Podcast Episodes
People get emotional. It’s part of life. How do you handle your emotions and are you a great role model for your kids? How do you respond when your children get emotional? We answer these questions and more in or conversation with Dr. Marc Brackett from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. He shares amazing…
Andrew Haddad says he has the perfect family. Not because they don’t face challenges, but because they do. After their daughter Charlie was born they had hopes to have another child. Like many families, they struggled with becoming pregnant. That struggle took them on an adventure that changed their lives and the life of a…
We talk A LOT about kids and screens. What about us? Is your “screen time” style, “do as I say, not as I do?” If we’d like to raise children to have a healthy relationship with screens, we must have one. We continue our conversation with Anya Kamenetz on her book The Art of Screen Time, this…
Mike and Katie Richardson had it all planned out. They got married, got their lives started and were ready to start a family. That’s when it didn’t go as planned. Like millions of American families, they struggled with pregnancy and that’s when they decided to take another route. That route changed their lives and the…
It’s one of the biggest debates in American homes… screen time. Are they on their devices too much? What are they watching? Are their brains going to mush? And on and and on and on. There are a lot of rumors, myths and fears about screens and kids. This week we attempt to get through…
“There is no cure. It is fatal.” That’s what doctors told Joel and Andrea Clausen last November. Words no parent wants to hear. The doctor was talking about their youngest son Bryce. He was diagnosed with Krabbe disease – an extremely rare condition that affects the brain and nervous system. Doctors told them Bryce had…
It happens to all of us, we have a great idea or set a big goal and then get stopped somewhere along the journey. Why does it happen and what can we do to actually get it done? This week we talk with Charlie Gilkey about his new book Start Finishing where he looks at how…
David and Toni Zarghami are the parents of two young kids and they, like all of us, want their kids to grow up in to successful people. That’s why they are intentional about helping their son and daughter think with a growth mindset – seeing opportunity in everything and focused on using words and language…
Did you know that babies as young as six-months old notice differences in skin color? We did a podcast on that study earlier in the year and that lead us to this week’s conversation. Knowing that kids may show a preference to those who look like them, how do we introduce our kids to people…
Dustin and Stacy Grove have three kids under the age of 11 and they lead busy lives. Both work very fluid schedules and still manage to get it done. Dustin says it’s important to him that he spend quality time with each of his kids. We talked with him about how he does it and…