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Celebrating Your Child’s “Name Day”
Ideas for celebrating your child’s “name day” at home. Teaching your child about his patron saint will give him a holy role model. Plus it nourishes your Catholic family identity. What’s not to celebrate?!
Types of Alpha Kids (Ep. 15)
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Why are some kids bossy and demanding? Or bullies? Or why do some kids try to tell us how to take care of them? These kids may have an alpha complex.
Study: Parental Warmth in Childhood Connected to Well-Being in Adulthood
A new study found that parental warmth helps kids flourish in many ways well into adulthood. What is flourishing? What does it mean to be a warm parent?
Tantrums in Big Kids (Ep. 14)
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Big kids (and teens . . . and grown-ups) have tantrums just like toddlers! Big kids are beginning to develop emotional control, so what causes their tantrums and how can we respond to them in a developmentally safe way?
Tears of Futility (Signs of Emotional Health)
In order to mature and flourish, our kids need to face the futilities of life and let go of what they can’t have or what isn’t working.
Helicopter Parenting Follow-Up (Ep. 13)
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This podcast is a follow-up to my last episode, which was about helicopter parenting and why it might be harmful to kids. In this show I consider a new book that argues that helicopter parents are rational in the choices they make. Did I get it wrong in the last show?
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