Are you a parent of a special needs child? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the challenges of advocating for your child's needs? In this episode of the Water Prairie Chronicles podcast, we talk with Latonya Moore, a well-being coach and advocate for positive self-talk. Latonya shares her insights on how to overcome negative self-talk and build the confidence you need to be a strong advocate for your child. She also offers practical tips for managing stress and finding joy in your parenting journey. Whether you're a new or experienced parent, this episode has something for everyone. Latonya's message is one of hope and empowerment. She reminds us that we are not alone and that we have the strength to advocate for our children and create a better future for them.

Show Notes:
Stop letting negative self-talk dictate your parenting journey!

Are you a parent of a special needs child? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the challenges of advocating for your child’s needs? In this episode of the Water Prairie Chronicles podcast, we talk with Latonya Moore, a well-being coach and advocate for positive self-talk.

Latonya shares her insights on how to overcome negative self-talk and build the confidence you need to be a strong advocate for your child. She also offers practical tips for managing stress and finding joy in your parenting journey.

Whether you’re a new or experienced parent, this episode has something for everyone. Latonya’s message is one of hope and empowerment. She reminds us that we are not alone and that we have the strength to advocate for our children and create a better future for them.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to identify and challenge negative self-talk
• How to build your confidence as an advocate
• How to manage stress and find joy in your journey
• How to communicate effectively with your child’s teachers and other professionals
• How to find support from other parents

This episode is for you if:

• You are a parent of a special needs child
• You are looking for ways to improve your self-talk
• You want to be a stronger advocate for your child
• You are feeling stressed or overwhelmed
• You are looking for hope and inspiration

Connect with Latonya:

• 👉Instagram: @joyintheordinarymom

• 👉Facebook: @joyintheordinary

• 💻Website: https://www.joyintheordinary.com

Check out this related episode: EP 94. Finding Calm in the Chaos: Self-Care for Special Needs Parents

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Episode #120: The Power of Positive Self-Talk for Special Needs Parents

Stop letting negative self-talk dictate your parenting journey!

(Recorded June 26, 2024)

Full Transcript of Interview:

Latonya: Every special needs parent needs to hear. You are amazing. You were trusted to give life to a unique and lovable child and you were trusted that you would be the best parent for them. Um, and I believe that 100%.

Tonya: Do you ever feel like the weight of advocating for your child is crushing your spirit? That the negative voices, both inside and out, are just too loud?

What if you could learn to rewrite that inner dialogue and find joy in your journey? Welcome to the Water Prairie Chronicles, a podcast for parents of children with disabilities. I’m your host, Tonya Wollum, and I’m glad you’re here. Today I’m joined by a guest who understands the importance of finding joy amidst the everyday struggles.

Latonya Moore is the founder of Joy in the Ordinary, and she’s also a mom who’s passionate about empowering parents.

Latonya, welcome to Water Prairie.

Thank you. Thank you, Tonya, for having me on.

You have so much good information on journaling, and I think our audience is going to get a lot of value from meeting you and seeing what you’re doing.

So listeners, stay with us. At the end, I’m going to have her share a lot more information about how you can get in touch with what she’s doing. and follow what she’s doing, but I want you to hear what we’re talking about first because I think you’re going to learn a lot about what self-talk is and how it can help you, um, or hurt you depending on, on which way you’re using it.

So Latonya, let’s jump into this.

Okay.

Uh, not everyone has ever heard the term self-talk. It might seem self-explanatory, but just in case, can you give me a basic definition of what that is?

Yeah. Self-talk is the way we speak to ourselves. So it’s the thoughts that we have and related to how we see ourselves, how we feel about ourselves, how we think about ourselves, and those thoughts can be positive and those thoughts can be negative.

I think a lot of us. are probably more familiar with the negative self-talk than positive self-talk. I might be wrong on that. I think of self esteem just as, as women especially, a lot of times. You know, we can, we, we can hear those negativities around us. We may compare ourselves, um, especially young women today.

They’ve grown up with social media, the Pinterest, the Instagram, the Facebook, you know, everything just right in front of them all the time. And so I think that can lead a lot of times and men can face this as well, but a lot of times we can, we can picture ourselves in comparison to that image that we see.

Is that what you’re thinking of as far as when we’re talking about self-talk, like, well, what we’re telling ourselves about ourselves?

