Brad Montague | Becoming a Better Grown Up for Your Little Person
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Timestamps02:37 Being a grownup becomes extra real when you have your own little person to help grow up 04:30 Brad asks kids what grownups should do to be better grownups 06:15 What does a grown up look like? 07:30 To really grow up is to show up 09:00 The spectacular and the unspectacular 11:45 How do we maintain the awe and wonder when the shine starts to wear off? 12:55 If we can become better adults we will raise up better kids 15:00 Mum and Dad don’t know it all 15:40 Let’s talk about Kid President 17:00 You’re Beyonce! 18:20 Be who you needed when you were younger. 19:30 Children who do well have had at least 1 stable relationship with a carer or other adult 20:10 Light up when your child walks into a room 23:15 If we do our job well, they’re going to “out love” us all. 23:40 Playfulness, joyfulness and energy 25:10 Deep, dark, heavy play 26:20 Mr Squiggle 26:50 Big, Busy & Boring 28:40 A joyful rebellion 30:10 David Hassellhoff 31:50 How to play in the day to day 33:45 Pop the balloon of seriousness 37:30 Side by side 39:20 Be present, be pleasant 40:20 Pause, breathe, love and do it over and over again. Brad MontagueBrad Montague is creator of the hit web series Kid President, and Kid Correspondent, and author of the New York Times best seller Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome and Becoming Better Grownups. As an illustrator his work is regularly featured in Joanna Gaines's The Magnolia Journal. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and kids.   Becoming Better GrownupsWhen his first book tour ended, Brad Montague missed hearing other people's stories so much that he launched what he dubbed a Listening Tour. First visiting elementary schools and later also nursing homes and retirement communities, he hoped to glean new wisdom as to how he might become a better grownup. Now, in this playful and buoyant book, he shares those insights with rest of us --timeless, often surprising lessons that bypass the head we're always stuck in, and go straight to the heart we sometimes forget. Each of the book's three sections begins with the illustrated story of "The Incredible Floating Girl." Brad weaves this story together with lessons of success, fear, regret, gratitude, love, happiness, and dreams to reveal the true reason we are here: to fly, and to help others fly. Beautifully designed and featuring Montague's own whimsical 4-color illustrations that appeal to the kid in all of us, Becoming Better Grownups shares the purpose and meaning we can all discover merely by listening, and reveals that--in a world that seems increasingly childish--the secret to joy is in fact to become more childlike. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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