Join me as we discuss:

 

• The Modern Family Mindset.
• Where and when this occured and how it is not a long-standing ideology.
• How it is affecting our kiddos?
• How does this in turn affect us as parents?
• What can we do to make it better?

Join me today as we discuss:

 

• Why this topic is probably the most important to me.
• What does research say consistent praise does for kids?
• Why do so many parents struggle to praise their kids.
• How do we super-charge our praise to be authentic, genuine, and effective.

On this episode we will discuss:

 

• What is cutting, burning, and NSSI?
• What can lead to a kid doing these things to themselves?
• Special Guest: Corrie Gibson discusses her experiences with cutting and provides insight/advice for parents.
• What are we to do as parents?

On this episode we will discuss:

 

*What is emotional competency.

*Why is it so important?

*Discuss how very few have a solid understanding of the different emotional states.

*Cover why we as parents MUST be effective at handling our emotional crap.

*Discuss techniques on just how to do that.

*Talk about ways we can help our kids handle their emotions in addition to us modeling how.

In this episode we will discuss:

 

*Why is building up your kid so important?

*What does research say about the top influencers of our kids?

*How can we as parents do just that?

 

My forgiveness to all subscribers.  A plugin called BuddyPress failed this afternoon.  I’ve made the appropriate changes and all should be well.  I will be uploading Episode 3 today where we will talk about building our kids up.

Episode 2

Foundation of Parenting

 

 

In this episode we will discuss:

 

• What is the elemental foundation of working with our kids?
•  Parents should be creating as many positive experiences as possible for our kids.
• The power of “good job” and not hearing anything from us when kids do well.
• Getting kids to respect us.
• Putting ourselves in our kids shoes.
• Communication skills and how important they are with our kids.
• Handling our own emotional crap!
• Working out marriages and how they affect our kids.
• Importance of taking care of ourselves.
• Disciplining our Children.
• Teaching our children what your family believes!

Episode 1

What is The Family Podcast Network

 

 

In this episode we will discuss:

 

• What is The Family Podcast Network.
• How was FPN created.
• What is at the heart of FPN.
• The hosts credentials.
• FPN is not about criticism and judgement, but about growing!

The Family Podcast Network offers podcasts to parents who want professional information on parenting for kids that are tough, and even those that are not. I will be offering 3 podcasts a week free of charge that will be fun, informative, research-based and potentially answer the question about your kid or parenting that you have had. Family Parenting Network will offer a network for you to connect with other parents that are experiencing similar or the same things you are and exchange struggles, ideas, and support.

 

After getting a Master’s Degree in Psychology and training a host of parents from multiple different races, backgrounds, income levels, I knew I’d found my passion: showing people how to experience stress free parenting. One irrefutable fact I have learned is that, regardless of where you are in parenting, we all have one thing very much in common: we are all doing the absolute very best we can and in that top performance, we still mess up as parents. This seems to be an issue many parents struggle to want to admit (I admit it in myself as well).

 

Fundamentally we parents are all susceptible to the human condition in that we make mistakes. I have been teaching parenting trainings for the last 5 years and when asked “Trey, am I a bad parent” I always tell them that a bad parent is not defined by making mistakes, or how many they make, but upon how willing are they to be honest about them and actually work on changing them.  My desire for parents is not to be perfect at your job (good luck with that one), but to find skills and knowledge, and have a solid understanding of their kids and their kids.

 

The purpose with Family Network Podcast is to freely talk about the issues that parents face and how we can  make parenting more fun! The issues I discuss, and their solutions, will in most cases be empirically studied (a bunch of nerds in this field [no offense intended…I’m one too] have studied it and tested whether it works or does not work) and not just “what worked for me.”