Episode 182 Steve Harris on Kiddo Preps

Steven Harris

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Kids and kiddo preps.

Including kids in getting prepared for major disasters like hurricane Sandy.

Getting kids involved with activities NOW that will make them more comfortable if the power goes out.

SHOW NOTES

In the advent of hurricane Sandy over 6 million were left without power. I don’t think most recognize the ramifications of no power or the psychological impact it can have.

Want to know what I’m talking about, go and flip the master switch on your breaker box and go an entire day without power. See what things you notice.

So the question arises, can kids successfully survive a major catastrophe? Could they handle a fire blowing through and evacuating your home, or a storm knocking out the power grid for 4-5 days to a week. The answer: absolutely yes.

Steve Harris, CEO of Knowledge Publications, give us fantastic ideas on how to help kids actually feel comfortable during hard times. Many, when it comes to disasters, wait until post-facto to start working on being ready in both the physical sense, and with their kids. Steve teaches us how we can start teaching our kids easy and inexpensive skills to build resilient kids that can handle major catastrophes.

Steve’s Websites:

http://www.Solar1234.com
http://www.Battery1234.com
http://www.BeforeTheStormHits.com
http://www.StevenHarris.net

http://www.KnowledgePublications.com
http://www.iMakeMyGas.com

Steve’s Facebook Page

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Episode 181 Helping Kids Cope with Tragedy

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Today we discuss the tragedy of Sandy Hook Elementary

How to talk with your kids about these seemingly insurmountable traumas.

How to find your kids coping skills and build them up.

SHOW NOTES

December 14th 2012 will be a day of infamy. A day where mommas and daddy’s sent of their little bits to school with the full intention of seeing them again soon.

But many of them did not see their kids Friday afternoon.

As I tried to process this all I felt myself numbing out. I wasn’t connecting to the issue. But I pulled up the list of kiddos (all my daughters age) that had died and saw other kids with my kids names. One boy looked like my son. And then this tragedy all became clear.

This would be like sending my daughter off to school and never seeing her again. How I would miss her smile, her biological curiosity, and her love for the show Weird, True, and Freaky. While I pretended, the weight of the issue hit me. Many are currently dealing with this on a real level.

But with all this said, what do you do if this is a reality for you and is there a lesson here for smaller trauma’s. Most certainly. Today we will cover the BASIC Ph model for coping and help you learn what your kids coping skill is.

How Children Cope with Trauma – NASP website mentioned.

Dr. Jennifer Shewmakers Site

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Episode 23 RFGP Christmas Traditions: How Jeff and Trey are Against the Grain Christmas-ers

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How your family absolutely NEEDS its own traditions.

Christmas traditions in the Emery and Gibson household. How they might not be what you would think.

Family rituals and traditions that are not necessarily linked to holidays and special events.

How to create your family traditions, even as a blended family.

SHOW NOTES

Family traditions are often handed down from one generation to the next and can bring great joy to a family.

But lets be honest, traditions can also create a lot of crap as well.

Today Jeff and I discuss why traditions are vital to a family, but how old traditions that have very little meaning for your kiddo might be having the reverse effect.

We also discuss some of our personal traditions, and even some of our against-the-grain beliefs about Christmas. We also cover how to create traditions if you do not have them or if you are a new blended family.

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Episode 180 Positive Parenting: It’s Not Just About Saying Good Job

Mr. Spock…not to be confused with Dr. Spock in this episode. Photo compliments of Tram Painter at Flickr.

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What exactly is positive parenting and how it’s not about only telling them good job.

How positive parenting isn’t fluffy, powder their booties either.

A brief history in understanding how we got to where we are

What positive parenting looks like and how it has produced for us kiddos that get more compliments on “how well behaved they are.”

SHOW NOTES

The Casa de Gibson practices something called positive parenting or attachment parenting with tremendous success. When I take my kids anywhere I get assaulted with comments on how “good your kids act” and how “well behaved they are.” Now I don’t say that to toot my own horn nor do I think my kids are some types of prodigy. We simply do one thing: we practice positive parenting.

Positive Parenting doesn’t mean that we tell our kids that they are perfect…just for trying. We challenge our kids.

We set boundaries with them. We allow them logical and oft-times painful consequences for what they do (when we say “that’s gonna hurt” our kids reeeealy listen now).

But ALL of this is tempered with one thing: we treat our kids the way we would want to be treated. When you mix these things together, you get a potent combination.

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Episode 179: Birds and the Bees – Sex Talk with Kids

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Having the sex talk with kids. How the birds and the bees talk can be just as comfortable as talking about literal birds and bees.

How to talk to your younger kids about set.

How to talk about your older kids about set.

What does the Gibson family believe and teach about sex?
SHOW NOTES

First, if you ever want to go down a Google search road of embarrassment and horror, search for sex pics. Not a good idea. Thank you Flickr and your Creative Commons for offering PG “sex pics” search options.

For many parents the birds and the bees talk has become one of the most feared and reviled conversations with our kiddos.

We postpone and put off the conversation hoping that maybe through osmosis our kids will come to understand the concept of intercourse and are quite please when we realize that their school will take them through a sex-ed course.

