Family Confidential: Secrets of Successful Parenting with Annie Fox, M.Ed.

Family Confidential: Secrets of Successful Parenting with Annie Fox, M.Ed.

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  • FCV082: FCV082 Flying Without a Helicopter — Guest: Joanie Connell, Ph.D.
    Parents often have the best intentions. We want the best (and the most) for our kids. But when parents consistently over-function in their role by stepping in and doing the work for the kids, they may end up raising young adults who under-function. "We see in the workplace that these young people aren't as resilient, as adaptable, not as able to be independent or to communicate effectively because they haven't had the opportunity to learn those skills, " says psychologist Joanie Connell, author of Flying Without a Helicopter: How To Prepare Young People for Work and Life. Annie talks with Joanie about parenting with a lighter touch so your kids can learn to do the heavy work life requires of them.
    About Joanie Connell (@ConnellLessons)
    Joanie Connell, PhD., is an organizational consultant and leadership coach who specializes in maximizing leadership potential, and the founder and CEO of Flexible Work Solutions, Inc. Dr. Connell works with companies to attract, develop, and retain top talent. Her clients are from Fortune 100 companies, not-for-profit and government agencies, and high tech, biotech, healthcare, finance, legal and other industries. As a professor, she has taught business and psychology students at all academic levels. Learn more at http://FlyingWithout.com
    Copyright © 2009-2018 Annie Fox and Electric Eggplant. All Rights Reserved.
    18 min
  • FCV081 Parent Shaming, Mercedes Samudio
    Parents are very tuned in to other parents. When we see something in public looks like "bad" parenting, our impulse to judge may be to strong to resist. But a snapshot of a situation doesn't often tell the whole story. You don't know what came before, and you don't know what's going to happen after. Rushing to judgment doesn't help child or parent. It takes a village to raise a child, but what's a concerned villager to do? "Instead of me assuming that (the parent under pressure) needs parenting help, and that I know what you need, it's better to say to come in with curiosity," says parent coach, Mercedes Samudio. "You might say to that parent, 'Hi. How are you doing? What do you need?' That gives the parent a chance to tell you what (if anything) he or she might need in the moment. And if you can help. Great!" Annie talks with Mercedes about ways to help other parents in need rather than rushing to judgement and parent shaming.
    About Mercedes Samudio (@ParentSkillz)
    Mercedes Samudio, MSW, works with families to help them develop healthy communication skills, coping skills to manage behaviors, manage severe emotional issues, develop, create dynamic parent-child relationships, and navigate social media & technology. She has worked with adoptive families, foster families teen parents, parents navigating the child protective services system, and children living with mental illness. Mercedes focuses on parent coaching and guiding families to reducing unwanted behaviors, developing effective parenting strategies, creating healthy communication habits, and designing social media/tech plans for their household. Learn more at http://TheParentingSkill.com
    Copyright © 2009-2018 Annie Fox and Electric Eggplant. All Rights Reserved.
    20 min
  • FCV081: Parent Shaming — Guest: Mercedes Samudio
    Parents are very tuned in to other parents. When we see something in public looks like "bad" parenting, our impulse to judge may be to strong to resist. But a snapshot of a situation doesn't often tell the whole story. You don't know what came before, and you don't know what's going to happen after. Rushing to judgment doesn't help child or parent. It takes a village to raise a child, but what's a concerned villager to do? "Instead of me assuming that (the parent under pressure) needs parenting help, and that I know what you need, it's better to say to come in with curiosity," says parent coach, Mercedes Samudio. "You might say to that parent, 'Hi. How are you doing? What do you need?' That gives the parent a chance to tell you what (if anything) he or she might need in the moment. And if you can help. Great!" Annie talks with Mercedes about ways to help other parents in need rather than rushing to judgement and parent shaming.
    About Mercedes Samudio (@ParentSkillz)
    Mercedes Samudio, MSW, works with families to help them develop healthy communication skills, coping skills to manage behaviors, manage severe emotional issues, develop, create dynamic parent-child relationships, and navigate social media & technology. She has worked with adoptive families, foster families teen parents, parents navigating the child protective services system, and children living with mental illness. Mercedes focuses on parent coaching and guiding families to reducing unwanted behaviors, developing effective parenting strategies, creating healthy communication habits, and designing social media/tech plans for their household. Learn more at http://TheParentingSkill.com
    Copyright © 2009-2018 Annie Fox and Electric Eggplant. All Rights Reserved.
