(Meghan Tries To) Grow The Good Ep. 2

Good morning.

I am here.

It is a Sunday morning, January 14th, 2024, which feels impossible.

It feels impossible that it's 2024.

You are listening to my podcast, Meghan Tries To Grow The Good.

Meghan Tries To is the most important part of that.

The Older I Get, The Less I Seem To Know.

Just take a deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Good.

And through the nose and out through the mouth.

Good.

Just keep breathing.

And as you're breathing, you may hear noises in my house.

I have two dogs.

I live in a city.

Things happen.

I'm not sending this to a fancy recording studio.

If your eyes are closed just gently open them.

My most important parenting technique is finding my breath.

So we can go into it later, but I will tend to either go into a fight response or into a freeze response.

And those are both perfectly normal when faced with challenges.

There's no abnormalities in those, but they are not always useful for parenting.

So, to collect myself, to bring myself back to myself, I breathe.

Um, for today, I kind of wanted to talk about how I made it into parent coaching.

Um, and how it relates to kind of how we understand parenting today, as far as I can understand it, which again, I cannot.

I joke a lot about what a terrible student I was in a self-deprecating way to... I don't know why I do it.

I mean, I do know, but this is not a therapy show.

But I was a really good, curious child.

I should say good, curious student up until around fourth or fifth grade.

um I loved school.

I especially loved reading.

I loved reading.

I read constantly um and I really escaped into those worlds like uh The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and you know Swiftly Tilting Planet and I loved reading and um around about fourth and fifth grade I

was really humiliated in front of a classroom by a teacher, which is not all that abnormal.

But something in me, I was having friendship problems too, something in me changed.

And I actually can remember it changing.

I can remember believing a narrative of you're good at writing and

reading and you're no longer good at math and science.

Right?

So the humiliation occurred in a math class.

There was no evidence of either of that and whatever you even want to say about being good at one subject and not another is specious.

But, and I remember being like, okay, I'm not good at that.

So I'm not really going to try anymore.

Meghan Tries To Grow The Good