Not found a preschool yet or looking for something more than the ABCs? Wan
t your child to be emotionally ready for school? Nationally acclaimed author Linda Eyre discusses how to teach children joy using the Joy School program. Both Stacey and Nancy have had children in Joy School and found it to be an amazing experience. Learn why!
AND–We were nominated for the Best of Salt Lake 2010 as the Best Resource for info for Moms! Whooo Hooo!
For more information on Joy School, go to JoySchools.com and for more on Values Parenting programs, go to ValuesParenting.com.
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by admin on September 3, 2010
As a parent, it is often a challenge to know if a movie, website, book, song, or app is appropriate for our children at their specific age. And how do we talk to them about things like Facebook? We discuss what we find useful to help us choose for our children. One resource we discuss is Common Sense Media. Others include Squeaky Clean Reads and Good Reads if you have friends you trust who have posted books in their list.
You can also check our list of summer reads for Boys Only! http://www.themompodcast.com/2010/06/27/summer-reading-fun/
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by admin on August 21, 2010
Those dreaded summer words–We discuss how to deal with them and ideas to get rid of the boredom blues (yours and your child’s).
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by admin on July 11, 2010
Boys sometimes have a harder time getting interested in books. One way to solve that is to start a book club for boys only. Laura Blum, mother of 4 and reading advocate, discusses how she turned her reluctant readers into great readers and how you can too!
Check out her site and some great ideas at http://bookclub4boysinfo.blogspot.com/2008/12/start-book-club-for-your-boy.html
UPDATE: Nancy’s son and his friends met for the first Boys Only Book Club and about 50% of the kids showed up, but they had fun and Barnes and Noble was very accommodating to help them choose books. They chose Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. They will be meeting every 3 weeks over the summer to get them interested in reading. They also joined the Barnes and Noble reading plan, the Borders reading plan and a local library reading plan that all give freebies to kids who read.
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Claire Lerner, director of parent resources at Zero to Three and psychotherapist, discusses the struggles and joys of being a single mother. She shares tips on how to make single motherhood enjoyable and successful.
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by admin on June 19, 2010
Alyson Schafer, psychotherapist and parenting expert, discusses the Good Mom Myth and how we can break it and learn what we really need to do as moms.
Alyson is author of Breaking the Good Mom Myth and Honey I Wrecked the Kids as well as the host of a popular parenting show in Canada. Check out her site at http://www.alyson.ca/
We found very good advice in Breaking the Good Mom Myth and recommend this book to mothers! You can find her on Facebook and Twitter too!
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What if your partner’s parenting style differs from you? Should you intervene or not? Maggie Stevens, author of Parent Fix,mom of 5, shares her down-to-earth parenting tips with us. We talk specifically about what to do if parents differ in how clean a child needs to keep his room.
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Amy Webb, mother and creator of The Thoughtful Parent, discusses Attachment Parenting. Amy has a PhD in Human Development and Family Sciences and loves to be a translator for parents in sharing research-based parenting information with those of us without PhDs!
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