Milemarker by nsuengineer06 at Flickr.
Join Jeff and I as we discuss:
Milestones: just how important they are in a kid growing up.
How appropriately celebrated milestones can actually reduce the effects of adolescent behaviors. I mean seriously…who doesn’t want that.
Some milestone celebrations that Jeff and Trey use.
RESOURCES
Celebrating Milestones – article referenced.
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Eyeball by llizjones112 at Flickr.
Corrie, my wife, had what is called Interocular Contact Lens surgery yesterday.
Corrie has worn glasses all her life and has been okay with them but she has always wanted the freedom to not have to wear them.
So most of you are probably thinking “then why doesn’t she get some flappin’ contacts?” This would be a legitimate question and the answer is: she’s actually allergic to the material that normal contacts are made out of.
So you might be wondering “seriously, can a person be allergic to contact lenses?” Again, the answer is yes. Contacts have always made Corries eyes red and watery. We recently heard about a surgery that would place a permanent lens on Corries eye that would permanently correct her vision and wean her off of glasses. After we squared away the funds, we pulled the trigger and yesterday they completed her first eye.
I stayed home with beh-behs and got to play the single-dad, homemaker, and nurse to my busted-eye-balled wife. As of today she has 20/20 vision in her right eye and the next surgery is scheduled for a couple of weeks from now. I didn’t finish clean-up and dishes until 1am so I made an executive decision to cancel the show.
But I didn’t want to leave you with nothing so I’m going to give you a list of the names of the top 10 most download shows as of today (4/10/13). Pick one, and click on it and it will take you to the episode for your listening pleasure!
| 2013-03-11 – Episode 202 Spring Break: Parents Gone Wild | |||||
| 2013-02-25 – Episode 198 Coming Clean with the FPN Audience on Spanking | |||||
| 2013-02-18 – Episode 197 Becoming a Good Daddy | |||||
| 2012-12-28 – Episode 25 RFGP Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Coming Along Side our Kids | |||||
| 2012-12-24 – Episode 183 Raising Kids Through Respect | |||||
| 2013-01-21 – Episode 189 Professional Parent versus Mommies and Daddies | |||||
| 2013-01-25 – Episode 28 10 Common Mistakes in Communication | |||||
| 2013-03-04 – Episode 200 Control: Why Modern Parenting Fails | |||||
| 2013-01-02 – Episode 184 The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Christmas Vacation in Review | |||||
| 2013-02-06 – Episode 194 The Parental Temper Tantrum |
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Shame
Join me as we discuss:
The popular pictures of parents shaming their kids who have screwed up.
The use of shaming to force compliance from kids.
The overt shame-skis, as well as subtle shame-eee-dee-dooski.
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Good Boy by Rakka at Flickr.
Join me as we discuss:
Praising kids. Is it good, or more like training a dog?
How there is a thin line between praising a kid to teach and train, and manipulate/trick kids into doing what we want.
How to find that thin line on praising.
SHOW NOTES
The Real Family Guys have suggested that praise is a powerful and wonderful tool to use in parenting. But today we go over an article that suggests that praise is not a good thing. Oooooh! Now watcha gonna say?
Today we discuss how praise can be a wonderful thing, or be the same techniques that we use to train dogs.
RESOURCES
Character Practice Sheet – Jeff’s own creation. This little ditty makes parenting easier since our kids will have better behaviors. This resource helps you plant seeds of self-esteem in your kids.
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Negative Positive by Dan White 2010 at Flickr.
Join me as we discuss:
The natural propensity to be negative in our culture and with our kids.
How, as innocent as this may be, this mentality is tearing our kids apart.
Two powerful techniques to reversing the Negative Nancy’s.
SHOW NOTES
Come on. Lets get seriously honest here. It is way freakin’ easy to rip our kids a new bunghole than it is to teach them, in advance what to do and not to do. Sometimes we only notice what they are screwing up or getting wrong.
How would a job like this go for us? Likely, not very well. Kids are absolutely no different.
Today we discuss how negative parents often are, without even being conscientious about it and how to correct his and get positive like and ion baby!
