Melanie Fiona, Codie Elaine Oliver, Felicia LaTour and Ashley Chea dish on parenting and being a part of The Mama's Den podcast.
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00:00Now that a second Trump term has begun,
00:04I feel that it's more important than ever
00:09to instill confidence in my children
00:12and their abilities and them as independent thinkers
00:15and to infuse as much joy as possible into our lives.
00:19Yeah, I would say I agree, especially having a teenager.
00:22I've really been trying to teach her
00:24the importance of fact-checking
00:25and where she's getting her resources from
00:28and where she's fact-checking from.
00:31And I think that also just instilling a sense of peace
00:34and joy and teaching my daughters to be very centered
00:37in who they are as people and understanding
00:40that we define that within ourselves,
00:42regardless of what is said outside the home.
00:45And also teaching them compassion and humility
00:49and understanding the importance of differences
00:51and to not lose sight of that.
00:52I just feel like my answer to anything with that name,
00:55it kind of stresses me out, to be honest.
00:57It gives me anxiety, but I try to stay in the joy
01:00as much as possible.
01:03But yeah, I think if I'm being genuinely honest
01:06in this moment, I feel a little anxious.
01:08I feel anxious, but hopeful.
01:09It's like a weird balance, you know?
01:11Yeah.
01:12What about you, Mel?
01:15I think discernment is really, really important right now
01:19for myself and for my children, being Canadian
01:22and really learning about the U.S. politic
01:26presidential system.
01:27It's been an eye-opening, veil-lifting experience.
01:31And I feel like I've seen things I can't unsee,
01:33having a different perspective,
01:34coming from a different country.
01:36So I want my children to know that there are different ways
01:39of doing things and there's different ways
01:41of existing in this world.
01:42And so that's kind of the place that I approach this season
01:47with my children.
01:48Some of the values that I teach my children
01:50in my way of countering the negativity
01:53is through us really just focusing
01:55on the core values of our home, right?
01:58And so a lot of those values are respect.
02:02I think it's a blessing that we live in a home
02:03where their father and I are different religions,
02:06we're different races.
02:07So they're already growing up with that example already
02:09of the fact that you can coexist with people
02:11that have completely different views,
02:13but have the same values.
02:15And so the values of our home are very much the same,
02:17which are centered around family, kindness, love, inclusion.
02:20That doesn't change.
02:21But how we may see the world,
02:22how their father and I express,
02:24I'm super spiritual and I pray a lot.
02:27He's not like that, you know what I mean?
02:29But they see a good person
02:30and they see their father treating people well.
02:32And so I think that that example,
02:34that living example within our home
02:36of really just focusing on the value of someone
02:39versus like the exterior outside,
02:41I'm praying that that translates
02:43into how they treat other people
02:45and just manifest its way into their core values,
02:48if that makes sense.
02:49Yeah.
02:50I feel like I counter it by really putting emphasis
02:55on God is most important.
02:57I think finding that center
03:00so that everything else doesn't overwhelm us,
03:02I feel like is the best way for me to counter.
03:04And I think everything else kind of is an extension
03:06from that, you know?
03:07Yeah.