Parenting Made Practical Podcast

Parents are always being drawn into playing referee when kids are not getting along. Learn how to stop refereeing and get your kids to arbitrate their own behaviors and differences.

It's one thing to have kids; it's another to enjoy them, especially when you get frustrated with them. Learn to celebrate each child's uniqueness.

How to stand your ground with your kids when they want something or want to do something you believe they are not ready to handle.

Neighbors and other kids and adults can negatively challenge how you are raising your kids. Get a plan to insulate your kids without isolating them from their friends and adults in their lives.

Kids challenge parent's authority in many sneaky ways that parents often don't catch. Learn these ways and how to deal with them.

Do you get frustrated when your kids say they can't do something that you know they can? Move your kids from the I can't or I won't mindset to I can.

Parents want fun, peace and joy in their family, but it often gets lost in the conflict of parenting. Learn how to reset your family and bring them into unity with one another.

It's not uncommon for a parent to get so exasperated they are 'done' being a parent. Learn how can you avoid getting to this point in your parenting.

Parents scratch their heads and ask "What is my child doing?" when they do the opposite of what they were told or taught to do. Learn why they do that and practical tips to change this.

Parents scratch their heads and ask "What is my child doing?" when they do the opposite of what they were told or taught to do. Learn why they do that and practical tips to change this.

Kids are barraged with moral corruption and influences working to compromise the foundation you are building in them. Get GPS coordinates to help guide them and keep them on track.

Kids are barraged with moral corruption and influences working to compromise the foundation you are building in them. Get GPS coordinates to help guide them and keep them on track.

Glimpse into Joey & Carla's parenting in a Q&A with their daughter Amy. Hear her reflect on how she was raised, and how she is applying that teaching in raising her own child.

Glimpse into Joey & Carla's parenting in a Q&A with their daughter Amy. Hear her reflect on how she was raised, and how she is applying that teaching in raising her own child. Want to learn more about what was talked about in this episode? Check out the following Mom's Notes Presentations: Fighting the Consistency Battle A Family Forum with the Link Family

Kids turn parents into pretzels through negotiation. Learn to take your power back by refusing to give in to their constant negotiations that change your family standards.

There are 3 ingredients every child needs to be successful in life. How are your kids developing in them?

Parents need to test their kids just as kids get tested in school. Learn how and when to test your kids in their character so they choose to do right over wrong."

All Kids are tempted to cheat, in more ways than just their school work. Learn what parents can do with kids who cheat and how to train them not to.

Kids do the same wrong behaviors over and over. But WHY? Discover how parents can help their kids choose right over their wrong desires.

Kindness can be abstract to kids, but if they don't learn to be kind, kids become self-centered, arrogant, and selfish.

Kids can lash out with very hurtful words. But learn why and where this attitude comes from and how to curb this hateful speech and attitude in your kids.

Every parent has to deal with this question. Get some helpful practical coaching to help think this through with and for your kids.

How do you parent when you are shopping or at a friend's house? And, how do you leave your kids with someone else especially an older sibling when they are of age?

Yelling, threatening and reminding kids may feel good, but really does nothing. Learn 5 key things to train kids to become responsible so you don't get frustrated and need to yell, threaten and remind them.

There are so many things parents feel and want to teach their kids. Here you will get 5 foundational teachings that can impact everything you need and want your kids to learn.