191 - Uplift Kids: Guiding Parents on Emotions and Wisdom

Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta

Spirituality, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Society & Culture, Meditation, Secular, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I interview the co-founders of Uplift Kids—Jon, Amanda, and Michelle—to explore how their curriculum helps parents teach emotional awareness and wisdom traditions to kids. We dive into practical tips for guiding kids through big emotions, the importance of mindfulness in parenting, and how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern family life. Whether you’re a parent looking for tools to raise emotionally intelligent kids or curious about integrating values-based lessons at home, this conversation offers valuable insights. Learn more about Uplift kids at upliftkids.org

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the secular Buddhism podcast, a podcast that presents Buddhist
0:08.0	teachings, concepts, and ideas from a secular perspective. You don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist,
0:15.2	you can use what you learn to simply be a better whatever you already are. I am your host
0:20.9	Noah Rocheta and let's jump in to today's topic.
0:25.0	Today's podcast episode is a podcast that has been in the works for over a year now.
0:31.0	It was actually last September that I recorded this interview with John
0:36.4	Michelle and Amanda from Uplift Kids and I had come across their work through
0:42.2	knowing John previously, and he had posted it on Facebook and
0:47.8	were friends on Facebook.
0:48.9	So that's where I first saw it.
0:50.6	And notice that this, it's a curriculum and a lesson plan that follows like a
0:58.0	weekly schedule of different topics. It'll go through ancient wisdom traditions, topics around
1:06.4	emotions, topics around specific values, friendship, all kinds of things that you would want to teach your kids.
1:15.0	So my very first interest was, oh, I want to try that for my family, for my kids.
1:20.0	I've gone through several books that I've found and read about teaching
1:24.8	mindfulness or Buddhism for kids or things like that and I always encounter a
1:30.3	similar issue which is sometimes these concepts are explained in a way that
1:34.7	are just difficult for kids to understand. It's like written more for adults and even
1:41.7	with the adult stuff a lot of times it's written in a way that's just really difficult to understand.
1:47.0	When I came across this curriculum, I first gave it a try, downloaded one of the lesson plans, and I was very pleased with how it was presented and I was sold on the idea. I thought, okay, I'm going to subscribe to this. So I reached out to John and thought, it would be really neat to interview you and talk with you about your podcast, because it's a podcast that they have called Uplift Kids and the
2:15.4	podcast content is supplemental information for parents to be prepared to
2:21.2	present the lesson so they give you the to present the lesson.
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