Precarious Parenting

Elianne Elbaum is the Director of the Global Centre at UTEC University in Uruguay and, through this role, she supports tribes and first nation people within their communities.

She discusses her experience as a new mother and how she felt 'so alone' and 'left behind' in her world. She compares this to how new mothers are treated within the communities she studies and how she sees parental wellbeing as the key to children's wellbeing. 

Elianne has written a short book/essay called 'Making Parenting Better', which considers what developed societies might be like if we moved from a market economy to a care economy. 

Elainne can be contacted on Instagram: @Elianne Elbaum

or Twitter: @Eli_Elbaum 

Making Parenting Better can be purchased via Kindle

Lorina Troy shares her shocking story of having her children removed. A mis-diagnosis led to her children being fostered, their father being arrested under two felonies linked to this mis-diagnosis, losing their home, marriage break-down ... to proving the mis-diagnosis, fighting for her children to be returned, all the way to successfully having the law changed for the right to a second medical opinion. 

Lorina's story is fascinating. Her book is called 'Miracles of Faith' and can be found on www.westbowpress.com

Lorina can be contacted via FaceBook: https://m.facebook.com/LorinaTroy/

Sue Atkins helps us see that raising happy, confident kids can be hard, but the good news is that when the going gets tough, we're not alone!

With over 15 years experience as a parenting coach and teacher, Sue is the Parenting Expert for ITV's 'This Morning', BBC Radio, Disney Junior, Good Morning Britain and India's Education and Parenting World.

She guides parents to overcome their challenges and develop their own balanced, down to earth parenting approach that creates happy, positive children, and relaxed confident parents.

Sue is the author of the Amazon bestseller 'Parenting Made Easy – How To Raise Happy Children' as well as 'Raising Happy Children for Dummies' – one in the famous black & yellow series. 

Sue also has lots of free resources on her website.

thesueatkins.com

Tom Kreffer has diarised his experience from the moment he found out he was going to become a dad and he now writes books in the format of daily journal entries: (Dear Dory: Journal of a Soon-to-be First-time Dad) is about pregnancy from a soon-to-be dad's perspective. His second book (Dear Arlo: Adventures in Dadding) covers the first year (newborn to one-year-old) and his third, about to be released, looks at the second year of parenthood.

Tom believes that talking about pregnancy from a dad's perspective is an underserved market. He feels that, fortunately, there is an increasing focus on encouraging dads to speak up. 

Tom is able to blend humour with profound emotional truth and his books make people laugh, relate and reflect. 

www.tomkreffer.com

@tom_kreffer

Debbie Ausburn is a social worker turned lawyer, former foster parent, and current stepparent, and she written a book titled, 'Raising Other People's Children: What Foster Parenting Taught Me about Bringing Together a Blended Family.' 

Debbie has spent decades working with traumatised children and this fascinating chat looks at the journey to writing her book.

DebbieAusburn.com

raisingotherpeopleschildren.com

Hans Kullberg's 10-month-old daughter, Aviva, passed away in November 2020 and he takes time in this podcast to explain how he has grieved, and still grieves.

He is building a legacy in Aviva's name through a series of children's illustrated books: Baby Aviva Orangutan Diva, and by encouraging others to take a closer look at grief and the grieving process.

Contact Hans on IG @avivasdad or via www.hanskullberg.com

Mavis Karn, LSW, MA, is an incredibly wise woman. She works in private practice offering coaching, counselling, teaching, education and consulting services. Here she discusses an important lesson she has offered her clients for more than 40 years.

Deep listening gives people the opportunity to begin changing their lives, restore hope, and greatly increase their ability to experience peace and joy and serve others.

She published the thesis 'The Myth of Peer Pressure', and a well-known letter to juvenile inmates, called 'The Secret'. Here's a link to her letter: https://www.realisationworks.com/post/the-secret-by-mavis-karn

Mavis' honesty and humble "true north" understanding of the principles underpinning the human psychological experience is deeply and broadly respected by clients and colleagues.

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Ali Fanshawe is a parenting language specialist and founder of Fzzykids. In this podcast she shares her personal experience of adopting two children with educational learning needs, plus emotional and behavioural issues - what Ali refers to as being fizzy!

Once she had understood and accepted that that things aren't always how we think they should be, Ali now feels able to share her journey and, therefore, offer support to other parents of fizzy kids.

www.fizzykids.co.uk

Jack Pransky is a Three Principles author, trainer and practitioner: a coach of coaches and a counsellor of counsellors. He is a national and international consultant, speaker, and author who has worked in the field of prevention and community organising since 1968. He has written a range of books for children and adults.

In this podcast we discuss his book: Parenting From The Heart.

Jack talks about parenting honestly and openly, guiding us to listen deeply to our children and, from there, we'll be guided by well-being, not by our emotional state of mind.

This podcast isn't just about parenting;  the ability to listen deeply to another person is helpful for us all. 

Jack and I are hosting a four-part online programme called Parenting From The Heart in June and July 2024. Here's the event link: https://lu.ma/9w8hbjry

Find out more about Jack at www.insideoutunderstanding.com

SF Banks is a man on a mission; he's full of energy and positivity, even though a traumatic event at the age of 16 could have meant things may have turned out very differently. 

SF sees his vocation as supporting teens. He feels the pandemic has opened up opportunities for the future of younger people and says it's a great time to be inspired.

Find SF on www.ychiamag.com and @sfdreamsbig