Building Your Family Culture - Parenting On Purpose with Nancy and Steven Shapiro

About this episode

The episode discusses how intentionally creating a family culture can help raise resilient and emotionally healthy children.

What if the secret to raising resilient, emotionally healthy kids starts with intentionally creating your family’s culture? In this heartfelt conversation, educators Nancy and Steven Shapiro share how families can move from parenting by default to parenting by design through simple daily practices rooted in shared values and connection. Drawing from nearly a century of combined experience in education, the discussion explores how modeling behaviors like kindness, self-regulation, and empathy helps children build strong identities and meaningful relationships. The episode also dives into the realities of blended families, mental health, and the power of creating a home where children always feel they belong. Steven Shapiro and Nancy Shapiro Rapport are a brother-sister team with a combined 68 years of experience in public education. Their work as educators gave them a front row seat to the youth mental health crisis and the enormous challenges of modern parenting. Steven and Nancy are committed to helping parents raise emotionally healthy kids in close knit, connected families through the creation of intentional family cultures rooted in parents’ deepest-held values. Check out the…

People in this episode

Host: Cara Tyrrell

Guests: Nancy Shapiro, Steven Shapiro

Topics covered

• family culture
• parenting
• emotional health
• resilience
• blended families
• connection

Keywords

• family culture
• parenting by design
• emotional health
• kindness
• self-regulation
• empathy
• blended families
• youth mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Our Family Culture

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