    20 min
  • FCV080 Bullying. A rite of passage?!, Tammy Motola
    Bullying is a learned behavior, and we want the perpetrators to _unlearn_ it as quickly as possible. But what and how can targeted kids teach the aggressor? Obviously, if a child is being harassed, he or she needs to tell somebody. But who should kids turn to for help? According to anti-bully activist Tammy Motola, "More than three million kids are bullied at school each year, but only _four percent_ of teachers intervene while that's taking place." Why so few? Is it because "kids will be kids" and according to many adults, bullying is a "rite of passage"? Annie talks with Tammy about the current state of bullying in schools and what we can do to help our kids.
    About Tammy Motola (@tmotola)
    Tammy Motola is passionate about healthcare and has a background in nursing and behavioral health. Her desire to help others is evident in her advocacy work across the country and other parts of the world where she speaks frequently about bullying and the effects. She is the founder of Rezilir Health, a healthcare group that is creating resilient health communities by focusing on everything from nutrition to the environment which impacts our health and overall wellbeing. She is the proud mother of four grown children. Learn more at http://TammyMotola.com
    Copyright © 2009-2018 Annie Fox and Electric Eggplant. All Rights Reserved.
    20 min
  • FCV080: Bullying. A rite of passage?! — Guest: Tammy Motola
    Bullying is a learned behavior, and we want the perpetrators to _unlearn_ it as quickly as possible. But what and how can targeted kids teach the aggressor? Obviously, if a child is being harassed, he or she needs to tell somebody. But who should kids turn to for help? According to anti-bully activist Tammy Motola, "More than three million kids are bullied at school each year, but only _four percent_ of teachers intervene while that's taking place." Why so few? Is it because "kids will be kids" and according to many adults, bullying is a "rite of passage"? Annie talks with Tammy about the current state of bullying in schools and what we can do to help our kids.
    About Tammy Motola (@tmotola)
    Tammy Motola is passionate about healthcare and has a background in nursing and behavioral health. Her desire to help others is evident in her advocacy work across the country and other parts of the world where she speaks frequently about bullying and the effects. She is the founder of Rezilir Health, a healthcare group that is creating resilient health communities by focusing on everything from nutrition to the environment which impacts our health and overall wellbeing. She is the proud mother of four grown children. Learn more at http://TammyMotola.com
    Copyright © 2009-2018 Annie Fox and Electric Eggplant. All Rights Reserved.
    20 min
  • FCV079 Raising Resilient Girls, Dr. Laura Choate
    We hear a lot about "girl power," but in many ways our culture disempowers girls. How so? According to Dr. Laura Choate, author of Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture, our culture (through stylized clothes, toys, dance classes, TV, movies, pop stars, etc.) teaches girls that they have to "define their worth and value in their appearance. And not just being thin and beautiful, but also being as hot and sexy as possible." Annie talks with Dr. Choate about how parents can make deliberate choices to help their daughters grow into strong resilience young women in spite of the messages of the broader culture.
    About Laura Choate (@drlaurachoate)
    Dr. Laura Choate holds the Jo Ellen Levy Yates Endowed Professorship in the College of Human Sciences and Education at Louisiana State University. She has 15 years of experience as a counselor educator at LSU and 16 years as a licensed professional counselor. Her books include Adolescent Girls in Distress: A Guide to Mental Health Treatment and Prevention and Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture. Learn more at DrLauraChoate.wordpress.com
    Copyright © 2009-2018 Annie Fox and Electric Eggplant. All Rights Reserved.
    19 min
  • FCV079: Raising Resilient Girls — Guest: Dr. Laura Choate
    We hear a lot about "girl power," but in many ways our culture disempowers girls. How so? According to Dr. Laura Choate, author of Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture, our culture (through stylized clothes, toys, dance classes, TV, movies, pop stars, etc.) teaches girls that they have to "define their worth and value in their appearance. And not just being thin and beautiful, but also being as hot and sexy as possible." Annie talks with Dr. Choate about how parents can make deliberate choices to help their daughters grow into strong resilience young women in spite of the messages of the broader culture.
