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by Emily K. Gaudreau: Writer, Sp
How to Raise a Maverick is a daily parenting podcast that supports and inspires the movement to parent kids that know how to work, have grit, show empathy. Emily Gaudreau interviews the top independent thinkers, entrepreneurial parents, and family experts. How to Raise a Maverick is for anyone with kids in their life that wants to see them grow into happy, resilient people that work their butts off and do the right thing. This Podcast was created for YOU, if you’re co-parenting, a single parent, a foster parent, a mom, dad, grandparent, teacher, counselor or youth pastor. If you’re looking for simple actionable advice for really difficult situations while you drive, work-out or take a break Emily will have it for you. Each episode gives you unique tools and resources that will no doubt change the way you engage with your kids. Listening to How to Raise a Maverick will prepare you for ANYTHING kids can throw at you. Parenting is a crazy job don’t do it without the experts.
Episodes
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189 Momo mixdown
189 Momo mixdown
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188: Motivate Kids, In School, Business and at Home, Parenting the new Generation
How the heck are we going to get these kids to hold their own "out there"?!? Before you think all is lost listen to what Mark C. Perna has to say about all of this! Not only has he written a best selling book 'Answering Why: Unleashing Passion, Purpose, and Performance in Younger Generations but…
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187: Should Parents Share Kids Images Online?
Parents LOVE to share photos of their kids. Kids are cute, funny and the grandparents want to see their every move. But is there a price to pay for letting the world have access to our kid's images...(and if you share them on any social media site you are sharing them with the world). YES! Here…
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186: Project Me: Find a Happier Balance with Kelly Pietrangeli
Ever wish your life was ...better? That a magic wand could be waved and the quality of your life goes up. I don't have a magic wand... but I do have an amazing woman that has the next closest thing. 'Project Me for Busy Mothers: A Practical Guide for Finding a Happier Balance' is Kelly…
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185: Different Kids, Positive Solutions with Elaine Halligan
Have you ever felt that your child was different and feel desperate for help? 'My Child's Different' by Elaine Halligan is an absolute must-read for any parent that has a child that is ..well "different." Today Elaine gave us a handful of simple ways we as parents can change our OWN behaviors to...
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185: Different Kids, Positive Solutions with Elaine Halligan
Have you ever felt that your child was different and feel desperate for help? 'My Child's Different' by Elaine Halligan is an absolute must-read for any parent that has a child that is ..well "different." Today Elaine gave us a handful of simple ways we as parents can change our OWN behaviors to...
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184: Secondary-Trauma Self-Care
Trauma-informed care is the latest and greatest in child care and parenting. But what about the parents. What does self-care look like for us? https://howtoraiseamaverick.com
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183: Lies, love, gifts, and kids 3 parenting tips for the holidays
How to turn the volume down on Christmas. How to talk to kids about Santa and teaching unconditional love!
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182: The Philosophical Child: Kids Are 100% Smarter Than Parents Think
What does LSD have to do with understanding child development... apparently everything.
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181: Weed, Parenting kids that don't smoke
What to say to kids about weed now that it is legally in some states? I'll be sharing our family's life-altering experience in regard to weed that is not to be missed!
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180: Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Protect Young Minds w Kristen Jenson
The author of Good Pictures Bad Pictures, Kristen Jenson shares with us the 2nd edition of her wonderful book. This book is loved in our home and I highly recommend it to anyone who has kids and understands the dangers of porn and protecting young minds.
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Yelling Vagina at Thanksgiving, Parents and Kids Co-showering?
Yelling Vagina at Thanksgiving, Parents and Kids Co-showering?
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178: Positive Discipline Parenting: Teens, Motivation and Keeping ur Cool
4 ways to get those teens to do what they need to!
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177: Body Safety: Sexual Abuse Prevention: Raising Kids That Can Protect Themselves
Do you talk to your kids about their body safety rules? Today I completely cover what a quick conversation the car could sound like. Trust me this odd conversation is literally the difference between your child being a victim of abuse or not.
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176: Bare Minimum Parenting: James Breakwell : Not Quite Ruining Your Kids
Comedy writer James Breakwell is dropping truth bombs and telling parents to chill the heck out! His sometimes controversial views on parenting are a breath of fresh air in a world overrun with "perfect parent pressure".
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175: Kids, Halloween, Parents Dilemma: Parenting in the Dark
Why Is Halloween so Horrible These Days? It seems like Halloween gets more and more disgusting with every passing year? Is it just me? Or is it that way in your neighborhood too? Research shows that when kids dress up as their favorite superhero they perform way better on tests. So what happens...
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174: Neuro-feedback: Trauma Treatment: Rachel Ragsdale
Rachel Ragsdale of Neuroptimize sheds light on how near-feedback can be used as a drug-free solution to psychological issues that are otherwise untreatable.
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173: Intentionally Parenting w/ Chris Bruno
Intention parenting is not easy. So, inspired By Chris Bruno and his spreadsheet I decided to create a simpler version, a worksheet for planning your intentional parenting year.
