The Parenting Coach Podcast

WARNING: this episode may not be suitable for young listeners. We talk openly about sexual content.

Talking to your kids about the birds & bees can be really uncomfortable. And most people dread the idea of having “THE TALK”… but it doesn’t have to be this way!

My guest, Amy Lang had been a sex educator for over 16 years when she freaked out about talking to her young son about her favorite topic.

Surprised by her discomfort with just the idea of talking with her young son about his body, she knew she needed help. Amy did a bunch of research to learn how to talk with kids about bodies and sexuality and realized she could help other parents with this important part of parenting. 

Amy combined her expertise in adult education and her love of sexual health and started Birds & Bees & Kids in 2006. Her mission is to help parents feel comfortable and confident when they have these important conversations.

Through her books, classes, online solutions center, and podcast Amy has helped 1000’s of parents around the world become their kids’ go-to birds and bees source.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• What age to start talking to your little kids about sex
• Why it’s so important to regularly talk to your kids throughout childhood about sex
• How to get over the initial awkwardness and what types of things should be included in conversations around sexuality
• How to teach your family values while teaching sexuality
• Where to start in sex conversations, if these talks haven’t been part of your family culture so far (and why it’s an important responsibility of parenthood)

Links and Resources from this episode (the ones mentioned in this episode are in bold)

Website: Birds & Bees & Kids

• Just Say This Podcast
  IG: @birdsbeeskids
  FB: @birdsbeeskids
  Books linked here.

Resources for parents and caregivers:

Sex Talks with Tweens: What to Say & How to Say It 

Birds & Bees & YOUR Kids: A Guide to Sharing Your Beliefs about Sexuality, Love & Relationships 

Birds & Bees Talk:

• It’s NOT the Stork (4 - 6)
• It’s SO Amazing (4 - 11) 
• It’s Perfectly Normal (11+ - and you if you are feeling rusty!) 
• The Every Body Book: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families

Puberty

• Will Puberty Last My Whole Life? - for everyone
• Celebrate Your Body (puberty only) - for girls
• Guy Stuff (puberty only) - for boys

Porn Education

• Good Pictures Bad Pictures, Jr. (5 - 8)
• Good Pictures Bad (9+)

Body safety

• I Can Play it Safe (4 - 7)
• C is for Consent (4 - 8)
• Consent for Kids (8+)

Kid-safe videos

• Amaze.org
• Everybody Curious

Monitoring and Filtering

• Bark
• Qustodio (Outside US)

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for.

My coaching program: click here
Find me on the ‘gram: @the.parenting.coach
Work with me 1:1: click here
Website: click here

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Krista St-Germain is a Master Certified Life Coach, Post-Traumatic Growth and grief expert, widow, mom and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast. When her husband was killed by a drunk driver in 2016, Krista’s life was completely and unexpectedly flipped upside down. After therapy helped her uncurl from the fetal position, Krista discovered Life Coaching, Post Traumatic Growth and learned the tools she needed to move forward and create a future she could get excited about. Now she coaches and teaches other widows so they can love life again, too.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• What grief is (it’s not always to do with death)
• Why we have a hard time connecting with and supporting others through grief
• How to support others when they are dealing with grief
• What we can do for ourselves when we are in the midst of grief
• How to parent while grieving

Connect with Krista here:

• Instagram
• Website
• Facebook
• Podcast

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for.

My coaching program: click here
Find me on the ‘gram: @the.parenting.coach
Work with me 1:1: click here
Website: click here

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Daryn Hubbard Practices as a Doctor of Natural Medicine. He has a PhD in Natural Medicine and a Diploma in Homeopathic Medicine. He’s been in professional practice for over 20 years and has an interest in the autonomic nervous system’s connection to quantum medicine principles and its effect on healing. He is also a father of 6, grandfather of 3 and enjoys hiking in the backcountry.

In this podcast episode you’ll learn:

• The difference between the brain and the mind (according to quantum medicine)
• What Quantum Healing/Quantum Medicine is
• The surprising study results that Daryn found while doing a double-blind study around Quantum Medicine
• The power our thoughts have in creating our reality and changing our physical wellbeing (and some great examples of this)
• Connect with Daryn via email: [email protected]

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for.

My coaching program: click here
Find me on the ‘gram: @the.parenting.coach
Work with me 1:1: click here
Website: click here

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Sarah R. Moore is the founder of Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting and author of Peaceful Discipline: Story Teaching, Brain Science & Better Behavior. She's a public speaker, armchair neuroscientist, and most importantly, a Mama. She's a lifelong learner with training in child development, trauma recovery, interpersonal neurobiology, and improv comedy. As a certified Master Trainer in conscious parenting, she helps bring JOY, EASE, and CONNECTION back to families around the globe. Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, & Twitter.

What we talk about today:

• What positive discipline is and why it gets confused
• Why punitive parenting seems to “work”
• How to “discipline” your child in ways that truly do “work”
• Sarah’s book and some of the tools that can help us parent with peaceful discipline
• Re-training our neural pathways from punitive parenting (and having patience and compassion for our un-learning process)
• How to deal with our kids’ tricky behaviour

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for.

My coaching program: click here
Find me on the ‘gram: @the.parenting.coach
Work with me 1:1: click here
Website: click here

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Allison Dayton is the founder of the Lift and Love Foundation, which she created to support families with LGBTQ members. Allison lost her brother, who was gay, to suicide at the same time her 17-year-old son was coming out.  Looking for resources to help her family she couldn’t find anything that embraced both her religious beliefs and her son’s identity. Lift and Love fills that much needed space for thousands of families and individuals.  Allison and her husband Kenn live in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they are thrilled to watch their grown children create exciting lives and families of their own.  

