Welcome back and as always, thanks for listening! In this episode:

Situation of the Week (Kelly): Negotiating with a child about an unfair situation and trying to meet everyone's needs

Topic: Toddlers, part 1 (begins 7:33)

Q&A: Do you interact differently with your kids in public? (begins 28:20)

Yes, this is a long one! We got rather carried away with toddlers, and will be posting part 2 as part of another podcast.

Here's the book we tried and failed to recall the title of during the Toddlers section, The Aware Baby:

Enjoy, and please let us know how we're doing!

Okay, so I lied about having a new process for recording the podcasts beginning with Podcast 9. Stay tuned for THAT on Podcast 11! :o

Here's the line up:

Situation of the Week (Jenn): Dealing with a major potty regression

Topic: Positive Discipline Tool Cards (begins 7:00)

Q&A: What is the difference between Natural and Logical Consequences? (begins 22:02)

Thanks, as always, for listening! Send us your feedback: [email protected]. And join our Facebook Fan Page!

And we're back, after our somewhat longish break! We intend to get back on a more frequent publishing basis for a little while. Our lineup this time:

Situation of the Week (Jenn): Mom Keeping her Temper FTW! (Decide What You Will Do Positive Discipline Tool Card)

Topic: Praise versus Encouragement (begins 5:35)

Q&A: Uncles and Aunts (begins 18:44)

Technical note: Podcast 8 was the last one we recorded using Audacity on a PC (which we then transferred into GarageBand for editing on the Mac). Beginning with Podcast 9, we recorded directly into GarageBand, and we're hoping that will improve some of the buzzing I keep hearing. At the very least, it will be easier for editing, and Brendan is going to teach Kelly and me how to do more the editing ourselves. Which may--or may not--result in more frequent posting.

This episode is our most FUN podcast to date (in my--Jenn's--humble). This time we have:

Situation of the Week (Kelly): A reminder to give gentle feedback to children

Topic: Siblings (begins 4:26)

Q & A: Negotiating with a child--what to do if the child doesn't hold up his end of the bargain (begins 21:07)

Here's a link to the book we mentioned at the end of the section on Siblings--SO highly recommended:

I think that Podcast #7 is where we started to get our stride. It's fun, and enjoyable, and I hope you like it, too!

In other exciting podcasting news: You can now find us on iTunes! We feel like real-live grownup podcasters now! (Thanks so much to Diana and Andrew M. for your assistance with this process!) I will add this podcast shortly, as soon as I can figure out how, but the first six episodes are up. We'd really appreciate you taking the time to visit us on iTunes and rating our podcast.

As always, thanks for listening, and please continue to send us comments, questions, and feedback to [email protected].

This week's topic is The Trader Principle!

Situation of the Week (Kelly): Helping a child manage her frustrations

Topic: The Trader Principle (begins at 5:51)

Q&A: Toothbrushing Tactics (begins at 17:07)

Thanks for listening! This podcast marks the end of our first group of recordings. We made a couple of changes beginning with Podcast #7. I hope the technical changes will not be apparent, or at least improve the listening experience. And next time we'll have our first question for the Q&A that came to us after we started podcasting.

Enjoy this week's podcast, and help us spread the word! As always, send us email at [email protected]. We'd love some constructive feedback, and of course, questions for our Q&A or topic suggestions.

Our busy lives have prevented us from getting this podcast up before today, but we trust you'll understand. :o)

This week, we have:

Situation of the Week (Jenn): Dealing with pointless bickering

Topic: Free Range Parenting (begins 4:26)

Q&A: Childhood Fears (begins 18:45)

One thing we forgot to do was mention Lenore Skenazy by name! (Lenore, should you ever happen upon this post and podcast, sorry!) She is the woman who kicked off the Free Range Kids movement (is it a movement?). Her website is: http://freerangekids.com. Her book is called Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry).

We also talked about a wonderful book by Gavin De Becker, which has great common sense ideas for teaching kids to be safety-conscious (without freaking them out unnecessarily). His book is called Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane).

Hopefully we'll get back to our approximately once-a-week podcast schedule! Thanks for your patience.

Also, keep your questions coming! Email us at [email protected].

This week's podcast features a discussion on the virtue of Independence and how parents can encourage independence of thought and action in children. Here's the lineup:

Situation of the Week (Kelly): Handling conflict with a child/choosing battles

Topic: Independence (begins 5:30)

Q&A: What are some ways to deal with kids interrupting? (begins 19:06)

As always, please leave us some feedback in the comments (here or at our main blog, Cultivating the Virtues), or email us at [email protected].

I'm happy that we have finally streamlined our production process (all thanks to Brendan!) and it's taking much less time for us to edit the raw podcast files. And starting with our next recording session (beginning with Podcast #9, as the first 8 have already been recorded), our process will become easier and quicker because we'll have access to a Mac laptop. Hoo. Ray.

Many of our listeners have requested that we produce the podcast in iTunes format, and that is definitely on our list of things to do! We'll make an announcement as soon as we get to that. In the meantime, thanks for listening and thanks for your patience! :o)

And this process is becoming slightly easier! Hooray! A million thanks to Brendan for his work. We had a few technical wrinkles to smooth over (hopefully the final wrinkles), so this week's podcast is a little simpler in production.

Situation of the Week (Jenn): A child models correct behavior for another child, FTW!

Topic: Why Non-Punitive Discipline/The Ambassador Analogy (begins 3:42)

Q&A: Celebrating Holidays as non-religious parents (begins 12:55)

We hope you enjoy! See you next week!

Here's the second podcast! Woohoo!

The format for this time is:

Situation of the Week (by Kelly)

Topic: Temperament (begins around 4:54)

Q&A (begins around 28:17)

Yes, we went REALLY long on our topic, partly because it's a favorite one of ours, and partly because we forgot to watch our time! (Chalk that second reason up to our learning curve).

Brendan did an absolutely AMAZING job of editing our podcast! He fixed the extreme left-right-stereo problem (which couldn't have been avoided for the first podcast due to some of the technical problems we had recording the first podcast). But it sounds MUCH better. He also made our music sound fancy, and don't miss the section with Morgan, Ryan, and Livy, just before the Q&A begins! We know that our sounds are still very poppy (hard P sounds, for instance), but we changed the position of the microphones beginning with the third podcast, so hopefully you'll find that this is less noticeable beginning next time.

Our plan for now is to release a podcast about once a week, usually on a Monday or Tuesday. So check back next week for Podcast #3!

After many, MANY stops and starts, corrupted files, and just general fussing with it, we are proud to present our very first podcast! We have a few more in the queue, and we are hoping that now that we have finished cruising around this learning curve, getting those podcasts up and published will be somewhat easier and less time-consuming! There are parts that are a little choppy, and mostly that's because we couldn't recover a few bits of files here and there. We trust you will be understanding.

We couldn't have done this without the Herculean efforts of Brendan Casey, who patiently resurrected corrupted files and tinkered with the sound levels and made this podcast sound so very nice. Thanks. :o)