Episode 17: Taking Time for Ourselves

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Join me as we discuss:

*How many parents treat parenting as a 24hr/day 7 days a week, 365 Days a Year job.

*Why this mentality, though it seems selfless, does not actually work.

*Why we have to take time for ourselves as parents.

*What happens when we don’t.

*How many parents have jacked up priorities.

*What do you NEED to be doing.

Episode 16: How to Make Rules that Work

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Join me as we discuss: 

*Why effective rule making, whether at home or in the classroom, are more than just the rules.

*What are the three building blocks of making rules that our kids will actually listen to.

*Why many times perfectly good rules will collapse with our kids…and NO!  You probably DON’T have a bad kid.

*Steps to building rules that will work.

 

Episode 15: Parenting/Teaching Styles that Just Don’t Work

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Join me today as we discuss:

*The different styles of parenting that just don’t work.
*What about them fails.
*How these “parenting” styles are completely synonymous with “teaching” styles.
*How these are implemented in the home…and in the classroom.

 

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Episode 14: Rewarding Motivation and not Just Our Kids Actions

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Join me today as we discuss:

 

*What is Positive Reinforcement Parent

*Why it’s good to start with but needs to be modified.

*Why motivation to do right things promotes good behavior, EVEN when we’re not watching!

*How my wife and I use a pebble system (effectively) to generate good behavior.

*Why we need to earn our kids respect just as much as we expect them to earn ours.

Episode 13: Kids and Individualized Attention

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Join me as we discuss:

*Giving individualized attention

*General-Attention

*Individual-Attention

*How both are important but IA is typically overlooked.

*How this helps us catch the attention of our more introverted children.

Episode 11 – Kids As Our Mirrors

 

Join me as I discuss:

 

  • Kids and where they learn all this stuff that drives us nuts!
  • The not-so-fun truth to kids behaviors.
  • How to approach it this truth with our kids.
  • How to see changes in our kids behaviors.

Episode 10 – Discipline: To Whoop or Not to Whoop

Join me as we discuss:

 

  • My stance on spanking and why it’s probably NOT what you’re thinking.
  • What modern spanking is and the effects I’m seeing in my office because of it.
  • What types of relationships are fostered with the “95%-type spanking” I see?
  • Other forms of discipline that are effective.

Episode 9 – Cracking the Code of Talking with Kids

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Join us as we discuss:

 

  • Why many if not most issues deal with crappy communication.
  • The Cardinal No-No of Comms with Kids
  • What is the Secret of Talking to Kids
  • Confrontation vs. Criticism
  • Why we should negotiate with our frickin’ kids!

Episode 8 – Listener Feedback 10/21/11

Join us today as we address listener feedback questions:

 

  • What to do about a whining kid.
  • How to respond to a kid that has started hitting you (or anyone in the family).
  • Crying when dropping off at daycare.
  • Reactions to shoplifting.
  • Spilling drinks (or other semi-negligent behaviors from kids that are old enough to not do it).