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How kids cannot stop wanting your attention, even when you are stressed out.
Some background on the Casa de Gibson stress, and how I totally fumbled the ball.
Why we must be better and what our kids are needing from us.
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The topic of cacophobia…and what the junk it is.
A wonderful blog by Emily Hauser on little girls and body image.
How to teach healthy body image and self image.
Training the World – On Little Girls and Body Image – The great article quoted on the show.
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What I believe is parenting enemy number one.
How the cute techniques offered to counter the power struggle aren’t bad, but suck at addressing the real issues.
Three ways to actually address the fundamental problem or power struggles, rather than the symptoms of power struggles in kids.
Funeral compliments of The Associate Press
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A brief look at the Gibson’s week dealing with death and how we talked to our kids about it.
How death can be explained to a kids without scaring them until they’ve throw up.
Link to a show on dealing with catastrophe and kids.
SHOW NOTES
Lessons from Sandy: Kids and Disasters – the show referenced on dealing with catastrophe’s with kids.
As I was finishing the intro segment to today’s show my mother called me and told me that my grandfather had passed away. He had been diagnosed with bone cancer for quite some time now and his health has been fading.
To the extent you can be prepared for death, we were. Before his health was waning, he gave me almost all of his tobacco pipes and they have become my flagships for pipe-smoking (yes…only in moderation while practicing temperance).
There has been something therapeutic about having them I suppose. Almost like keeping a piece of him with me.
Grandpa’s Pipe
Brain by alles-schlumpf at Flickr
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A follow up from last weeks self-improvement podcast on increasing our kids intelligence, and our own.
A different view on IQ than you’ve heard.
How seeing intelligence as a fixed thing is erroneous.
5 things the Casa de Gibson practice to stregthen intelligence in our family.
SHOW NOTES
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
1984 (Signet Classics)
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Cup of Tea by chumsdock at Flickr.
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A fantastic list of alternatives to punishment that will serve you better than punishments alone.
How the emphasis isn’t on telling your kid what not to do, but on what you want them to do.
SHOW NOTES
22 Alternatives to Punishment – wonderful article over at The Natural Child Project
Andy Andrews
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What the difference between average and extraordinary is, and why it matters in parenting.
Why good parenting is the worst enemy of excellent parenting, not bad parenting.
What do we need to do as parents to change our parenting culture, and how it involves how you are thinking, not just what you are doing.
How his new book The Noticer Returns addresses these issues and my favorite quote Andy uses: “You can’t believe everything you think.”
SHOW NOTES
The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You
The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective
AndyAndrews.com – Andy’s website and blog where he also hosts his own podcast. Check him out at www.andyandrews.com.
I need some help from you PETAKers and audience members. FPN is growing into the age of advertisers (very similar to Jacks at TSP).
I choose not advertise for *anything* that I wouldn’t sell to my grandmother so I want to start reaching out to companies that are honest, solid, and think similarly to us, that would want to support the mission of FPN. People you guys trust, respect, and would want discounts to.
I’m scheduled to talk with the CEO of Diaper Dude this week, a solid guy with a love of family and a brilliant idea to sell diaper bags that let us men…be men (I’ve had mine for 5 years).
Who can you think of? Where would you guys want discounts to? Feel free to post the names of their sites here in the comments section, email me at [email protected], or post of FB and I will do the leg work.
Money by Thomas Hawk at Flickr.
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How we have screwed up our philosophies of money, and then spread that crap to our kids.
The answer to the question: is money the root of all evils?
How do we teach our kids about money and not leave them all messed up.
