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Reaching Roots For Parents
by WishSlate
“Reaching Roots” is a podcast for parents that provides ideas and insights to improve the lives of your children and family. On this show, we talk to parenting experts, leaders, and people who inspire us through solutions and education to help you and your children learn and grow. Reaching Roots is a metaphor for continuing to grow and reach further.
Episodes
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Importance of Connecting Kids to Our Family History
In a time where we currently save every memory and picture online, what’s often missing is the voice of our grandparents and great-grandparents. Stories that helped younger generations understand where they come from and gave them tools for the future have been lost to live-streaming and comment...
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Empower Kids to be Creative Without Screens
In today’s world full of screens, parents have to work hard to set boundaries and to enforce them. Screens are everywhere and most times, children binge on video games, Netflix, or YouTube or some form of social media. These technologies also forcing our kids into more mature content sooner…
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Teaching Kids About Sex and Their Bodies
Most Parents feel awkward or unprepared to have a conversation about sex and relationships with their children. Mandi says "What you think you should be telling your kids about sex, is not what you should tell them." Research tells us that kids and teens who have regular conversations with their...
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Figure out Your Child's Unique Strength
Many parents fail to recognize that their kids have different ways. Gail Swift recognized this with her young children - that they work in a different way than she does. She describes these differences as “I thrive on having a lot of things going on at once and work best under pressure. I...
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Safely Talk to Children About Weight
With the pandemic, so many kids have gained weight or developed unhealthy eating habits...along with too much screen time and perhaps a decrease in their sports or daily exercise. Lori Fishman says “At this point, we all need an immunity-booster”. Lori is a child and adolescent psychologist, a...
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Lost Art of Conversation in a Digital World
Children growing up today are alarmingly consumed by technology, at a detriment to their social upbringing. Talking and listening to children fosters bonds, encourages listening and helps develop stronger relationships. Conversation helps kids express themselves, resolve conflicts, ask for help,...
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What is Your Kids Math Age?
Did you know that Preschool math scores predict 5th grade performance, and 8th grade math scores predict high school drop-out rates? Most high paying jobs, from software development to engineering, from data analysis to architecture – all need math, yet only 25% of high school students are…
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Inspiring Young Girls to be Entrepreneurs
Not every girl wants to be a princess. Some want to run the castle. Design the moat. Or break the glass slipper and open a company with better footwear. The Startup Squad empowers girls with an entrepreneurial mindset so they can realize their potential, whatever their passions. It is about…
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Raising 13 children. Yes 13!
Joy and her husband Rod made it their life's mission in adopting harder-to-place children. With three biological sons, they adopted ten abandoned and abused babies and toddlers of various ethnic backgrounds from two weeks to four years old. Joy VanDertuin is the author of a children's book,...
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Math for Girls
Math is a critical skill for children to make sense of the world around them. It starts early with play, observing patterns and shapes, looking at and counting objects. Math then becomes an important component of education and a requirement, if a student is to have any success in STEM , which...
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Living After Unthinkable Grief
Michele Benyo is a mom of two, a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, early childhood parent coach, and the founder of Good Grief Parenting. After her 6-year-old son died of cancer, her 3-year-old daughter's heartbreaking statement – "Mommy, half of is gone" – defined Michele’s life purpose....
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Prepare Your Child for Kindergarten
When your young child reaches school age, there is anxiety for both parents and children to start kids in school. For parents - doubt of whether their child is ready for school, are they going to be ok, how will the kids survive without us? For kids, they might even be a little scared – new...
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A Life Process to Raise Successful Citizens
Is there a way to backward design a process to raise successful kids from birth onwards? This is the question that Nate Turner helps answer in this episode. Society’s chief responsibility is to raise children who will become the best possible citizens of the world and who will maximize their...
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Send Your Kids to Their Dream College, Debt-Free
Student debt has just reached an all-time high amounting to $1.4 trillion dollars! Kids are getting out of college with tens of thousands of dollars in debt that they can’t pay off while supporting themselves. Many have had to move back in with their parents to make ends meet. Shellee Howard is…
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Homeschool Hacks from a Mother of Six
As kids across the country finish their school year on Zoom—— more and more parents are wondering if homeschooling is the answer. Many parents fear they won’t be able to juggle it on top of their own jobs and obligations. Linsey Knerl is a mother of six and a freelance journalist whose own…
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Let's Learn About Science
STEM is science, technology, engineering, and math - critical requirements for several of today's well-paid careers. Introducing your children to simple STEM ideas at an early age can prepare them to be more successful in life. STEM-based education teaches children more than science and math. It...
