The Blissful Parenting Podcast
by The Blissful Parent
Let’s face it, raising kids can be challenging at times and parenting is not always as fun as it can be. Join us every week as we interview parenting book authors, coaches, and bloggers who share their best tips for positive parenting as well as stories of raising their own kids. If you want a break from challenging child behavior and want parenting to be a happier and more fulfilling experience, this is the podcast for you.
Episodes
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Bringing Board Games Back To Family Time with Steven Lentz
Are board games too old to play? Board games are not just for post-thanksgiving, reunions or just for occasions, it is a game for families to play. Why is it important to take back board games to our family time? How can families benefit from playing board games together? Steven Lentz, the author...
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Krushing It In Youth Leadership with Kathy Farley
We often see our kids with these devices in front of their faces all the time. We are worried that they might lose interest in a lot of other important things because of this. Parents, it is now more vital than ever to get our kids back into the natural world to expand their minds, and let them...
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Bullying Stops Here with Suzanne Jean
Bullying is very rampant in our society. Unfortunately, it has been part of schools for many years. Getting our kids bullied is something that we are really worried about. We all know its danger - it can tear our kids apart. How about the bullies? Have you been called in school because your kid…
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Courageous Conversations with Elizabeth Bennett
There’s a lot of things going on with the lives of our teenagers - physically, emotionally, socially and psychologically. This is a crucial time to have a conversation with them, and know what’s going on with their lives. How can we best support our teens right now? How can we start a…
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Parents Make the Best Advocates with Dr Rolanda Fabien
Parents who have children with special needs, oftentimes don't know where to go when they need support. Where can parents of children with special needs find support for their child and for themselves? Why is it important to act as soon as you recognize that there is something different about…
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Three Ultimate Strategies to Calm the Stress Storm in Your Home with Dr. Anne Katona Linn
There's a lot of judgement when kids have behavioral problems. We can’t always expect kids to respond in a senseful way. Most of the time, a kid's initial reaction is crying, freaking out or panicking, especially when they’re in an uncomfortable situation. In this episode, Dr. Anne Katona Linn…
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Peace of Mind Blueprint with Susan Brown
Death is one of the big taboo things people never like to talk about, on the contrary, it is something that we SHOULD be talking about! We’re not here forever. Just like how we should be prepared for the birth of our child, we should also be prepared for our death in the same way. We wouldn’t…
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How Parents With Different Cultures And Values Can Learn To Work Together with Figs O’Sullivan
Every parent grew up in a different family culture. We have different opinions and values on how we will raise our kids. Our parenting style may differ from our spouse. So, how can parents with different values and styles learn to work together in raising their kids? Relationship expert, Figs...
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Getting Your Kids To Talk To You with Jackie Bailey
A lot of kids felt like they were being silenced and they’re unheard - making them feel unimportant. These are just some of the reasons why parents are struggling about getting their kids to talk to them. We want to feel connected to them. We want to know what’s happening to them. So, how can we...
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Help for Grieving Parents and Children with Angela Alexander
Are you grieving over the death of your child? No parent in this world is prepared for their child’s death. They never expect to outlive their children. They’re looking forward to those days when their children reach their dreams and goals in life. It's very painful to lose a child, but how much...
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Modern Dadhood with Adam Flaherty and Marc Checket
There’s a sea of mom’s podcasts out there, but just a handful for dads. Our dads also need support. They need a place where they can celebrate the exciting and rewarding things about having kids and about being dads. They also need a place where they can vent out their struggles and express their...
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Stressless Education with Russ Hanush
Supporting the kids in getting to school is one of the parents’ struggles. “How am I going to support my kids, when I am not very good at it myself?” - some parents ask. Are you having a hard time teaching your kids? You may want to consider getting a tutor for your kids. It will surely take off...
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Helping Kids Navigate Divorce: Control Your Ego with Monica Ramirez
Destroying the other one is a big mistake many parents make when they divorce. Talking negatively about someone whom your kids love, will cause them a lot of confusion, and will affect their future relationships. So, how can you talk to your kids about your divorce without attacking the other…
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Transforming Tension To Connection with Klara Sedlacek
Kids most of the time are messy, loud and obnoxious, but that's just who they are. We want to stay positive and be gentle, but our expectations on our children as well as on ourselves, becomes our biggest clash. How can we not let all of these triggers, hustles and bustles as well as our traumas...
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Protecting Your Children Before ,During & Long After Divorce with Rosalind Sedacca
A lot of marriages have fallen apart, leading to separation and divorce. Divorce is always tough. It dramatically affects everyone in the family, especially the children. Co-parenting doesn't end when the divorce ends, it just begins and will continue for decades ahead. How can you tell your kids...
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Be A Legendary Dad with Kevin Williams
It is so important to recognize the impact husbands and fathers have on their wives and on their children. There's a lot of pressure on Dads, considering the weight of their responsibilities in the family. Dads deserve a community to support them, while they are doing their best to keep it all...
