Confessions of a Parent Coach
By Ann Kaplan, Parent Coach
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Welcome to Confessions of a Parent Coach, the podcast where you'll learn that even parenting experts like me, Ann Kaplan, mother of four, and your host won't have all the answers. I believe that once you realize there's no such thing as a perfect parent, you can achieve fabulous behavior and amazing relationships with your kids.
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The Universal Lesson Hidden Inside Your Most Difficult Relationships
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Why You Keep Denying Yourself the Thing You Want
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Why Retreats Change Us: The Hidden Cost of Staying "Nearsighted" in Life & Parenting
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May 27, 2026 |
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The Lesson We Never Stop Learning: Why Your Parenting Triggers Are an Inside Job
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May 20, 2026 |
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Why Your Child's Enneagram Childhood Experience Isn't About You
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May 13, 2026 |
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You ARE Hurting Your Kids (And What to Do About It)
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May 06, 2026 |
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Essence vs Personality: Understanding Your True Self vs Your Patterns
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Why You Feel Unmotivated (Through the Lens of the Enneagram Type 2)
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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The Enneagram Isn't Who You Are (And That Changes Everything)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Don't Fence Me In
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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The Enneagram Will Ruin Your Favorite Argument (In the Best Way)
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Feeling Stuck? How to Find Your Zone of Power in Hard Situations
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Impossible Situations: How to Stop Trying to Fix What Can't Be Fixed
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Why Being Present Feels So Hard as a Parent (and How to Return to Yourself)
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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I only have two choices, and both of them are terrible
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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It's Not Their Fault… So Should I Still Discipline?
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Stop Praising Your Kids (And What to Do Instead)
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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The Hidden Cost of Permissive Parenting (Why Discipline Helps Kids Feel Safe)
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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The "Cheerios" Moment: How Generational Trauma Sneaks Into Your Parenting
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Talking Doesn't Teach
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Hurry Hurry! How Rushing Slows Down Progress
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Sleep-Beyond Caretaking
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Is Your Parenting Working?
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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New Year's Eve | Resolution & Intention
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Stillness and Solstice
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Mind Management over Time Management
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Doing the Work vs Talking About the Work
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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The Snowball Effect Inside of You
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Helping Kids Give Thanks
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Connection is King
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Self-Led Parenting
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Is good parenting more about BEING or DOING?
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Practical IFS
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Place Blame or Take Responsibility?
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Your Ego is a Spacesuit
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Work the Enneagram with IFS
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Enneagram Levels of Integration
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Why I Don't Have a lot of 20-Something Clients
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Are YOU Codependent?
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Why Do You Treat Me This Way?
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Being Unskilled
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Kids and Their Bodies
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Parenting with the Enneagram Without Knowing Our Kids' Type
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Deep Emotions - What Are You Actually Feeling?
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Intuitive Parenting
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Are You Throwing Your Kid Into the Deep End of the Pool?
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Internalize, Externalize or Repress?
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Why Am I Talking?
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Giving Kids (and Ourselves) Agency
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Parent Coach Podcast Episode 122 - Your Brain is A Superhighway
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Are you real or fiction?
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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The Only Thing You Need to Know
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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How One Client Helped Her Family
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Do you live in a fantasty?
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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The Party in Your Head
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May 28, 2025 |
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What is "The Work"?
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May 21, 2025 |
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Spring Cleaning
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May 14, 2025 |
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What Blocks Us from Caring for Ourselves
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May 07, 2025 |
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Doubling Down, Leveling Up
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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A New Level of Closeness - The Enneagram in Partnership
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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A Kid Who Knows Their Enneagram Type
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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How do You Relate to Your Child? The Enneagram in Relationships
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Ambitious or Complacent? Aspiration and the Enneagram
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Are you a head, heart or gut type?
