. Not everything I talk about or have experience with falls into a singular category. Some of the things I speak about are really specific to parenting. Others are more about education and still others are more about life with kids and sort of everything in between. I want the flexibility to speak to the fact that sometimes these things are all interwoven. And other times they are distinct and unique. The central theme though, is that they all relate to children. People who spend a lot of time with children. And not just young children. That was one of the biggest pieces of feedback that I [00:02:00] received in my reflection time. The things I talk about, aren't just for parents of littles. Which makes a lot of sense because I'm not the parent of young children anymore. And half of my career was spent with older kids. I spent seven and a half years in early childhood. And the rest was in middle and high. And so I have a lot of range of expertise and I'm deeply committed to always learning and growing. Plus social emotional skills. Aren't just about raising children. There are about how we navigate relationships. Those could be parenting relationships, work, relationships, partner, relationships, and so on. 

So I haven't completely tossed Raising Resilient Children. But it's no longer the thing that's going to shape my brand moving forward. And it's no longer the guide I'm going to use for the podcast in June. I will have been podcasting for one year and moving forward. I want this space to feel welcoming, to a greater audience of people. Whether those people are coaches or parents or educators, grandparents, aunts, [00:03:00] uncles. This was something that was really important to me when I first went online and that was nearly three years ago. And it's something that I really want to circle back on.

So from here on out, when I'm referring to Raising Resilient Children, I'll be talking about my membership community on circle. Where everything that I do virtually can be found. My parenting program, my weekly lives, discussion boards, book resources, and talks, podcast chats, and so much more. It's also still a core component of my one-on-one work. 

Another piece of this is that I'm going to be shifting to doing a lot more in person. But I still want to keep a space for people to come together and seek resources from the comfort of their phones slash homes. Basically my goal for the Raising Resilient Children community is to be your Google. Your parenting resource, the collection of books, you never have time to read and don't even know if they are a good fit. The place you could ask questions from people in the note, as well as people wanting to know more.

I think one of the coolest things about rebranding in this way is that I can talk about a [00:04:00] range of topics that matter to different people, but they collectively matter to me. The truth is I care about a lot of different things that on the outside may not always seem interconnected. But as I put together an episode, the ideas just naturally weave together. This is one of my favorite things about podcasting. The narrative you can weave. I know we are all living in a world of snippets, but I'm a person of a how's and why's and sometimes. I think when we pause long enough to take in some of that, it helps shape our perspective. Just enough to reduce our stress and our willingness to attempt needed change. 

If you've been on my podcasting journey so far, you know, I take research pretty seriously. But I also think there's a really important balance to be struck by adding the value and flavor of experience that not everything written in the book plays out exactly the way it's been written and that not every statistic speaks exactly to every situation. I want to continue to speak to topics. I know caring adults across a broad range of responsibilities will find [00:05:00] valuable. And maybe topics not as widely discussed. I live in Ontario, but I've also lived in the Middle East. I'm raising interracial children with unique personalities and neuro diversities. 

My husband sometimes jokes that I'm not even over my culture shock of moving to Canada. And I think in a lot of ways I never will be. And I don't truthfully want to be, I appreciate our diverse world and I miss things about the culture I grew up in, but I also recognize there are things that didn't jive with me as a person. There's no perfect, but there's so much we can learn from each other.

I think this is what I love most about what I do as a parenting educator and consultant. No two conversations are exactly the same, but there can be some common themes. I'm really looking forward to continuing to have important conversations with different guests, as well as putting on some episodes that are my take on a hot topic, or maybe an even not so hot topic, but equally important one. 

You are welcome to drop your ideas and questions about what you'd like to see in this space on my website at taragratto dot ca forward slash [00:06:00] podcast. 

But until our next conversation, I want you to take care and make sure to spread some kindness, whether that's kindness to yourself, kindness to others. Or kindness to the planet.

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