Archives for 2012

Episode 148 Jordan Page on The Gift of Presence

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An interview of Jordan Page at Fun Cheap or Free and her beautiful article on The Gift of Presence.

Jordan’s gut-wrenching story of her son’s near drowning experience.

What Jordan learned from the experience that moves past good parenting knowledge into pure wisdom.

How presence applies not just to our kids, but other important relationships.

 

 

 

 

SHOW NOTES

Fun Cheap or Free Article on The Gift of Presence – the afore mentioned article.  If you haven’t read it, I highly, highly recommend you do.

Jordan’s main page at Fun Cheap or Free

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Episode 147 Bump in the Night: Should Kids be Allowed in Parent-Beds?

Photo compliments of anna gutermuth at Flickr.

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The infamous question: should we allow our kids to sleep in bed with us?

Does allowing this mess up a kid?

How can we wean a kid out of our bed if that is what we feel is right?  

 

 

 

 

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Episode 146 The Real Family Guys Podcast: Homeschooling

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An interview done by Paul asking Trey about his and his wife’s decision to homeschool.

What is unschooling, how it differs from homeschooling, and why Trey and his wife practice it.

The struggles/victories of homeschooling and the answer to the question: is homeschooling worth it?

 

 

SHOW NOTES

The Affluent Student – Paul’s awesome site.  You gotta check it out.

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Episode 144 My Kids Brilliant, But They Don’t Try: Teaching Motivation for School

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How to motivate our kids that are smart, but just don’t seem to try.

The answer to why parents have such a hard time with these kiddos.

Top 10 ways to motivate your kid for school.

 

 

 

 

SHOW NOTES

10 Ways to Motivate Your Child to Do Better in School – article by Debbie Pincus at EmpoweringParents.com

 

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Episode 143 The Real Family Guys Podcast: Back to School

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Back to school.  What you need and what you need to know.

Today Paul exercises his impressive experience and knowledge of back to school preps. 

We cover some elements of back to school that you haven’t considered. 

 

 

SHOW NOTES

Affluent Student – Pauls awesome site. 

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Episode 139 FPN Classic: Carpe Diem Parenting Remix

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One of FPN’s most downloaded episodes remixed.

A return fire to an article on not carpe-diem parenting.  

How parenting struggles are a lot like stinking at golf.

 

 

 

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