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When Partners Become Parents
Sleepless nights, life changes causing stress, and even postpartum depression are things most new parents know are possible when baby comes home. Sudden relationship and personal challenges might come as a big surprise to new parents. Navigating life as a family can be harder than you expect....
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Happy Mom, Happy Kid
Moms, do you have days when you feel like your entire life is about your kids, your family and NOT about you at all? Maria and Zelmira, authors of the book Happy Mom, Happy Kid, say "Motherhood is a gift of unimaginable love and happiness. But in between playdates and nap-time, you can’t help but...
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5 Habits to Ditch Debt & Build Wealth
Don't you wish someone would've taken the time to teach you money-management concepts at a young age? Think for a moment what your life would be like. How important would that be to share with your child or grandchild?” says Holly Reid, award-winning author, speaker, and certified financial...
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Coming Out As Queer
Kids might start to feel "different" throughout childhood, but they don't know what these feelings mean. Kids might be gay, lesbian, bi, trans or queer - but are not sure. How do kids figure out what to do with these feelings and even what they are? "Coming out" is a gradual process to…
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Coding for Kids, a Basic Skill for the 21st Century
Computers are part of the fabric of every aspect of our life today. Computers are made to work by coding, and coding is the language of the technology in our environment. It is no longer something that we opted in to learn in computer class. Instead, today coding is the basic literacy skill of…
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Money Prep for Kids
Kids like to spend money! But are they thinking it through? Responsible spending habits will help your child learn how to make the right choices. Kids want to save money for many things, but don’t know how. As a parent, we all want the best for our children, for them to be happy and do well in...
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Growing Stronger through Rejection
When people make you question your beliefs, decisions or preferences in a way that causes shame, it is demoralizing. So, how do you deal with the anxiety from this negative judgement. We hear a lot about knowing your own strengths and limitations, not letting others define you, and finding your…
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How to Make Your Teen Emotionally Intelligent?
If you have teens, you have probably seen everything from anger, screaming, sadness, shame, defiance, happiness and the plethora of other emotions in the rollercoaster we call growing up. It is hard to keep up with these ups and down, as emotions swing from one extreme to the other. As our…
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The Case for Home Schooling
Parents choose to homeschool their children for various reasons. Usually, because they believe they can give their child a better education than the local school can, integrate teachings on religion or there is some other reason that their child may not be able to attend school. Homeschooling...
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Protecting Kids in School Shootings
The recent Boulder, Colorado shooting once again has America considering what if anything can be done to improve gun safety. Over 20 years since the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, there are more than 248,000 children at 258 schools that have experienced these unspeakable acts of...
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The Growth Mindset
As a parent, you want your kids to be confident and resilient with high self-esteem and ambition to achieve great things in life. Alexandra says “You want them to have a positive outlook on life and try new things. And at the same time, you don't want them to be afraid of making a mistake or…
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Raising a Rock-Star Reader
Why is Reading so important for kids? Reading for pleasure can benefit a child’s education, social and cognitive development, their wellbeing, and their mental health. When children read, it provides them with a deep understanding about their world and fills them with knowledge that they use make...
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What to Tell Kids About Death, Divorce, Cancer
In 2012, Sara Oshler, left her marriage with an 18-month old and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017. Life is not always happy times. Every family has their challenges and struggles. Difficult situations like divorce, cancer, crime, or family death creates stress for parents and children.…
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Find Safe Childcare Instantly
Every parent has been there before - you need to find a babysitter for date night, or you wake up one morning to discover your child is too sick for school or daycare. You call around to find someone to watch the kids but strike out. Many parents find themselves unable to secure their regular...
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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race & Family Life
Does class and race change the course of our lives? Annette Lareau studied African American and white families to understand the impact of how social class makes a difference in children's lives. 10 years later, Lareau revisited these families to examine the impact of social class as these…
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How we Find Strength After Suffering
Children can face significant childhood adversity: the loss of a parent through death or divorce, domestic violence, an alcoholic parent, sexual abuse, and bullying at home or school. Meg Jay says these people are not abnormal, but beyond normal, exceptional, extraordinary and heroic in many…
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Recycle Outgrown Kids Stuff into Money
Kids outgrown baby equipment, clothes, sports gear, and more at a rapid pace from the time they are babies to their teen years. You are cluttering up your house, adding to the 12 million tons each year of waste in landfills, or selling used items. Today, parents’ options are to sell used items on...
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Is a Micro School Better Than School?
Any current education system must continually adapt and change to keep pace with the needs of the future. For large schools with a “one-size-fits-all” curriculum, this change can be a struggle. Micro Schools provide flexibility in terms of learning environments, schedules and curriculum and might...
