Episode 36_Ellen Thomas on Parenting Kiddo’s with Disabilities

Join me as we discuss:

*Struggles and victories Ellen went through raising a kiddo with a disability.

*Ellen’s encouragement that “you are not alone!”

*How to pick safe people to talk to about your kiddo, and why it is necessary.

*The need to familiarize yourself with your kids educational rights and being and advocate for them.

SHOW NOTES

Ellen Thomas Website
Buy Ellens Book on Amazon:
The Bipolar Express: One Christian Woman’s Life Journey in the Company of a Child with Bipolar Disorder and Asperger’s Syndrome

Episode 35_What’s Love Got to Do with It: Talking to Kids About Love

Photo compliments of Daniel.Lee

Join me as we discuss:

*Funny story about VD…just listen and it will make sense….

*An article about love actually coming second.

*Why it is so vitally important that kids learn to discrimiate between what love is and isn’t.

*How you need to know what you believe about love and be able to teach it.

SHOW NOTES:

For Happy Couples_Love Comes Second Article

FPN Blog Topic on Kids Reaction to “what is love?”

Episode 34_Allowing Consequences: The Art of Screwing Up

"Screwing Up"

Join me as we discuss:

*Letting your kids screw up…yes…even when it sucks to do.

*A couple of major reasons I think parents struggle with allowing failures.

*Why divorced parents struggle with this.

*How to let them mess up…and how not to.

Episode 33_Logical Consequences and Why Punishment Doesn’t Always Work

Photo compliments of bbcworldservice.

Join me as we discuss:

*What are logical consequences.

*How they are different from punishment.

*Why punishment along RARELY works.

*How we can rely on Consequences to help produce better results.

SHOW NOTES:

csefel Article on Logical Consequences

Episode 32_Facebook Parenting Response: Dad Shoots Teen’s Laptop

Join me as we discuss:

*Viral YouTube video about a dad that shoots his daughter in response to a candid letter she writes about parents.

*Response to mean-spirited folks that have been particularly hateful.

*Response to those who have idealized him as a hero.

*A balanced response to what was done.

*How I feel about his response.

SHOW NOTES:

YouTube Video by Dad

Balanced DailyMail Article on the Video

MicroCast Topic: Being Honest with Other Parents

Family Podcast Network is now releasing MicroCasts (ultra-short topics that occur to me randomly during the day) on Facebook and Twitter. To make sense of these posts Like FPN on Facebook and Twitter to listen to the MicroCasts.

In today’s MicroCast we discussed making mistakes as parents and being honest about them. I promised you a failure story of my own to kick off the party so here we go:

When my son Grant was about 6-8 months old we realized we had a cryzie-baby. Little dude didnt relent of the fussing.

This led me to believe that he was, in fact, a fussy baby. This was particularly baneful to me since my daughter just didn’t cry much but I went on accepting the best I could that he was a fussy baby.

A few weeks later we took him in for one of his checkups to which the doctor informed us that he had an acute ear infection and that the fluid behind his ear-drum was so bad it might rupture.

I realized instantly I had been labeling my son a fussy baby when he was actually just in pain.

I felt like doo…

Feel free to share yours in the comments section below! We’ve all got them.