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172: Sleep Schedules, Sex and More Sex
Divorce rates are down, How to get your kids to sleep in their own beds. Why you need to be having great sex NOW.
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171: Bert and Ernie, Lemon Aid Stands and Transgender Kids
I Will Never Drink Lemon-aid From Kids Stands and Here's Why Here in Denver kids are now allowed to have lemon-aid stands. I am such a sucker for kids that are selling anything. I will buy what-ever they are selling but I will NEVER drink that stuff. Kids are DIRTY! God only knows how many…
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170: Parenting is Harder Than Ever
Wear your underwear! What is a Maverick? How not to be an octopus parent.
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169: Street Smarts: 3 Universal Laws of Survival
The Gut, The Eyes and the Plan By the age of 25, I had worked lived and traveled all over the world. Most of the places I ended up were also on the list of countries American should stay away from due to political unrest. I was often alone and not once was I hurt. Why? Well in this episode I will...
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168: Allowance and Kids with John Lanza
One of the very more important skills you can teach your kids is money management. In the U.S parents give 41 billion dollars but only 53% of the parents are giving any allowance at all. John Lanza is expert of how, when and why we should be using allowance to get our kids ready for the real…
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167: Sex Positive Parenting, Raising Children of the Light
What Does Sex Positive Parenting Mean?The practical side of sex-positive parenting means that you ...Start from a very early age talking about the sexual anatomy (including the external female anatomy) using the correct medical names. Being very matter of fact and relaxed when the kids have...
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166: Kids that Mouth Off, Positive Discipline
How do you get those sassy kids to stop mouthing off? There are 4 reasons kids will talk back and you must sort out which of the four they are in order really nip that sassiness in the bud.
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165: Bonus Back To School Episode
2 great things!! Kids are heading back to school AND if you are going to be in Colorado August 18th and 19th we are doing a crazy fun Mini- Maverick Photoshoot. You get amazing portraits of your kids taken by "yours truly" and All the money goes to educating single moms on how to keep three kids...
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164: Book Review of Ellen Gendelmen's, 'When Ice Cream is Not Enough'.
Ellen Gendelman's book 'When Ice Cream is Not Enough' does NOT try to convert you to some crazy way of parenting. It does not try to convince you that our future generation is ruined because of your bad parenting skills. It actually does not tell you what to think at all! Refreshing right! Ellen...
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162: LT. Col. Dave Grossman, Medical Influence on Crime Stats, Sleep Deprivation & the Myth of Killers
The Truth Behind Video Games The United States is the only industrialized country that does not have regulations on the sale of violent video games to minors. How has this fact affected the homicide in the United States? Well, you might have guessed... it's not good!. LT. Col. Dave Gross, U.S.…
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161: Girls Leadership, Kim O'Malley
Kim O'Malley is the powerhouse here in Colorado running and spreading the word of the Girls Leadership Programs. She lets us in on the amazing work these women are doing across the country to help girls and their caregivers refine their EQ (emotional quotient).
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160: Narcissistic Kids and Adults
How do you deal with Narcissistic behavior in kids? Or perhaps your partner or what if you are are the one with narcissistic tendencies. Dr. Ramani walks us through what to do and not to do when you one of these tricky personalities in your life. Https://howtoraiseamaverick.com/donate...
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159: Lazy Moms Manifesto
10 ways to do less so your kids can be more.
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158: 4 Myths About Sexual Abuse
Myth #1: Telling kids how they were "made" is a good way to explain the 'Birds and the Bee's'. Myth #2: "We use anatomically correct names for private parts..." Myth #3 - I'm fine; I have heard everything I need to know from friends who have taken body safety courses. Myth #4 - It's too early…
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157: 4 Myths About Sexual Abuse
Myth #1: Telling kids how they were "made" is a good way to explain the 'Birds and the Bee's'. Myth #2: "We use anatomically correct names for private parts..." Myth #3 - I'm fine; I have heard everything I need to know from friends who have taken body safety courses. Myth #4 - It's too early…
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157: Discipline Tools: Positive Time Out for Kids and Parents
From Hot Head Mom to Calm, Cool and Collected For many many moons, I have had my skinny little toolbox of trick that I can pull out when kids decide to push ALL my buttons. BUT things have changed and I now have the ability to withstand the creative wrath my offspring can throw at me. What…
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156: Part 2 Medication for Mental Disorders, Natural Consequences, Pros, and Cons
Part 2: How to get tested to see if you will become violent or suicidal before taking medication that could cause involuntary intoxication. Then we talk about discipline and natural consequences. The pros and cons.
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155: Psychoactive Medication: What Parents Need to Know
Is Anyone in Your Family on Antidepressants or Other Psychoactive Medications? -Before we dive into this I want to let you know that you can be tested to find out if you are susceptible to these side effects.- Selma Eikelenboom-Schieveld is M.D and a medical forensic expert who is examining the...