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Spiritual Bypassing: How Psychology and Spirituality Need Each Other
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Beyond Personality Tests: The Depth of The Enneagram
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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My Kids' Enneatypes and How I Parent Them Differently
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Leap Before You Look
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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When it's Not Your Kid's Fault
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Flooding
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Growing Pains
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Sibling Drama
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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3 Keys to a Successful Second Semester
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Inhale...Exhale - The Rhythm of Life
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Feelings Aren't Facts - The Self Coaching Model
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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No-Yell January? Dancing with Anger
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Parent Coach Podcast Episode 95 - What if you can't stay calm?
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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The Nine Year Change
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Get Out of Your Head!
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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The Inside of Tweens & Teens
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Kids and Gratitude
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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A New Look at Tech
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Using the Enneagram in Parenting
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Why I Quit Journaling
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Get better answers to "What's Wrong?"
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Listener Mailbag
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Want to know your Enneagram Type?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Middle School Blows (Boob Story)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Boundaries With Choice
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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The Right Behavior for the Wrong Reasons
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Round Pegs in Square Holes (the Enneagram Instincts)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Thumb Sucking and Other Comfort Behaviors
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The Quickest Way to Crappy Parenting
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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What is Authoritative Parenting?
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Sweater Drawer
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Picky Eaters
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Where Does Your Kids' Personality Come From?
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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4 Principles of Good Parenting
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Parenting is a Physical Act
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Internal Family Systems
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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My Key to Smooth Mornings
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Are Your Eyes on the Wrong Prize?
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Sleep Training (And a Parenting Life Lesson)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Getting Kids to Open Up
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Feeling Our Kids' Pain
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Living Small
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Why Not Me?
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May 29, 2024 |
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Take A Walk On The Wild Side
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May 22, 2024 |
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Anatomy of a Meltdown
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May 15, 2024 |
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Kids as Casualties (Innocent Bystanders)
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May 08, 2024 |
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A Parenting Guarantee
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May 01, 2024 |
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Engage with the Emotion, Not the Story
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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How Do You Know You're Doing a Good Job?
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Courageous Parenting
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Losing Your Audience
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Mommy Doesn't Know Best
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Screentime
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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What even IS discipline?
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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When You're Not the Favorite Parent
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Connection Vs. Coercion
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Stop Being So Thirsty
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Parenting With Your Hair On Fire
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Communication Spectrum
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Disrespect is a Story
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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"Yes And" Parenting
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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How Mike And I Parent Together
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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One Dad's Experience Of Fatherhood
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Can We Stop Dumping On Dads?
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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The Enneagram in Parenting
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Before And After
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Half-Baked is ALL We Get
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Is Everyone Judging You?
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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When You Might Get Divorced
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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When Parenting Feels Like Crap
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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It's Not About You
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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If you're not happy, no one's happy
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Hack into Empathy
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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The Potty Training Approach to ALL Discipline
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Living Through Your Child
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Talking About Talking About Sex ;)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Helping Kids With School Drama
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Taking School Beyond Grades
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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BEYOND GRADES ANNOUNCEMENT
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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It's Not Fair!
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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The 2 Hardest Parenting Skills
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Why Consequences?
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Why Boundaries?
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Warnings
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The Wrong Rules the Right Way
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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The One Skill
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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You Suck
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Apologies
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Co-Regulation
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Just Pick One Thing
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Do you really believe in your child?
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Am I Hurting My Kid?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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The Biggest Mistakes In Parenting Teens
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The NON-attachment Needed in Parenting
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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When Stuff Gets Tough
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Turning Rules Upside-down
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May 31, 2023 |
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The Key to Calm - Your Nervous System
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May 24, 2023 |
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Are you the boss, or just bossy?
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May 17, 2023 |
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Consistency - It's Not What You Think
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Hard Way is the Only Way
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May 03, 2023 |
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Pick Your Battles
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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School Is Her Job
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Knee-jerk Parenting: Stop Panicked Parenting
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Pants on Fire: The Whys and Hows of Kids' Lies
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Let's Talk About Boundaries
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Your MIL Has No Sway
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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3 of My Favorite Things to Say to Kids
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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I Love My Kids But....
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Mar 16, 2023 |