Parenting by Example and Expectations with Marcela Zivkovic

About this episode

Marcela Zivkovic discusses parenting by example and setting clear expectations for families.

Marcela Zivkovic is here with us today to talk about parenting by example and expectations. Marcela is a former teacher, current raciolinguistics researcher and mom of two girls in elementary school. We’re talking about how to set clear intentions for our families and then create the systems that help us meet them so we can have children that thrive, parents that thrive, and families we love being a part of. We get into how we can start by planning what we want to teach our kids, act ou...

People in this episode

Host: Michelle

Guest: Marcela Zivkovic

Topics covered

• parenting
• education
• family systems
• child development
• intentional parenting

Keywords

• parenting
• expectations
• family
• education
• raciolinguistics
• intentions
• children

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