Yeah. So it’s like what you’ve said, and it’s also the things we’ve internalized from what other people have said about us throughout life, you know, like think back to your childhood.

Someone may have said, Oh, you didn’t do this really, you know, very well. And you hold on to that thought about that particular thing. So when you’re trying to do it again, as a grownup, Those thoughts still pop up like, well, I don’t know why I’m trying this anyway. I’m not good at it. I’ve never been good at it.

I wasn’t good at it when I was six. I’m not good at it now. So it can be from external visual things, but it can also be from external words. And it can also be from internal words. So say that you tried the thing at six or seven and you remember that you didn’t do, do it very well. And now you’re holding on to it because of how you felt about your performance of something that you did when you were a kid and you were just trying to learn something new, but it’s following you around and it’s telling you that you’re not good enough, good at it.

Or maybe not even worth trying.

I think it’s really important that, that we recognize that, that can, can carry a big weight for our kids. Since, since we’re talking to parents here, a lot of our children may have some challenges when they’re in school. Um, a lot of our parents have kids who have learning disabilities.

And so that stands out for them that, that maybe today their child is struggling with this, but if we can put things in the right place, maybe we can start changing that for them.

Yes. Yep. It’s a reminder of not yet. I mean, I’m not able to do this yet and I can keep trying, right? I don’t have to give up to just because it’s not working out right now.

Oh, I like that. I like that. All right. So parents, first lesson today, let’s help our kids have that mindset. Not yet. But we’re going to work on this and then maybe tomorrow it will be. So let’s, let’s keep going there, but I’m going to switch our conversation because I really want to talk to our listeners because I think a lot of our parents struggle with this.

And, um, and I know from my experience, both of my kids have disabilities when they were young and we were going through diagnosis process at a lot of people saying, you know, well. You don’t, you don’t, you don’t need to worry about having a diagnosis. Just don’t tell anybody and everything, everything’s going to be fine.

And so, you know, so I kind of struggled with, you know, do I share this part of my life with anyone? And I got to the point where I realized that if I don’t share this with anyone, I’m going to explode because you can’t pretend one thing and And it’d be something else. And I think we probably have a lot of parents listening who may be doubting themselves.

You know, do I have what it takes to, to help this child, to ask the right questions, to get to the right doctor, to the right teachers. And, um, and so I think a lot of that negativity can kind of weigh us down as well. Do you have any suggestions for strategies that could help parents that are feeling that type of stress or negativity.

Well, advocating for other people, our children, it does take a lot of effort. It takes a lot of energy. Um, and sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know. And you don’t know which questions to ask. So in that, I want to encourage you to give yourself grace. Um, because None of us know all of the things now, you know, even experts are continuously learning new things to add to their tool, tool kits.

So if they are doing that, then it would also make sense that the parent who’s received a new diagnosis or it’s changed or it’s evolved over time would also need time and space. to figure out some things. And, um, so I do want to, first, I want to encourage you that you don’t have to know everything. And as far as the sharing, I know for myself with my, um, so I have mental health diagnosis.

So for me, it’s easier for me to say, I’m dealing with anxiety. That’s what’s going on with me. Um, because when I’m honest with myself and the people around me are aware that, okay, she is dealing with anxiety, then we can navigate that space a little more easily. Instead of them trying to figure out, like, what’s going, what’s going on with her?

What’s, you know, like, what’s happening? Because this might be, um, outside of how they normally interact with me. When it comes to our children and what they, what they’re going through, you do get to decide if you want to self disclose on their behalf or not. I found that when parents share with me that, you know, my child, is autistic or, um, I have an autistic child, however, they bring it to me.

Um, I appreciate it. I asked them like, what is it that you need for me to do? Like, what is. How can I help support your child? Um, but if they don’t share that with me, right? I’m just going to say, Oh, it’s a quirky little, you know, the child just a little quirky. And, you know, it is what it is. And I mean, and maybe I treat them the same way because maybe there’s coping skills and their tools that they bring with them.

They are able to still manage in the environment that they’re in with me. But if they are having a day like I was having with my anxiety, then I can say, Oh, it’s something a little bit more than what they normally bring. So I find that it’s easier for me. to just be open and honest so that people can meet me where I am.