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154: Changing Youth Sports w/ John O'Sullivan, Kids, Coaches and Parents
When Did Youth Sports Stop Being Fun? Screaming parents, crying kids, and frazzled coaches. You don't have to look far to find parents that take their kid's soccer/ baseball/football game WAY to serious. John O'Sullivan the author of Changing the Game and founder of Changing the Game Project…
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153: Neuro-linguistic-Programing, Parenting Kids that Don't Shoot up Schools
Help keep HowToRaiseaMaverick going. https://howtoraiseamaverick.com/donate My gosh! Yet another school shooting! This week I explore the idea that what we are dealing with is partly the Werther Effect. Which is the backstory that explains copycat suicides and mass shootings like what we just saw...
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152: Respecting Authority: Parenting Kids to Navigate Coaches, Teachers, and Bosses
The topic of authority and kids is a fascinating one for me. On one hand, we would love for our kids to respect us, but we don't really want them to be part of a mindless herd following an authority figure. This week is about how to navigate this tricky subject and teach our kids to wisely and...
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151: Getting Kids To Cooperate : Positive Discipline Parenting
https://howtoraiseamaverick.com/donate Anyone else have a kiddo that is a scrapper? I do. Not that she gets into fistfights, but she loves to get me all riled up. When she sees that I'm angry she gets a little sh** eating grin. Some kids are a struggle because they want attention, some it's a…
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150: Positive Discipline Parenting: Getting Kids to Listen to Their Parents
Donate Getting your kids to do what you ask without bribing or punishing!?!? Can it be done? Well, I'm going to give it my best shot. I will be applying the Positive Discipline system in my house and keeping you up to date with my experience. But first, let's explore the history of the theory and...
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149: Puppies, TED Talks and Grit
There are some funny similarities in train a puppy and raising a kid. Are we overcompensating for our girls? are the boys being left in the dust? What can we do today to give our kids "true grit"? No, I'm not talking about the movie! Https://howtoraiseamaverick.com/donate
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148: Nature Knows Best: Teaching Ethics, Empathy and Grit Through Nature
The #1 Things Parents Need to Do in Order To Raise Grounded Kids... The more parenting advice we read and listen to the more confusing it can be. After years of raising kids and studying the research about each generation, I have come to a conclusion. If you want your kids to have a work ethic,...
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147: Curing Phobias and Shyness
Researchers have found some amazing way to influence people with the use of film and movies. Curing them of their fears and shyness is just a small sample. So many parents are afraid to talk about porn with their kids... are you?
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146: Blac Chyna, Preschool Sex-Ed and Coat Nazis
Celebrities are Not Our Pets. What would you do if someone grabbed your baby's arm? In the news today Blac Chyna got into a fight over someone grabbing her baby, as a result, she lost sponsorship because of the altercation. In my opinion, no mother should ever be condemned for protecting their...
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145: Free-Range Parenting Decriminalized in Utah
Google was supporting the sale of children for sex.. But they no longer will be protected by the CDA ( Communications Decency Act). For the past ten year victims of human trafficking were unable to hold platform like Craigslist.com or Backpage.com responsible for damage from them promoting and...
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144: Speaking Event, Tormenting Seals
https://harborchurch.life/madness to buy tickets to the Madness of Motherhood event! In this episode ... As we enter into different environments are we fully aware of how our actions will affect those around us? Are we teaching our kids the same kind of respect for not only other people but…
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143: Rivers, Trees, Birds and Bee's: teaching online etiquette in a forest
How do we teach our youngest kids about the dangers of the modern world in an age-appropriate way? In this episode, I explain some easy ways to start planting seeds about protecting our minds, understand predators and body responses. All while out in nature. As promised here is the link to the...
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142: Christian Son Is Gay, Giving High, Investing with Fear
What to do if you are a Christian and your kids comes out to you. How to unclog your energy drain and let money, emotions, and love flow to you. What if the stock market crashes and I lose all my money? All these questions answered and more.
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141: Wake Up You Need To Make Money
We need to be honest with ourselves and our kids about money. Without it we have no freedom and limited power to do great things that can better other's lives. Wake Up You Need To Make Money!
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How to Raise a Maverick is a daily parenting podcast that supports and inspires the movement to parent kids that know how to work, have grit, show empathy. Emily Gaudreau interviews the top independent thinkers, entrepreneurial parents, and family experts. How to Raise a Maverick is for anyone with kids in their life that wants to see them grow into happy, resilient people that work their butts off and do the right thing. This Podcast was created for YOU, if you’re co-parenting, a single parent, a foster parent, a mom, dad, grandparent, teacher, counselor or youth pastor. If you’re looking for simple actionable advice for really difficult situations while you drive, work-out or take a break Emily will have it for you. Each episode gives you unique tools and resources that will no doubt change the way you engage with your kids. Listening to How to Raise a Maverick will prepare you for ANYTHING kids can throw at you. Parenting is a crazy job don’t do it without the experts.
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Emily K. Gaudreau: Writer, Sp
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