if you look at your little kids and can’t imagine how they could possibly become functioning – never mind happy or successful – adults.
Dad and author Jonathan Greene shares wisdom, and great stories, with us today!
Our conversation is all about how Jonathan went from being a latchkey kid – who was routinely mugged, and didn’t let it bother him – to a hovering father of young children.
Today he’s a dad of teens who’s formed really great bonds with his son and daughter, and shares today about the choices he made that helped develop those bonds.
Go to weturnedoutokay.com/243 for this week’s YouTube video about what to do when your child is sneaking candy and treats that they know are off limits, for the podcast back catalog and all the great links that come up in today’s episode.
And thanks for listening!
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Did you ever wish that you could find just the right book to help your child understand some large issue that you’re just not sure how to talk about?
Then today’s episode is for you – my guest Ashia Ray runs booksforlittles.com, a website dedicated to helping parents find great books, on every subject.
Listen to find out:
– How to use books to make your parenting life easier and better
– When a book is “age-appropriate”
– Why boring books are dangerous
Read about Ashia’s two most important takeaways, and find links to lots of books and other resources at weturnedoutokay.com/218!
3 Secrets of Happy Parenting:
If you’re dreading, rather than enjoying, the time you spend with your young child, take my free online 3 Secrets of Happy Parenting Course.
You’ll learn:
– How to change your child’s behavior from bad to good… FAST
– The opportunities technology and screen time offer to change your family dynamic
– What One Quality ALL Happy Parents Share
Good literature for children – and there’s a lot of it fortunately – can help you accomplish two key things:
1) These books make it easier to talk about hard topics
2) These books make it possible to reclaim your time
Key Links
Click here for episode 194, my conversation with Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times best-selling author of (among other things) The Almost Sisters, my favorite book of 2017.
Click here for episode 191, my conversation with my son Jason in which we discuss helping kids cope with fears – and he accuses me of being Pollyanna-ish (I’ll let you decide for yourself if he is right : )
Click here for Amy Herman’s wonderful book Visual Intelligence… I really want to have Amy on the show. This book comes up a lot on We Turned Out Okay.
Click here for Brad Meltzer’s book series, Ordinary People Change The World
Important WTOO Links
If you need practical advice to deal with your child’s bad behavior, check out my book.
It’s called Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics, and I wrote it especially to help parents handle kids’ tough behavior, because parents need to eliminate the bad before they can be happy at home.
It’s available in Amazon, but since you’re here – since you took the time to come visit weturnedoutokay.com – I want to give you a better deal than Amazon. Click here for details on Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics!
If you’re seeing aggressive behavior, or sadness, or passivity in your child, the Ninja Parenting Community helps.
It’s where I help parents just like you figure out how to handle all the tough stuff our kids throw at us.
Click here to learn more about the community!
Join the private WTOO Facebook group… Click here!
Click here to check out We Turned Out Okay’s How-to Videos, to learn about how to help your kids eat more fruits and vegetables, how to help them learn to read, and more!
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So, I got totally sick with bronchitis! I am thankfully on the mend, but I haven’t had a voice suitable for radio at all… Which means I’m extra-happy to bring you this great conversation, a listener favorite from 2017.
Early childhood education professors Lisa Daly and Miriam Beloglovsky are in the midst of writing a series of books called Loose Parts, extremely practical books about structuring a kid’s environment to eliminate lots of problems, including temper tantrums!
But, I bet that’s not how they would describe it… Because while we are eliminating the problems, we are fostering really cool stuff in our children – and THAT is what Loose Parts is really about.
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Ermagerrrd, Episode 200!!
It is fitting that this particular episode is with a guest who specializes in helping families tell stories – really, in helping people preserve their family legacies.
Nicola Davison, mom
, biographer, and journalist, has hit upon an idea that really resonated with me, so I know it will resonate with you: engaging our parents and grandparents to tell their stories, and to get your kids involved for a multigenerational understanding of where we come from, and how we got here.
Speaking of “how we got here,” I couldn’t let episode 200 go by without talking about how WE got HERE.
And in talking about THAT, we can’t help but discuss how to get where we want to go, and how to help our kids do the same.
Thank you for sticking with me for 200 episodes! It’s an honor to be in your ears, and even more so when you tell a friend about the show, or go to my contact page to share a story or question.
if you look at your little kids and can’t imagine how they could possibly become functioning – never mind happy or successful – adults.