And I think that could be freeing for the parent also to not feel like you have to hold it all together. Because all of us are unique. I’m not, not to downplay, um, those of us that have diagnosis, but we are all unique. And so we’re all bringing something different to the table. And when we’re open about our differences, it can make it a little bit easier to navigate.

You bring up a good point because There’s something for having a simple name and not have to explain a lot of things. So being able to say, I’m just dealing with some anxiety right now. Most people can understand what that means. If you’re talking with adults, I work in customer service at a part time job.

And I’ll have families come through where they have a child in full tantrum mode because they’re exhausted. They’re hungry. There’s some trigger that’s happening. And as a parent, I see that, but I look at the other customers around them and they don’t see that. They’re seeing, well, this, this kid just needs to be taken out to the parking lot and, and, and having some, some, some discipline because they’re not acting right.

It’s not my place to diagnose. I don’t always know what the situation is, but as you give the example. If a parent could say, you know, we’re, we’re just a little bit overwhelmed right now. We’re anxious right now. Um, my child is autistic. However you want to explain that sometimes that can fill in the gap and take away the judgment that you might be feeling if you can call it something, but it’s not always your place to have to call it something.

I wish we lived in a society where everyone like you would look at them and think, well, they’re just having a bad day right now, you know, or. Or, you know, it’s six o’clock. They need their dinner right now. Their blood sugar’s low. They just, you know, something’s off. But we don’t necessarily as a society look at each other that way.

We look a lot with judgment and we feel that judgment, especially if we’re the parent of a child who is struggling right at this moment. Um, so I can understand the stress. I remember those years of stress, especially when they were young and, um, and feeling all of the looks, even if they weren’t meant that way, I took them that way.

Um, internally and felt anxious myself trying to get out of the situation. There were times where we would leave a shopping cart and just go out to the car and just de stress because I needed it as much as the kids did at that point. But, um, you know, so how. I guess where I’m going with this is, you know, so say, say we’re that parent who’s bringing a child to you and they’re just having an off day, you know, everything’s wrong.

It’s too hot. It’s too cold. The socks are itching our feet, you know, whatever it might be, that’s triggering the uncomfortableness. How do we find that balance of finding, advocating for what our child needs? but also still maintaining a positive outlook of who we are and how our family is being viewed.

As a Black woman with Black children, sometimes, um, that’s a question that often came up. Like, how do we present ourselves in public so people will not judge us? for how we are in public. So, I remember a time we were, um, I was pregnant. My older daughter, she probably was about two, around two, and we were at a restaurant in Indianapolis, and it was a rotating restaurant, and she was just like very busy and bouncy.

And I had been, so what I had internalized is that kids should be quiet and calm and not be disruptive at such a restaurant. And what was freeing to me, it was, um, It was, it was a white guy. I don’t know like if he was American or from another country, but he said, you know, she is acting the way she’s supposed to act.

Let her just be free. And that was very. much encouraging to me. Uh, sometimes as you stated, um, the world, the society we live in, we have these unspoken rules and we internalize the unspoken rules. But after he said that to me, it really shifted the way I looked at parenting. Like, I’m not parenting for society.

I’m not, I don’t want my kids to be out there causing, uh, havoc across the nation or anything like that. But more so, like, I’m not raising them to make everyone else comfortable. Like, I want them to be comfortable. First, because just as I have anxiety, some of the people I birthed also have it too. And so having to be like, okay, this is how, this is how I process it.

This is how she processed it. It doesn’t look the same. It doesn’t, it just doesn’t look the same. And it’s not fair for me to project onto a child. Um, this certain behavior that they don’t have the capacity for, like they just don’t have the capacity for it. So how do I manage that knowing that someone else can look at this and say like, well, she is just letting this girl have a fit or whatever you want to call it.

But it’s, to me, it’s like, I know, I know our story, I know my family. So, their thoughts have no weight or they have no power. So I tell myself, you know, I am tending to my child. Like, this is what she needs. This is Um, and the adults who are not comfortable with it, they’ll be okay. They, you know, at the end of the day, we all have to learn how to cope.

So if a child having a fit is disturbing your peace, you need to learn how to cope with that. It’s too much for us to carry the weight of our children who need us, ourselves, and then the world as a whole on top of it. It’s going to weigh. It’s going to weigh you down. Um, so my, my suggestion and what I would encourage parents to do is really think about what’s happening in front of them with the person that they are connected to and who they actually care about.