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Make Your Kids Flourish During COVID
In this episode, we talk about the positive and negative impacts of COVID on your children’s mental health. Dr. Ashley Miller talks about practical tips for you to nurture positive growth and learning in your children during this time. She provides ways for you to understand your kids’ behaviour...
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Fourteen Talks by Age 14
Parents struggle to how to talk to their Tweens and Teens about thorny topics like friends, sex, money, hygiene, privilege and more. In this episode, Michelle Icard provides practical approaches and tools on how and when to have these with your kids and steer clear of landmines that shut down the...
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Create Resilient Kids Through Failure
Over-parenting has the potential to ruin a child’s confidence and undermine their education. Parents who rush to school to deliver forgotten assignments, challenge teachers on report cards, interfere in children’s friendships and on the playing field, might be depriving their kids of important…
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Help Your Kids Overcome Procrastination
Do your kids wait until the night before to do their homework? Students don’t procrastinate because they are lazy, but instead due to deeper issues of fear and difficulty. Procrastination can become a bad habit - the more we defer action, the more apprehensive we become, the less we accomplish.…
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Teach Your Child Physical Literacy
Today, our 'digitally distracted' way of life creates social disconnect, poor mental health, obesity and unhappiness. Basic movement skills, like jumping, running, skipping, throwing are difficult activities for some kids they don’t know how to move. This adds to issues of increased screen time…
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Celebrations In A Today's Pandemic Striken World
Dawn Lopez is the owner of Cutefetti, an award-winning blog with over 300,000 community members. Cutefetti provides practical resources that inspire and help families celebrate life’s most important occasions. People who cultivate a daily attitude of celebration and gratitude are happier. In a...
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Has your Marriage Taken a Backseat to Work, Kids & Life?
Monica Tanner is a relationship and intimacy expert. She helps couples strengthen their marriages given the challenges of work, kids and life. There are lots of ups and downs in a marriage and sometimes it is too much. A study at the University of California at Berkeley found that after children,...
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Find Your Passion, You Lost in Motherhood
Camille Walker is the founder of MyMommyStyle.com, a lifestyle parenting blog. She is also the host of the “Call me CEO” podcast, and a champion to help mothers find their passion and creativity, while balancing motherhood and being their own boss. A mother of 4 children, Camille writes about a...
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Kids and Sleep. Should I be worried?
In this episode, we talk about the dangers of kids not getting enough sleep and what parents can do to help their children develop healthy sleep habits. Megan Copeland is a certified sleep consultant and the founder of SlumberFeed, a company she founded to help tired parents and kids figure out…
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Gift Better & Save More This Holiday Season
Teresa says that “As the holiday gift-giving season approaches, we often are filled with a sense of dread: How will we ever find the perfect gift for everyone on our list, the time to finish our shopping and the money to pay for all the stuff we need to buy?” Her latest article “How to stop the...
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How To Be As Happy As You Look On Social Media?
Jessica is a sought-after thought leader, and bestselling author. Her book, Unfiltered: How To Be As Happy As You Look On Social Media, sold out on its first day. Women's Health Magazine named it #1 on its list of self-love books. It was chosen for the official GRAMMY Awards Gift Bag. Social…
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Help Your Child Figure Out Their Career
JP Michel is the creator of the Challenge mindset and the founder of SparkPath, the company that helps kids answer the question “What do I want to be when I grow up?” A common answer parents get from their children to this question is “I don’t know.”. Now what. In this episode, JP talks about how...
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Raising Humans In A Digital World
Diana Graber is the author of “Raising Humans in a Digital World”, a book about Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology. She is also the creator of the internationally recognized Cyber-Civics middle school program that is actively taught in schools across 47 US states and many...
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Parents Really Are Their Child's First Teacher
Julie is CEO of Wee School, and previously the founder of Baby Einstein, an infant products company sold to Disney, an Emmy-Award winning creator of children’s videos and a New York Times best selling author of over 30 children’s books. Recognized by President George W. Bush in his State of the...
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For The Sake of Family
Carlee Krtolica is a mom and the editor-in-chief and founder of Styled to Sparkle, a lifestyle blog for mom’s and parents. It is no secret that mothers working full-time always grapple with the guilt that they are not giving enough time to their children. Managing kids, taking care of the family...
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The Back Story
My name is Jaison Dolvane. I am the host of this podcast, “Reaching Roots” and also the founder of WishSlate, which is a company I founded to change the way we gift. This is a short intro to who I am, my story and why we are doing this Podcast. Click here for Resource Links, Episode Details &...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
“Reaching Roots” is a podcast for parents that provides ideas and insights to improve the lives of your children and family. On this show, we talk to parenting experts, leaders, and people who inspire us through solutions and education to help you and your children learn and grow. Reaching Roots is a metaphor for continuing to grow and reach further.
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