Parenting Doctors Podcast

Failure Reflection Exercise

Have you ever taken the time to reflect on your failures?  Have you ever taken the time to go down the road of your life and identify failures at different times in your life.  

I know, in my life, I have failed often.  I failed during an important spelling contest when I was young.  I failed trying out for my eighth grade baseball team.  My dream of playing college basketball was crushed with two failures.  I failed in two personal relationships in college.  I failed at different aspects of my career.  I laugh talking to colleagues about a study I worked on for two years and received rejections from four different journals with the fourth journal editor writing me that this "paper has nothing to offer to the field."  That my friends, is a beautiful failure.  If you are going to fail, go down like that my friends!   

More recently, I have experienced significant personal failure.  I have realized that as I long as I breathe, the failures will continue to come.  In this social media obsessed digital world where it's all about putting our best foot forward, this exercise will cleanse you from the personal marketing gunk that can stick on you.  Let's get real!  We all fail.  One of the best gifts we can give our children is an honest reflection on our failures and an explanation of how we didn't let that stop us from getting back up and moving forward.    

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Is Parenting a Happy Endeavor?

Are parents more happy?  Put another way, is parenting a happy endeavor?  Certainly, parents experience less pleasurable moments.  Parents are inconvenienced more.  

But parents experience more meaning.  Check out this week's parenting podcast on happiness and parenting. 

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Interview with Eating Disorders Expert Patricia Price

On this week's parenting doctors show, our parenting doctors podcast is an interview with Dr. Patricia Price.  She is an expert on eating disorders.  She provides some of the keys that parents can be aware of related to disordered eating, treatment, family changes, and nutrition.  Dr. Price is a Parenting Doctor and renown for the treatment of eating disorders.  She is author of No More Screen Time.  Check out this book at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/More-Screen-Time-Patti-Price/dp/1504918606

For More information on Dr. Price, treatment in Minnesota on eating disorders, or for follow up questions, she can be reached at www.drpatriciaprice.com 

A huge thank you to Dr. Price for joining us on today's show.  

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What Is Your Parenting Style?

Today's parenting podcast is more of a reflection podcast.  What is your parenting style?  It is helpful to take a step back, push pause, and take perspective on our type of parenting.  What is your parenting style?  

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Divorced Parenting: To Hurt or to be Vulnerable (Express preference)

During and after divorces, secure parents don’t take anything personally.  Kids are allowed to express their preferences.  Parents validate feelings, encourage expressions, and provide a two-step process to help kids navigate the difficult changes. 

• What is your motivation?
• Are you trying to hurt or are you trying to be vulnerable? Or in other words, are you trying to hurt or are you trying to express your preference?

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Overcoming, Overlooking, & Defeating Negativity Thrown at You

Have you ever dealt with tremendous negativity?  Have you ever been cursed with the most vile hate and nastiness?  Have you been told how toxic you are and repeatedly had negativity and nasty statements said about you over and over and over again?  

Friends, this is the kind of the thing that young people will face via cyberbullying, nastiness at school, or the junk at home.  We need to prepare young people not only for the emotions (grief, sadness) but for the messages.  We can help them overcome, overlook, and defeat so that they can stand on their firm foundation without wavering from who they are. 

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Token Economy: Personal Responsibility, Affection, & Interests

Families establish token economies with reward charts, star charts, and a system of rewarding desired behaviors.  These reward systems can provide structure and consistency.  Some issues to consider at home life include the value of encouraging personal responsibility (i.e. rewarding all work takes away from the value of being a family contributor), the problem of using affection as a reward, and the problem of undermining intrinsic motivation when parents reward interests.

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Time to Comfort, Time to Instruct, Time to Correct

There is a time to comfort.  There is a time to Instruct.  There is a time to Correct.  The distinctions are important for healthy parenting, on this week's parenting podcast.  

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Family Conversations at Summer Dinners

Welcome to the Summer!  It's summertime!

Successful families average a minimum of FOUR family dinners per week during the summer.  

Instead of, "How was the day?" "Fine."  

Let's engage in meaningful dialogue.  3 P's: Positive parents prepare!  

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What Are The Stressors Young People Face Nowadays?

Kids, preteens, and teens face all kinds of stressors nowadays.  Safety from violence, getting enough to eat, single parent households, domestic violence and so many others are some of the real stressors American children face.  

Then there are those stressors that have changed over the last 10 years.  Trends show that stressors have taken on an entirely new look that previous generations never faced.  This podcast highlights major stressors that are new to this generation and we identify key tools that families need to equip their young people with in order to adequately cope with today's stressors.  

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