117: Why Parenting Feels So Hard with Leslie Leyland Fields

October 13, 2020

If there’s anything that’s tested our resilience as parents, it’s COVID. Schooling at home or in person, masks/no masks, bus/no bus, having others over or not; the choices seem endless and the stakes seem really high. In the midst of all of these difficult decisions, parenting sometimes feels very weighty. In Episode 117, Daniel and Christina interview Leslie Leyland Fields about what we can do when parenting feels so hard.

In This Episode, You Will Hear About:

Should parenting feel this hard? Is there a parenting hack to make things easier?
Myths about parenting that many of us believe and the truth behind them
How you can tell the difference between the myths you believe about parenting and the truth
The importance of laughter and fun, especially during a pandemic

Resources Mentioned During the Episode:

Listen to our previous mini episode with Leslie, Finding Beauty In The Mundane Through Journaling
Pick up a copy of Leslie’s book, Parenting Is Your Highest Calling: And Eight Other Myths That Trap Us In Worry And Guilt
To find out more about Leslie, check out her website
Pick up a copy of Leslie’s copy of her newest book: Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing, and Living The Truth Of Your Life
What Your Child Really Needs From You
7 Keys To Resiliency For The Exhausted Parent

Quotes and Tweets:

Don’t let schoolwork be the be all and end all of your days. Remember the bigger goal here is to help your family come out of this pandemic loving each other and loving God. @lesliefields
There needs to be a freedom to embrace routine when it is needed and a freedom to break out of the routine when it is needed. @lesliefields
The notion that you can define your success as parents by how Godly your children are or how your children turn out is false. @lesliefields
Let’s re-define” successful parenting” to mean being faithful parents. @lesliefields
I don’t produce Godly children; God does. It’s not so much about what we do. It’s more about who we are. Live a God-seeking life before your kids. @lesliefields
When we find our joy, our fulfillment, and our needs met by God, we aren’t going to require those things from our kids. @lesliefields

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Meet Leslie Leyland Fields:

Leslie Leyland Fields is an award-winning author of twelve books, an international speaker, a popular radio guest, the founder of the Harvester Island Wilderness Workshop and a commercial fisherwoman for four decades, working with her husband and six children in a salmon-fishing operation on a remote island in Alaska. Her newest book, Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing and Living the Truth of Your Life presents the fruit of her 30+ years of writing, editing and teaching story-making around the world.