Abbie: Hello and welcome to the CosmoParenting Podcast brought to you by the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution. In this space, we invite you to see yourself as someone who is curious about and actively participating in creating your own meaning around parenting.
This is our ‘Animate’ episode, where we offer some strategies to integrate into parenting so you can bring to life the things we talk about here on the podcast. Let’s begin.
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Abbie: Today, I am joined for the last time by gifted educator Stephanie Higgs, to offer us a final best practice from a teacher’s perspective. Hi, Stephanie.
Stephanie: Hello, Abbie.
Abbie: So, Stephanie, this is our last month and our last theme and we have been discussing change. What’s the strategy you are offering for us?
Stephanie: Okay, so, perhaps by now you’ve learned that every strategy I share is one of my favorites, but this truly is- I know I say this every month, Abbie- but this truly is one of my favorites! But, I guess, the joke here is that I have carefully curated this list of my top 12 strategies to share with you this year.
The strategy I’m sharing with you today is from a teacher resource called “Nonfiction Notice and Note.” In the teacher world, we use this strategy and it helps our students self-reflect and annotate to foster deeper reading comprehension. But, I find this strategy helps develop reflective practitioners in all aspects of life. This is the ‘Three C Strategy.’ We are going to ask ourselves how our thinking was confirmed, challenged, and changed as a result of our experiences, our conversations, and our continued learning. To be in time is to change. To grow is to change. And I think this is a great way for us to reflect and provide a culminating experience on our year here together.
I invite you to think about how your thinking and daily practices as a parent and caregiver were confirmed, challenged, and changed through the CosmoParenting podcast. Our greatest hope is that you will have numerous responses for all three of those prompts!
One of our biggest goals is to celebrate! We hope we confirmed that you are doing an incredible job in what might be the hardest, most challenging, charge of your lifetime. We hope you were also inspired by stories, strategies, prompts, that we share each month and that perhaps positive changes were evoked as part of this process. And we hope that you have been challenged- whether you changed or stayed the same- and engaged in meaningful reflection and conversations that help you continue to parent intentionally.
Abbie: Yes, Stephanie! That is so beautiful to bring it full circle to be about our time together over the course of this podcast. This is an especially great strategy to add to your toolbox and pull out periodically to check in since we are always evolving and growing. I think it can be really meaningful to use this strategy to take stock of where you have been and where you are going. So, thank you for sharing this last strategy with us. Thank you for all the strategies you've shared with us. And thanks for joining me and being a part of this podcast with me.
Stephanie: Of course! More than anything, I just hope everyone will leave encouraged. This is the most important work that any of you will probably be charged to do in this lifetime. And it's the responsibility of a lifetime. So hoping that more than anything, we provided encouragement as well as maybe a few new perspectives or ideas.
Abbie: Me too. I think that’s a great way to end it. So, thank you everyone for listening in and joining us. You can connect with Stephanie on Instagram @littlemissgifted and you can check out our other CosmoActivities and additional resources at www.cosmoactivities.com. We are so grateful to have been on this journey with you. And we will see you next week for the final episode of the month where we will talk communication on the theme of change.
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