This week Joanna is talking about how we parents can be our children's influencer in a sea of social media influencers.  This involves that all too fine a line between being interested in what interests our children versus being intrusive and being open to receive and respond to any questions and curiosity they might have

Joanna responds to recent tragic news events with some practical suggestions and guidance as to how we can find the words and means to explain difficult news stories to our children and how to support them (and ourselves) through it.

Joanna responds to a parents question about how much time their 1-year-old should be able to play alone by talking us through the phases of play in those very early years...this is one of those times a parental want (that our children play alone) clashes with our children's need (to check in with us) 

Joanna responds to a number of questions she has received about how best to encourage our children to share and why does it matter? She emphasises that fine line between encouraging sharing but never forcing it and talks us through why this matters

Joanna tables the touchy subject of self-touch in young children. She talks us through how body curiosity in children is both normal and healthy and how we might best respond to such behaviour in our children in a non-shaming way

Joanna is taking a short break from recording so this episode is an excerpt from her 15-Minute Parenting series of books. Today's excerpt is from her Teenager Years  book and Joanna is reading to us about the transition into adulthood and being the adult child of aged parents. She also reads from some letters from parents on the advice they would give to their teenage selves and she invites you to bring to mind what advice you would whisper into the ear of your teenage self as you listen

Joanna is taking a short break from recording so this episode is an excerpt from her 15-Minute Parenting series of books.  Today's excerpt is from her 8-12 years book and Joanna is reading to us about homework and how to creatively and playfully support our children's learning

Joanna is taking a short break from recording so this episode is an excerpt from her 15-Minute Parenting series of books.  Today's excerpt is from her 0-7 years book and Joanna is reading to us about building our children's capacity for independence through chores and pocket money and of course, play

Joanna talks about why joy and the experience of shared joy isn't just a nice experience but is an essential one as we grow and develop throughout our lives.  She distinguishes between happiness and joy and helps us to understand why we must invest in joy and gives us suggestions of ways to find joy in the everyday stuff