The Life Skills Your Kids Need Before Launch with Amy Carney

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As parents, we can get so caught up in school/grades, sports, and so on, that we forget to teach our kids the basics. The life skills they need before launching into the world!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we talk with Amy Carney, author of</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/3pfBiNd"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parent on Purpose</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3pfZCyB"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">100 Questions for Mom Journal.</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">She creates content and products to help parents raise their children with more joy and purpose. She has 19-year-old triplet sons (launched to 3 different colleges/states), an 18-year-old daughter is a senior (Yep- had 4 kids in 18 months), and adopted their youngest out of the foster care system in 2016. In addition to that, she’s fostering another 9-year-old son now to adopt this summer!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amy tells us all about her "A-ha" moment when it became very apparent that their family needed to stop, rewind, and focus on life skills more with their kids and how that involved a cross-country trek in an RV!  We discuss what life skills are the most important for kids to learn before they leave the house (and cursive is not on that list), as well as what are some tips on how parents can be more intentional every day in their parenting.</span></p> <p> </p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resources We Shared:</span></h2> <p><a href="https://www.noguiltmom.com/nsbs-april-2021">Not So Bummer Summer</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://amzn.to/3pfBiNd"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Parent on Purpose: A Courageous Approach to Raising Children in a Complicated World</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://amycarney.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Parent on Purpose</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://amzn.to/3iewXZ9"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Addic