Like, what’s happening. And yes, can the behavior like if you’re already worn down Can a child dealing with stress stress you out? Absolutely. It absolutely can. It absolutely can. So it’s important that parents learn how to give themselves great coping tools and be aware of how you’re feeling at all times so that when your child is going through whatever your child is going through, You’re already in this state of being calm so that it’s not going to make you spin out.

And then you have two people having meltdowns.

And I think we all recognize that we’re going to be in situations where we are stressed. It’s, um, but I do want to ask you, how long did it take you to get to the mindset where you could block out the others and focus on what your family needed and what you needed? Because that doesn’t happen overnight.

It does not. It’s like, it’s, to me, it’s a, probably a lifelong process because first it’s like learning how, so taking in, like, if I, if that man, whoever he was at that restaurant. Wouldn’t have said that to me. I probably, it wouldn’t have tickled, you know, tickled my brain like, huh? She can just be free and I can just let her be a kid.

And then the other part of that, witnessing other people do it, um, Like seeing other, like I have one friend, her kids, they, they used to like run up and down the, the restaurant. She did not care. Like, it did not matter. And I was like, that is freedom. Like, that is freedom. And let’s be free. Now, do you want them to disturb other people’s meals?

Maybe not, but what I noticed, the other people didn’t care. They were like, happy that they were happy. It wasn’t as big of a thing that we, you know, that we make it out to be. So, it, like I said, it, and that was after my kids were past the toddler age when I witnessed my friend doing it. So, taking it, taking in these things like, um, by surrounding yourself.

With people who are, who feel free, who are a little more freer and less rigid, that helps. And I, I really do believe, like, it’s, um, it’s kind of like this lifelong thing because if you do not, if you’re not giving yourself permission to be free, because I think it really starts there, like it’s hard to give your kids permission to be free.

If you feel like you have to be rigid within yourself. So I had to, I think that I was able to hear him. a little bit more because I had also started wanting that for myself too, like not to conform and not to perform for other people. Um, and I think we are taught that whether like growing up, we’re taught how to act in the classroom so that you don’t get in trouble, how to be a good child for our parents, so that they.

Don’t have to fuss at us. So some of that stuff, it does take away our freedom whether we realize it or not, because some of the things that we want to do are not necessarily bad things. They’re just things that are curious. Like we’re curious and we are kind of taught to get rid of the curiosity. So first I would encourage you if you feel rigid inside of yourself and you don’t feel like you’re free enough to say no or free enough to ask questions or free enough to try something that you’ve never done before or free enough to splurge on something that may not actually be considered a splurge.

Um, if you don’t feel free enough in yourself to do those things, it can be hard to give someone else that same freedom. Um, and as you build like your ability to let go of what people want from you or think of you or expect from you, it’ll be easier to then say, well, I’m not going to allow that to be placed on my child either.

Another tool that I picked up was realizing that that our kids are separated from us. They are not us. They are like, they’re, I want us, I really want to say they are not 100 percent reflections of us either. Like it’s very easy to, you know, everyone walks around and say my mini me or my whatever little nickname, nickname, give the kids.

Um, and when we do that to them, We’re kind of doing that to ourselves too because now everything they do, if it’s not good, then it’s like, I must have done something for them to be this way, whatever this way is. And that’s not fair to them, and it’s not fair to you. So remembering as how I would speak to myself is that my child is an individual and I give them space to grow into who they are.

And my goal is to teach and guide them, but, as you shared earlier, we all don’t pick up the information at one time, you know, like all of us get it at different stages in life. Like some of us, as people say, this is an old soul, they must’ve been here before. Like there are people like that out in the world.

Right. And then there are people who. are like, I’m just living, I’m just living, I’m just living my best life and I’m so free. And I don’t know what, why do you want me to learn how to do this stuff? And then they get it a little bit later and they’re like, Oh, this is why I needed to learn these things. And we, we all learn at our own, at our own, um, paces.

At our own paces, or in our own timing, um, and because of that, it’s important for us as parents not to, um, not to hold on so tightly to our children’s wins and their, whatever those disappointments may be, like their wins are their wins, right? And their mistakes are their mistakes.