Website: liftandlove.org
Insta: @liftandloveorg

In our conversation today you’ll hear:

• Allison’s story of how she got into this work (bring some tissues!)
• How to become a supportive ally for your own kids and everyone else too
• What being a safe space means and how to become that space for LGBTQ family and friends
• How to parent LGBTQ kids while maintaining your own values and ideals- especially if you come from a conservative religious background

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for.

My coaching program: click here
Find me on the ‘gram: @the.parenting.coach
Work with me 1:1: click here
Website: click here

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Gentle parenting can seem elusive and hard to do in our own homes, even when we’re trying. In order to help our children find rest (safety, security and connection) in their relationship with US, we must give this to ourselves first. We can’t give, fully, what we don’t have. Come join us as we do this work… in person, information below!!

On the podcast today:

• What gentle parenting is and different names you may hear for it (attachment parenting, connection-based parenting, conscious parenting etc.)
• How positive parenting differs from this type of parenting
• Traditional forms of parenting: authoritarian (or force) and permissiveness (no guidance)
• How changing our self-concept can change everything in parenting
• A tool to use to become more aware of your self-concept
• Come join this work in person, for the first time ever!!

ANNOUNCEMENT:

In-person energy is AMAZING, and change can be accelerated when we come together and do this work in a retreat experience. Join me at the first ever Rest, Play, Grow: The Retreat, a Self-Mothering Soul-cation for Women.

Watch a quick video of what you can expect right HERE
Get on the interest list HERE
Direct sign-up link HERE

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Monica Packer is passionate about teaching practical-but-deep transformation. As a podcaster and coach, she guides women to find sustainable growth by adopting progress over perfection. Monica is a former middle school teacher, a forever Oprah fangirl, a perpetual cookie dough maker, and an ambitious walker (last one is a joke . . . sort of). 

You can find more about Monica at aboutprogress.com and by listening to her podcast, About Progress.

What we talk about today:

• What perfectionism is and how it shows up in our life
• Perfectionism keeping us stuck from aligning our life to who we really are
• How habits have been taught traditionally and why that might not be the best way for us (especially as females/moms)
• Changing our ideas of habits around consistency and opening up our minds to a new way of habit-forming

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for.

My coaching program: click here
Find me on the ‘gram: @the.parenting.coach
Work with me 1:1: click here
Website: click here

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Sami Halvorsen is the host of The Teen Life Coach Podcast. She runs coaching programs for teens all over the world and loves working with teens! Sami works with teens in teaching them how to be self-confident, overcome anxiety, and navigate relationships and social media, so that they can start to enjoy being a teen.  

What we dig into on this episode:

• The 3 biggest challenges facing teens today (as seen in Sami’s teen coaching practice)
• Social Media and screens- what influence they may have on mental and emotional health in teens
• How teens social skills and social anxiety have been affected since covid, and what to do about it if your teen is struggling
• When to seek outside help for your teen

Sami can be found here:

Website
IG: @theteenlifecoach
Podcast
Download for parents: The 10 most important ways a parent can help their teen with anxiety

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for.

My coaching program: click here
Find me on the ‘gram: @the.parenting.coach
Work with me 1:1: click here
Website: click here

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Stephanie Pinto is an Emotional Intelligence coach who specializes in helping parents to create an Emotionally Intelligent family culture at home. She is a certified Emotional Intelligence specialist, is a trained paediatric anxiety therapist, and practiced as a Speech Pathologist for 10 years. She supports parents in learning how to manage their emotions, frustrations and stress so that they are happier, calmer and connect more deeply with their kids. Stephanie also helps parents to raise emotionally intelligent kids, who are self-aware and manage their emotions and behaviour.

In our conversation today:

• What emotional intelligence is and how we can teach it to our kids
• What emotionally intelligent parenting looks like
• The societal conditioning we have that tells us we must fit into “boxes” and how that affects our EQ and our parenting
• Learning to lean into the discomfort of our kids’ big emotions and not shy away from them 
• Beliefs from childhood that we carry around with us and interfere with our ability to parent in the way we want to
• How “good enough” parenting is always the goal, not perfection

Connect with Stephanie here:

Facebook
Facebook Group
Website
Instagram
Youtube

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for.

My coaching program: click here
Find me on the ‘gram: @the.parenting.coach
Work with me 1:1: click here
Website: click here

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Elise is a life and wellness coach, yoga teacher, and former middle school teacher who works with moms and teens. She is fascinated by brain development and the nervous system and believes that understanding these two things can make teen years so much easier for mamas and teens.

What you’ll hear today:

• Elise’s personal struggle as a teen and what she learned from it
• Why it’s important for parents to also get support, not just our kids
• Therapy/coaching is for everyone, dropping the stigma around it
• What gets in the way of connection and why it’s SO important

Connect with Elise:

• Instagram
• Website
• https://www.eliseknox.com/communication

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Coaching has changed my own life, and the lives of my clients. More connection, more healing, more harmony and peace in our most important relationships. It increases confidence in any parenting challenges and helps you be the guide to teach your children the family values that are important to you- in clear ways. If you feel called to integrate this work in a deeper way and become a parenting expert, that’s what I’m here for.

My coaching program: click here
Find me on the ‘gram: @the.parenting.coach
Work with me 1:1: click here
Website: click here

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.