Forced Sharing. Give Me That!
Join us as we discuss:
An article on forced sharing, and how it’s not producing sharers, but turds.
The different arguments used by folks to justify denying kids property rights and forcing them to share.
How to teach sharing, where it sticks.
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Mona Lisa Duck Face
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The nitty gritty on modesty, what it really means, and how we’ve lost the art of teaching modesty, over enforcing it.
How we can differ in what we believe about modesty, even drastically, but how we cannot differ in how we get our kids to adopt those beliefs.
A couple of great articles and a knock-out video on “Pretty.”
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FYI (if you’re a teenage girl) – a poignant letter from one mom to all the girls on her son’s Facebook profiles.
9 Rules My Daughters Taught Me About Modesty
Pretty (Slam Poetry) by Katie Makkai
Mom Jumping by KatB Photography at Flickr
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The viral internet meme of parents jumping for joy in their pictures with kiddo’s going back to school.
An admission that I’ve had the same feelings, but how the reaction parents are giving seem more hurtful than helpful.
How can we prevent this series of events leading up to our desire to kick the kiddos out on the curb.
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Way We See Our Kids
Episode 208 Can’t See Good, Cause You’re Stuck Seeing the Bad
Sibling Fighting:
Episode 127 What To Do with Mean Siblings
Episode 190 Let Em’ Box it Out: How to Teach Siblings to Fight Fairly
Episode 242 What if Siblings Really Could Get Along
Quick Divorce by fortinbras at Flickr
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A great article I found over at SydneySteiner.com on not caring about teaching kids shapes, colors, and other school related stuff.
How we’ve focuses so much on filling our kiddos with knowledge and later with relationship skills.
How this flip-floping of topics, may just be the wrong thing to do to kids.
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Why I Do NOT Care About Teaching My Toddler about Letters, Shapes, and Colors – article mentioned in show.
Richard Sandrak. Son of father that wanted his son to be a body builder.
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A hilarious article over at Cracked.com on the 5 Creepiest Parenting Tactics.
How many parents, even if not as extreme as these examples, tend to try and create who their kids are going to be with no input from our kids.
The concepts of molding our kids and growing them. Which one do you endorse?
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The 5 Creepiest Parenting Tactics Ever Attempted – article referenced by Jeff and Trey
Public Education: Not as Good as You Think It Is
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A look at modern schooling, and how it’s nothing modern.
How our current system of education evolved from Sunday School.
A wonderful article that discusses the failure of our current education system, and a beautiful alternative called self-directed learning.
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School is a Prison and Damaging our Kids – great article discussed in show.
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A media article on a Tennessee judge changing a family newborn son from Messiah to Martin because of the judges religious beliefs.
How giving preschoolers choice increases sharing behavior. Give them the option to not share, and they are more likely to share.
Media discusses new turn of events in Public Schools where The U.S. Department of Education is implementing it’s “Core Curriculum” which is completely voluntary…unless you don’t want funding.
Florida school goes back to spanking their students, at a school board members request and votes.
SHOW NOTES
A Monstrous Story for a Monstrous Curriculum
Elementary School Principles Will Now Be Able to Paddle Spank
There will not be a show today due to the Back to School Flurry. Did you just raise your eyebrows and wonder why Trey said back to school?
I actually work at a University and today was that schools orientation for new Freshman. So it required me to be up early and is a bad combination when paired with saying up super late recording.
Jeff and his family either go to school, or work at one so we are both markedly busy gearing up for a new semester. Please feel free CLICK HERE and search our Real Family Guys Podcast shows and we will see you next week.
Jeff and Trey
Siblings Get Along by Tiffanie.J at Flickr
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What if I told you that your kiddos don’t have to fight all the time?
How to eliminate the majority of sibling rivalry and bickering.
Why is it that siblings fight?
What steps you can incorporate that will significantly trim down fighting amongst siblings.
How to Be a Bad Parent
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A wonderful post over at The Libertarian Homeschooler.
A DIY list of how you can guarantee failure with your kid and be a bad parent!
A different angle on taking your parenting to the next level: what does the opposite (bad parent) look like.
A checklist of how you are doing on your road to taking parenting to dah next level!
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