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Being a FAN is Fabulous
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FAN perks are FABULOUS. here’s what you get.
- Access to MICHELLE’S PAINTING GROUP on Facebook where you can chat with others, share your work, participate in exclusive live stream events and painting challenges to advance your skills. There’s also bonus behind the scene studio content and previews of upcoming video lessons.
- Paintings for Patreons – Exclusive video tutorials created just for Patreons
- Exclusive Educational Classes – Live with Michelle – Learn the fundamentals of painting with educational sessions covering painting, business, studio tips and so much more!
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You’re gonna really rave about the RIGGER perks. here they are.
- All FAN perks plus.
- Art contests with prizes! Contests are designed to provide exposure of your work in an objective atmosphere with recognition and encouragement.
- High resolution .jpeg digital file of one of Michelle’s original paintings for you to use as wallpaper or print
- 10% discount in Michelle’s Shop on all art supplies, paint kits, original art and classes
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Studious patreons will step back when they read the stupendous STIPPLER perks!
- All FAN and RIGGER perks plus.
- Critiques – send Michelle images of your work in progress, or finished piece, for a professional review or progressive suggestions
- Live Zoom Paint & Sip Event (1 per month) – paint along or just watch, live video interaction with Michelle during painting demonstration. She’ll help you along the way on your own piece!
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PATREON Monthly Teaching License Membership – This level is designed for paint party businesses, art schools or individuals who would like to teach Michelle the Painter tutorial designs. The license is for unlimited, non-exclusive use of all designs for the pledged month. Choose from hundreds of unique fun and beautiful designs for all skill levels. Easy to teach with written step-by-step instructions, reference image, suggested materials list and pre-recorded video! Increase your bottom line, keep your students engaged and advance their skills by teaching Michelle the Painter designs! This level includes access to all benefits in the other tier levels.
- All Stippler benefits plus.
- Teaching Design License – Unlimited, non-exclusive teaching license for all designs during the pledged month
How we hurt our kids
Have you ever thought about how you respond to your kids? How we hurt our kids with our words, without even intending to?
What do you say when they ask you to watch them spin in circles again or revel in awe over yet another Lego creation.
If you are like us you probably respond with a quick, “Honey, that looks nice.” Or “Good sweatheart, but did you clean up the toys I asked you to clean”? While it may feel positive and supportive from our end, what we’re really doing is pacifying the kids with a quick quip.
I once read an article that Emily Esfahni Smith wrote in The Atlantic about relationships, she called it, Masters of Love. In it she explained how we respond to the questions our spouse makes and how those responses shape our spouses attitudes and feelings. The same is true for our kids.
Ways we hurt our kids.
…without meaning to.
According to Emily, there are four different ways that people respond to questions, I’m loosely paraphrasing from her here, to make it more directly applicable to moms with kids.
When my kids come to me to show me a new “trick” they learned, “Mom, watch this”. I have a choice to make.
I can respond in a passive destructive manner by ignoring or disregard the kids…
Or, I could respond in a passive constructive way, recognizing their good news, but in a half-hearted, not fully engaged way. A typical passive constructive response is saying Good Job, kiddo as I am reaching another level on Candy Crush (we’ve all been there)!
In the third kind of response, active destructive, in this response we lessen or take away from the good news or accomplishments that our kids want to tell us about: You made the team, well that is going to be really expensive?” or “If only you could put as much effort into your school work as you do your sports .
These three options are of course, the ones we want to be careful not to use when interacting with our kids. So what is that fourth choice? This is something simple to keep in mind so we can actively work on building our kids up.
How to talk and listen to kids
Our kids desperately need us to engage with them, to stop what we are doing and actively listen. They need us to be their cheerleaders when the world is against them.
When you find yourself distracted or frustrated with your child when they are trying to initiate a “talk” with you, here are just a couple things you can do:
Turn away from your distractions and touch your child. Touching during the conversation will help bring you “in” rather than out and show both your child and you that this conversation is the most important thing in that moment.
Another idea is to get on your kids level and look them in the eye. So often we tower over our kids and look down on them. Getting eye-to-eye shows that we respect them and truly care about their point of view.
Lastly, don’t clarify your praise. Remove the word “but” from your vocabulary. There are many appropriate times for correction, but work hard to celebrate their successes without bringing up their shortcomings.
It’s interesting that so much work is being done to help us understand relationships with other adults, but we often don’t take the time to apply it to the relationship that we deal with most often, the parent/child relationship. Thinking about how we hurt our kids unintentionally can do a lot to improve our relationship with them.
Which of these responses do you have most often? How are you going to work towards responding to your kids in a more constructive way?
