Fortress of Solitude by Micah Taylor at Flickr
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Are sleepovers bad for your kids. Not necessarily, but that doesn’t mean we get to be stupid.
Popular article circulating Facebook about Dr. Dobson’s rail against sleepovers.
SHOW NOTES
Why My Family Doesn’t Do Sleepovers
Communication by Cesar Garza at Flickr
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How to get your kids talking with you when it seems so tough.
How to encourage communication without shutting kids down or getting automaton answers.
Tips for getting kids to comply with us through communication.
SHOW NOTES
Tips for Talking to Our Children
Scientific Studies Explain Best
Ways to Talk to Children
25 Ways to Talk So Children Will Listen
Humble Pie n Mash by athriftymrs.com at Flickr
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One of the hardest parts of parenting for you to talk about.
How humbleness is necessary in parenting.
The value of looking at your weaknesses objectively, and making changes.
How our kids need to be aware of these weaknesses to normalize their own.
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The winner of the PETAK-free contest.
What does Trey do when he gets home and kids want to play.
Foster kiddo that wrenched our hearts has been removed from home.
Forgetting kids in cars on hot days.
Article on what causes crisis in parenting.
The two homosexual dads that adopted a baby.
SHOW NOTES
Orphan Famous for Love me Forever Plea at Church Removed From New Home
The Number One Way to Not Forget Your Child in the Car
Modern Day Parenting in Crisis
The Photos of This Gay Couple Holding Their Baby
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Child Labor – Welding in a Garage by uncultured at Flickr
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Excellent boundaries including kids paying for their own stuff, letting them fail, and minding their manners but without the anger and frustration.
When kids should work for free at home, and when they should not.
Why most parents fail at these boundaries, even though they are excellent!
SHOW NOTES
12 Ways to Be the Meanest Mom in the World
Evie and Mom by Kevin Conor Keller at Flickr
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An incredible article on supportiveness in parents affecting the size of the brain.
How a nurturing and supportive parenting style can actually effect our kiddos brain functions and protect their little neurons.
How the brain has “plasticity” and can be reshaped to help kids be successful.
SHOW NOTES
How Supportive Parenting Protects the Brain
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Toddler taped to bed in the last place that I expected it to happen. Why you need to know your school even if it seems “safe.”
Long hair kiddo pic without shirt mistaken for girl and called child pornography.
Teen dies from dehydration and Redbull consumption. The lesson we have been learning that compares to this situation.
What do you do if your kiddo is just…different.
SHOW NOTES
Toddler Taped to Bed at Daycare
My Son’s Long, Beautiful Curly Hair is Really None of Your Business
Dehydrated Arizona Teen Dies During Mexico Vacation
Relfecting by Henti Smith at Flickr
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How the expectations of modern fathers is impressively low…but how many are content with it.
How what many call “competent dad’s” is really mediocre fathering.
A challenge from Jeff and Trey to take an honest evaluation of yourself as a father and determine where can you “sharpen” yourself.
SHOW NOTES
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When is the appropriate time for us to discuss religion and politics with our kids?
The keys to allowing kids full autonomy in their choices, without riding the coat tails of us as parents.
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My thoughts on Public Education as a homeschool parent, and how it’s probably not what you think.
What the ideal educational system would look like and “no! I would not reform the current system. I would start with a new one.”
A message to teachers and a challenge to be what your students really need you to be.
SHOW NOTES
Prussian Education System Wiki – this is the Wiki link I discussed in the show on our current education system and its model.