    About Laura Choate (@drlaurachoate)
    Dr. Laura Choate holds the Jo Ellen Levy Yates Endowed Professorship in the College of Human Sciences and Education at Louisiana State University. She has 15 years of experience as a counselor educator at LSU and 16 years as a licensed professional counselor. Her books include Adolescent Girls in Distress: A Guide to Mental Health Treatment and Prevention and Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture. Learn more at DrLauraChoate.wordpress.com
    Copyright © 2009-2018 Annie Fox and Electric Eggplant. All Rights Reserved.
    19 min
  • FCV078 Social Media-School Gap, Matt Renwick
    When kids have issues with other kids outside of the school day, it can bleed over into the next day at school. And the day after that. So much so that school hallways and lunchrooms can begin to feel like battlegrounds. How can schools help? "It's definitely not a technology gap," says school administrator Matt Renwick. "Kids are very intuitive and can figure things out on their own." The problem, he says, isn't a matter of giving them the tech tools, it is teaching them how to use technology responsibly. Annie talks to Matt about reducing the social media conflicts by helping kids use those teachable moments to process how to work through conflicts in responsible ways. He also encourages his teachers to provide classroom lessons on the responsible use of social media.
    About Matt Renwick (@ReadByExample)
    Matt Renwick is in his seventeenth year in public education. He has been a classroom teacher and a dean of students at the junior high level. Matt is currently an elementary school principal. At his blog, Reading By Example, he writes about the role of the student leader in general and often where leadership and the use of social media intersect. Learn more at http://MattRenwick.com
    Copyright © 2009-2018 Annie Fox and Electric Eggplant. All Rights Reserved.
    16 min
  • FCV078: Social Media-School Gap — Guest: Matt Renwick
    When kids have issues with other kids outside of the school day, it can bleed over into the next day at school. And the day after that. So much so that school hallways and lunchrooms can begin to feel like battlegrounds. How can schools help? "It's definitely not a technology gap," says school administrator Matt Renwick. "Kids are very intuitive and can figure things out on their own." The problem, he says, isn't a matter of giving them the tech tools, it is teaching them how to use technology responsibly. Annie talks to Matt about reducing the social media conflicts by helping kids use those teachable moments to process how to work through conflicts in responsible ways. He also encourages his teachers to provide classroom lessons on the responsible use of social media.
    About Matt Renwick (@ReadByExample)
    Matt Renwick is in his seventeenth year in public education. He has been a classroom teacher and a dean of students at the junior high level. Matt is currently an elementary school principal. At his blog, Reading By Example, he writes about the role of the student leader in general and often where leadership and the use of social media intersect. Learn more at http://MattRenwick.com
    Copyright © 2009-2018 Annie Fox and Electric Eggplant. All Rights Reserved.
    16 min
  • FCV077 Making Home a Safe Place, Tyler Durman
    We know that kids learn by making mistakes, but we're not always comfortable with that reality. As author and educator Tyler Durman puts it, "The way we react to our kids' mistakes really tells them (whether) they are safe to come to us with their imperfections or not. And also our own vulnerability and our willingness to say we're sorry when we've blown it... to invite them into our (personal) journey and the things we (as adults) are working on." Annie talks with Tyler about how life is a journey that includes failure and how we, as parents, can ease off from pressuring our kids to be "perfect" and, instead, help them use mistakes to make progress.
    About Tyler Durman (@tylerdurman)
    During the last 24 years, Tyler Durman, speaker, author and former teacher, has had 1000's of one-on-one conversations where students have confided things they've never told anyone. This has given him a unique window into their lives. Author of "Counter Intuitive: What 4 Million Teenagers Wish We Knew," Tyler is sought after by schools and conferences who want to help students make better choices by caring for each other and becoming positive leaders. Learn more at http://BiteSizedWisdom.com
    Copyright © 2009-2018 Annie Fox and Electric Eggplant. All Rights Reserved.
    22 min

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Family Confidential: Secrets of Successful Parenting is a biweekly podcast that focuses on 21st century parenting challenges and solutions. Hosted by Annie Fox and produced by Electric Eggplant,…