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Parenting at Its Core
Join me as we discuss:
Parenting at its core. (see what I did there)
Understanding what the purpose of parenting has to be if we want it to be successful.
What is parenting as a service?
SHOW NOTES
We have a tendency to get into parenting with hopes of kiddos that bring us joy and happiness and sometimes that it true. But what if I told you that this is the wrong mentality. That this can breed something in your kid that we ultimately don’t want there.
Today we discuss parenting as a service, and the unfortunate alternative.
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Photo compliments of melgupta at Flickr.
Join me as we discuss:
A fantastic article at Demand Euphoria called Ten More Ways to Confuse a Child
10 tongue-in-cheek things that are really funny, but also leave you going “oh crap…I do that…”.
SHOW NOTES
We typically have reeeeeaaaallly high standards for our kids but turn around a do that exact same thing we just told them not to leaving them completely confused. And when we get confronted on the matter we look at that person with feigned disbelief and say “what?!?!”
Vicki over at Demand EUPHORIA delivers another fantastic article on some of the double-standards we have with our kids. Vicki, a fellow unschooler like Trey, does a great job of bringing out some of those things you can’t help but facepalm on and think “crap, I do that too.”
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RESOURCES
Ten More Ways to Confuse a Child – article at Demand EUPHORIA.
http://demandeuphoria.blogspot.com/2011/07/ten-more-ways-to-confuse-child.html
Gibson Pebble Jar System
Join me as we discuss:
The Gibson Family Pebble Jar System.
How and why it works so well.
How fast should we fill the jars?
How do we be most successful at implementing the pebble jar system?
How do you handle different ages?
SHOW NOTES
I have been talking for a long time here at FPN about the pebble jar system that we use (also called a token economy). At it’s most basic form, token economies are a lot like the tokens kids get at arcades for willing etc. They can then exchange them for a toy that carries value to them whether it be a cheap plastic Chinese-made toy or electronic they pick up at the prize station.
While this may sound over-simplistic or patronizing, it can actually be quite effective. When we just don’t wanna take the flippin’ time to get them a Blizzard at Dairy Queen every time they are nice to their brother, or do what we ask without complaining, token economies come into play.
This allows them to be rewarded and get that ooye gooey feeling when they get something right that builds up to that thing that they are wanting. It helps us financially and teaches kids how to save as well.
Join us today as we discuss the Gibson family pebble jar system and why it helps us reward kids without having to get them some every flippin’ time they do something good!
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Join me as we discuss:
*What in the world is a NO-Nado?
*How to turn NO-Nados into positive events.
*How these NO-Nados can actually create the problems we despise in the “2’s”.
*The way to combat them.
SHOW NOTES
It can be very easy to get caught up in the no-nado syndrome with our kids. “No. Quit it! “Would you just stop!” We wind up spending so much time telling our kids to stop doing something, that we forget to tell them what we want them do do differently!
And seriously, how bad does that suck for a person, and especially a kid! Today we discuss how to combat no-nados and even turn terrible-twos into something that doesn’t make us wish we could smash our head through a wall.
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Photo compliments of melgupta at Flickr.
Join me as we discuss:
A fantastic article at Demand Euphoria called Ten Ways to Confuse a Child
10 tongue-in-cheek things that are really funny, but also leave you going “oh crap…I do that…”.
A very special guest: Jeffs daughter Mary Hannah talks to the audience as well.
SHOW NOTES
We typically have reeeeeaaaallly high standards for our kids but turn around a do that exact same thing we just told them now to. And when we get confronted on the matter we look at that person with feigned disbelief and say “what?!?!”
Vicki over at Demand EUPHORIA delivers a fantastic article on some of the double-standards we have with our kids. Vicki, a fellow unschooler like Trey, does a great job of bringing out some of those things you can’t help but facepalm on and think “crap, I do that too.”
RESOURCES
Ten Ways to Confuse a Child – article at Demand EUPHORIA.
http://demandeuphoria.blogspot.com/2011/05/ten-ways-to-confuse-child.html
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