One of the best things that, um, that Steve and I had when the kids were little, our, um, our in laws actually gave us a parenting program that’s, it was, it was at the time is, I don’t even think it’s out anymore, but it was called Growing Kids God’s Way.

And it started when they were infants with their feeding and kind of getting their routine down, but we read ahead on there and it talked about the different stages of parenting. And so my kids are in their early twenties right now, but around those late teen years, it talked about going into the coaching phase of parenting.

You know, we start early where we say this, they, they, they do this. You know, it’s, it’s, it’s almost like that. You know, if, if, if I say jump, your answer is, is how high, you know? So that’s when they’re little, we’re protecting them from dangers. We’re, we’re watching them. We’re keeping them as close as we can so that they can grow and they can learn.

Our goal as parents is for them to be independent adults one day. They can’t all of a sudden just jump out there and be independent if we don’t give them that freedom to have some autonomy and to decide who they are and to make these choices. And that’s a hard stage for parents whenever they have to start letting go a little bit and letting them be not a mini me anymore.

and make those choices. This is a little individual who is, even at two, when they’re saying no to everybody, they’re practicing some authority that they have about themselves. And the goal of that two-year-old is that they’ll be a 25-year-old who’s on their own one day. and those are, those are some of the harder parts I think of parenting.

It’d be nice if we could just kind of put a leash on them and lead them along and they’d be fine. It might be frowned on by society, but, but it would be easier. Right. All right. Well, before we finish here, I want to go into this season. I’ve been having each of my guests give some advice to our listeners by finishing some open ended statements that I give them.

So I have, I think three or four of them for you. I’m gonna start a statement and then I’m gonna have you repeat it and then finish that statement with whatever advice you wanna give. And if you wanna say a lot or a little, it’s, it’s up to you. Whatever feels right is the right answer here. . So the first one I have is the most important thing I’ve learned about self-talk is …

The most important thing I’ve learned about self-talk is that it teaches other people how to talk to me. When I talk to myself well, um, I exude that and it’s a guide to how other people can treat me.

I hadn’t even thought about that when we were talking about it earlier, but you’re right. If we, it’s almost that if you respect yourself, other people will respect you. Well put. Alright, so number two. When you feel discouraged in your advocacy journey, remind yourself …

When you feel discouraged in your advocacy journey, remind yourself that your efforts will pay off. It can feel hard. It can feel daunting depending on, you know, the situation, but the more you speak up for your child, it will pay off and it will teach them how to advocate for themselves. And I can say that confidently because, uh, it brings me joy when I see my daughters advocating for themselves.

I’m the same way. My kids have come so far. Now they go into their college, they go into their professors, they can explain exactly why they need a certain accommodation and how it has worked in the past and they don’t have any trouble with it.

It’s, I’m very, very proud of them of seeing that and they’re not using it as a crutch. This is, they weigh out whether it’s worth saying anything or not, but that came from years of them watching and listening and being part of those conversations when they were younger. All right, next one. For a special needs parent feeling overwhelmed by negativity my advice is …

For a special needs parent feeling overwhelmed by negativity. My advice is to breathe. Breathing is so important. You know, like sometimes we just hold it all in and it’s so hard to let go and so the negativity is just like settled into us instead of allowing it to just like float by but just stopping taking some time to just breathe.

There are so many apps out there so if you don’t know how to breathe with intention you can find an app that will guide you through breathing practices so that you can let go, let go of what’s trying to latch itself on to you.

I’m going to put a link here, listeners, to another episode. So when you finish listening to this, go back and find this one on some breath work that you could, could follow through with as well.

All right. So last one, every special needs parent needs to hear this. ..

Every special needs parent needs to hear you are amazing. You were trusted to give life to a unique and lovable child and you were trusted that you would be the best parent for them. Um, and I believe, I believe that 100%.

I love your answer to all four of those. So, thank you for sharing that with us.

You are very welcome. Thank you for giving me the opportunity, the opportunity to share. Um, I hope that what I’ve shared will encourage people to think about how they’re speaking to themselves and, um, one tip, because I didn’t, I didn’t share a tip like how to get out of the pattern of speaking negatively to yourself.