But what if I told you that the sex-talk didn’t have to be the dreaded conversation we fear?

That it could be as comfortable as talking about their day and that you could teach them how you believe in such a way that they are more likely to follow it? It’s quite possible and find out how today.

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Episode 22 RFGP: Discipline, Correction, and Punishment. Not The Same Thing.

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Discipline, Correction, and Punishment. How they are very different things.

How most times, these concepts are completely confused and how there really are more things that just spanking.

Stories from both Jeff and Trey on failures, successes, and what we did about them.

SHOW NOTES

Today I saw a meme on Facebook (see right) that insinuated that to stop kids from becoming gangsta delinquents, we need to spank them more. Now, I get that many interpret this as “more kids need solid discipline” but there is a pervasive misunderstanding what punishment is.

Today Jeff and I touch on the tough topic of discipline, correction and punishment. Jeff summarized it best when he said:

“kids deserve to be disciplined. They deserve to be corrected. But no kid deserves to be punished.”

Today we cover why that is and how you can absolutely set good boundaries with kids without needing to “beat it into them” and how this also doesn’t make you a laissez-faire, do whatever you want parent. Also, I highly recommend you check out Jeff’s blog on this (see below). It has WAY more good stuff in it that we couldn’t get to.

Discipline, Correction, and Punishment – a wonderful blog topic written by Jeff.

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Episode 178 Trey’s Number 1 Secret Power of Parenting

My daughter Charlotte throwing down mad-beats with Mama.

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What is the number 1 most secret power I would choose to teach people: be silly with your kids.

The story of how this once non-silly man received his PhD. in silliness from Kids-ton University.

The incredible break-throughs we had in our family due to it.

What the Gibson family does to be silly.

SHOW NOTES

So I’ve been looking to touch on some more of the funner parts of being a parent cause let me be clear on something…parenting can actually be 90% fun with only 10% stress. No…seriously.

So I got to thinking about what my number 1 most secret power is as a parent and I realized it was simply this: I am silly with my kids.

I play with them. I laugh with them. I interact with them without distractions like phones, chores, or other things that keep my eyes from the kiddos.

I think we throw the idea of silliness around somewhat jovially and perhaps flippantly, so I think we have a tendency to miss how effective it can be. How much in can actually help produce the behaviors we are wanting from our kids.

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Episode 177: Parenting Slaves

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*How research for a light-hearted topic, led to an aha discovery of parenting slaves.

How many parents approach to parenting is awfully close to both slavery and bullying…mine too….

Sound bites on how kids feel about this.

Beliefs on how all men (including kids) are created equal to choose and be led, rather than decided for and commanded.

SHOW NOTES

What started out as some research for a light-hearted episode on kids saying the darndest things, led to an interesting and insightful video of kids describing slavery, what it looks like, and why it’s “bad”. This quickly got me to thinking how modern parenting techniques actually fit the definitions the kids and dictionaries were giving of slavery.

By definition, slavery is a system under which people are treated as property and forced to work. Slaves can be held agains their will from the time of birth and deprived the rights to leave, to refuse to work, or demand compensation.

As I listened to these kiddos describing literal slavery and I coupled that to the authentic definition, I couldn’t help but think that we treat our kids like slaves in many cases.

Okay, no money transfer is present (in most cases…heh) but the similarities were striking. Are we slaving out kids?

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Episode 21 The Real Family Guys Podcast: Blended Family Parenting

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How blended family parenting is different, but not THAT different from intact family parenting.

Thehopethat blended families can be something totally unique, that intact families cannot experience. How cool!

Suggestions for blended families and smoothing out wrinkles.

SHOW NOTES

I think that blended families get a bad rap. Often they are seen as lesser than families or as broken relationships that are destined to be dysfunctional. But lets be real honest, there are plenty of intact families that meet this criteria.

Today Jeff and I discuss how blended family parenting is in fact different, but AWESOME! It comes with it’s unique challenges, but also holds within its power to be awesome, and in some ways, more cool and stronger than your intact fams.

Jeff and I address the worries, concerns, and give suggestions on how to make your blended family into a fruit smoothie. See what I did there…..

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Episode 176: Is Lying to Kids Ever Acceptable?

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How we typically expect our kids to not lie to us, but then find ourselves lying to kids.

Why then do we lie?

What things do parents justify lying to their kids about.

Trey’s take on whether or not Santa Clause is lying to kids.

SHOW NOTES

As a disclaimer, this episode will have some things that many may be offended with.

If you do not handle a challenge to the status quo, I do not recommend this episode.

SImply defined, a lie is a an intentionally false statement. Most parents seem to have a very high level of expectation for our kids regarding lying. We often say “just don’t lie to me.” With that stated, I’m surprised at how many lies we (yes, myself included) tell to our kids “for their good.”

We will typically justify it with statements like “I’m trying to protect them.” But the question remains, is lying ever okay? Would we accept our kids lying to us to protect us? And just to mix things up, is Santa lying to a kid based off of our initial definition of a lie?

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