Raising teenagers and parenting twenty-somethings has many challenges, not the least of which is family friction. During these years when our kids are discovering themselves, pushing boundaries, and learning independence, parents can feel frustrated. The clashing of ideas and personalities is normal but it can also damage your relationship with your child. Join Mighty Parenting podcast hosts Judy [...]
Does your child procrastinate? Probably. Everyone does it sometimes but some kids do it all the time. This is a frustrating issue for many families and it can be a cause of discord, possibly on a daily basis. This can leave us wondering why our kids procrastinate so much or how to get them moving. But what’s the real problem here? How can we help our kids? Should we help our kids? And what about[...]
According to Forbes magazine, more than 40% of us make New Year’s resolutions but only 8% of us keep them. Why do New Year's resolutions work for so few people, and why do they fail for others? Judy Davis and Sandy Fowler bring their own, unique viewpoint to New Year’s resolutions. They will discuss when to make them and when to simply ignore them. On this week’s Mighty Parenting podcast, [...]
It’s been over 10 months since the Mighty Parenting podcast launched. That’s 48 shows, 39 guests, and innumerable aha moments. All of this is worth a second look so Judy Davis and Sandy Fowler are sharing their reflections on parenting. They’re taking a look at what they’ve learned over the last 10 months and how it’s impacted their parenting and their lives. They’ve had many surprises[...]
As our kids grow up, they’ll need to handle more situations, meet more challenges, and achieve more goals. This means they need to learn how to find and access the resources available to them. But how do they learn this skill? What is available? Mighty Parenting podcast hosts, Judy Davis and Sandy Fowler, talk to education experts Natalie Borrell and Alison Grant about how to empower your [...]
Parents are tired and looking for a cure for exhaustion. It’s ironic because we thought we were done being tired once our children weren’t babies. The truth is that the teen and college years can challenge us just as much as the newborn days did. More, the exhaustion we feel now goes beyond a physical tired, reaching deeper inside. Rest expert, Karen Brody, has an eye-opening discussion with [...]
As parents, we draw on our own experiences and upbringing to make decisions about parenting our teens and twentysomethings. But teens and dating have changed and we need to understand what’s happening now and how we can best prepare and support our kids as they learn to navigate the turbulent waters of dating, relationships, and sex. Relationship, intimacy and sex expert, Mary Jo Rapini, joins [...]
We all want our kids to be financially stable and avoid money failures. We also want to avoid our own retirement fail, but as we spend more and more to support our kids and finance opportunities for them we risk our own financial stability in our golden years. The result? Retirement Fail. So where’s the line? When should we help our kids and where do we draw the lines? What do we need to teach [...]
Self-love can sound like a pie-in-the-sky idea but it turns out this simple concept affects our entire life. A poor relationship with ourselves affects our mental, emotional, and physical state. So where does it start? How do we nurture self-love in our teens? And what about us? How does our own relationship with ourselves affect our lives, our family, and our parenting? Expert Paula Galli shares [...]
We all want to be the best parent we can and it’s easier when we know some of the common parenting pitfalls to avoid. When our kids are small, we have plenty of opportunities to chat with other parents and share our experiences and lessons learned. Unfortunately, as our children become teens and twenty-somethings those opportunities dwindle. Judy Davis and Sandy Fowler chat with Sheryl Gould [...]