Um, but one tip I would love to share about how getting out of that pattern is reframing, reframing what you’re saying to yourself. I homeschooled my daughters. I homeschooled them on purpose, with intention, because I saw who they were and what they needed. Um, they do go to college now, and they do advocate, they do request accommodations as needed, and even as homeschoolers, you can take, you can give your kids, uh, tools, um, to support them in the public learning environment.

Um, but my tip, I mentioned reframing. One thought that used to come to my mind all of the time was, Who do you think you are to homeschool your kids? Like, What makes you special that you can homeschool them? Why can’t they just go to school like everyone else? So that, to me, that’s a negative, that was a negative thought and it hindered me and it would get in my way and it was an obstacle and I would stumble.

And over time, I learned how to say, I learned how to answer that question. So when the thought would pop up and I say, I am their parent, I’m their mom, I am trusted to take care of them. I am going to make sure that they learn what they need to learn. I will not teach them every little thing, but they will know how to find the information that they need to find.

And so instead of letting the thought sit there as this reoccurring thought that was weighing me down. I started to answer it like so as a challenge and then it had nowhere, it had nowhere else to go. It couldn’t just keep beating me down because I knew who I, who, who I was and who I am to be there to, to teach my kids.

So if your thoughts are something like that, Challenge yourself to reword it, like, I am, I can homeschool my kids because I can advocate for my child because I can, whatever it is, because, and then something positive and empowering on the end of the because, um, so when that thought pops up, you can You can knock it down right away.

And if you are like, if you are a believer or if you read the Bible, um, I like to use scriptures to also come up with affirmations. So like, uh, Joshua 1:9 is one that I hold on to. So when I’m feeling like, uh, I can say I am strong. I am courageous. God is with me. I didn’t even have to come up with anything.

It was already written down. I just, I just had to say it for myself and just. Believe it. Um, and I just use it anytime negativity tries to like at the dentist, I am safe. They are not hurting me. I am okay. Um, and that kind of keeps you from feeling so tight and Being so mean to yourself. So, and lastly, be gentle, be gentle. You deserve to be held with care.

Alright. Well, I told our listeners to stick with us till the end. So tell us where, where can they find you? How can they work with you or get involved with what you’re doing? Tell us, tell us all, all, all about Latonya and what you’re doing.

All right. Well, you can find me at https://joyintheordinary.com.

I talk a lot about well being, the way we speak to ourselves, being assertive, um, and listening to our own voices, not just what we think should be true, but what we feel within us that is true and that how we really want to live. Um, you can join. The Joy the Ordinary newsletter, https://joyintheordinary.com/newsletter.

And that’s where you’ll find out about my amazing journaling workshops. I love journaling is such a powerful tool. It definitely helps strengthen that voice when we struggle with being assertive. Um, the more honest we are with ourselves, it is so much easier to go out into the world and be honest with other people in our interactions.

And are you on social media or should they go straight to your website to find your links?

Yeah, I’m on social media. Joy in the Ordinary on Facebook, and @joyintheordinarymom on Instagram.

I’ll put all of those links in the show notes so you can, can get in touch with what Latonya’s doing and follow along, follow along with her. Her website’s fantastic. She has a lot of information there. You’ll see, um, some great blog posts there and, um, and I would encourage you to, to follow her and see, see if you can, can join in with her joy in the morning and continue with that too.

Well, Latonya, thank you. This is, this has been a fun conversation. It’s um, like I say so many times, it’s information that I wish I had had when I was much younger and trying to find my parenting path. But I know we have a lot of parents who are listening who are going to benefit from having heard what we talked about today.

So thank you for sharing this with us.

Thanks for having me on, Tonya. I really appreciate it. It was fun. It was fun just to talk and share.

I always love meeting other, other, other moms.

What a great conversation with Latonya Moore. I hope you’re feeling more equipped to manage your self-talk and embrace your parenting journey.

Remember, you are amazing, and you are the perfect parent for your child. If you found this episode helpful, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to Water Prairie. We’re here to provide support, encouragement, and practical advice for parents of children with disabilities. And be sure to join me next time when I’ll be diving into the world of dyslexia.

I’ll be talking with a mother and son duo who have written a delightful children’s book about a taxi who navigates the world with dyslexia. It’s a story of celebrating neurodiversity that you don’t want to miss. Thanks for watching and I’ll see you next time.