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Raising Kids Without Raising your Voice with Rachel Duffy
Every parent wants a deep connection with their children while guiding them through life. But sometimes we felt like we can’t get that connection, it seems like kids aren’t listening. We try to bottle up everything, then suddenly we explode, we yell, we feel guilty. If we’re not yelling, how can…
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Healthy Habits At Home Through Behavior Change with Sartre Jean-Gilles
Sometimes our fitness gets left behind because of those crazy busy days. The thought of going to the gym on certain days a week is very overwhelming. But healthy habits and fitness should not be the last on our list. It is something that parents should be paying attention to. So despite our…
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Getting Your Kids College Ready with Shellee Howard
Parents, college planning is not just about picking a good school, choosing a course and then forcing your child into it. It's about helping your child figure out their core values, their gifts and their talents. That is the perfect plan for your kids to be college ready. So when should parents...
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Why Must You Teach Your Child About Grief And Loss with Shirley Thiessen
Death and loss is inevitable. As soon as our kids are old enough to love, to have an attachment to something or someone, they will grieve and mourn for those losses. When is the best time to talk about grief and loss to our kids? Well, the best time to prepare for grief is NOT when the tsunami of...
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Teaching Self-Esteem and Confidence To Kids Through Martial Arts with Raja Vaidya
Because of the negativities that are happening in our society including bullying, raising a kid with confidence and self-esteem is very challenging, but it shouldn’t be overlooked - it’s where our kids start to explode their growth and development. So, how can we instill self-esteem and…
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Helping Children Discover Their Gifts: Their Inner Wisdom and Personal Power with Eva Goulette
Kids are such spiritual beings. They have the gifts within that may not yet be discovered. How can we help our kids discover their gifts, connect to their inner wisdom and master their personal power within? Why is it important to teach them the importance of balance between mind, body and…
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Stop Being The Last One On Your List Moms with Tiffiny Roper
Moms usually make themselves last, and sometimes take off themselves from their to-do list. How can you give your kids your all, if you don’t have the energy, if you always make yourself last? Moms, it is taking off your sunshine - so STOP IT, have time with yourself and include your self-care in...
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How to Heal the Trauma Beneath Your Anxiety, Depression and Chronic Pain with Greg Wieting
Is it possible for us to raise healthy kids, but we haven't dealt with our own trauma yet? Does this make us bad? No. We all have wounds, and we’re all doing our best to regulate ourselves so we could not impart the trauma to our children. But the more we heal, the more reliable, the more...
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How To Get Started With Financial Planning For Your Children with Jamie Madigan
As parents, we want all the best for our children, we want to prepare them for a successful future. So saving and investing even in their very young age is very important. How can we teach our kids about money? What are the benefits of getting started early with financial planning for our kids?…
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Help Your Kids Find Their Zone Of Genius with Lynn Teatro
We have seen a huge percentage of college dropouts. These have caused them anxiety, feeling like they weren’t able to live up to their full potential and their zone of genius. How can we help our kids prepare for their success in getting into high school and beyond into college? Listen as Lynn...
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Deeper Connection with your Spouse Leads to Understanding their Minds with Mike Stewart
When we have kids, we sometimes make our marriage less of a priority. We feel like we don’t have much time in the relationship and having a deeper communication with our spouse becomes a challenge. Are you struggling to communicate? How does the communication within your marriage could make an...
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U.G.L.Y. is Always Beautiful with Kelly Falardeau
We are bombarded by negativities and by what people set and believed about the standard of beauty. When we look in the mirror, we usually want to pick out all the things we hate about ourselves, which makes us feel like we’re ugly and we’re not enough. But are we not really enough? Kelly…
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Crucial Parent-Child Communication Skills: The Secret To Improving Them with Denny Coates
Would you like to grow that special bond between you and your child? Improving your communication skills is the key that you need. We all know that in this busy world, and in this digital world, communication within the family is very challenging, but it doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Yes, you can...
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5 Ways to Create High Self-Esteem Kids with Gail Kauranen Jones
Kids are melting, falling apart, and struggling with some mental health issues. They feel like they’re unworthy and always invalidated - which makes a child live with low self-esteem. How can we instill a higher sense of self-esteem to our kids? In this interview, Gail Jones talks about the 5...
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Healthy Kids Healthy with Farm Grown Food with Greg Peterson
What if there is a garden in every yard? What if every family grows their own food without pesticides, without herbicides or without chemicals? How could it change your child's health forever? Greg Peterson is the creator of the concept called the Urban Farm. He is a green living and…
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Stop the grocery store Meltdowns with Dinalynn Rosenbush
Kids' tantrums during grocery time isn’t fun. It is embarrassing to endure those glares and stares from people around watching your kids meltdown. Are you tired of those grocery nags and meltdowns? Can you actually make the grocery time with your kids enjoyable? Listen to Dinalynn Rosenbush, a...
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How to Help Your Kids Foster an Abundance Mindset with Cori Javid
Our money beliefs and habits can be pass on to our kids. So as parents, we have the opportunity to be the gateway to the next generation to create an abundance mindset. How can we pass that abundance mindset to our kids? How can we help them foster a healthy relationship with money? Find it out…
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How to Create Successful Teen Social Media that Enhances Their Future with Donovan Dreyer
When we talk about social media to kids and teens, we usually have that negative perspective about it, but is it really how we thought about it? What if you can figure out a way to make this social media a great tool to help your teens in their future? Teen Takeoff Coach Donovan Dreyer, joins...
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Consciously Parenting Through Human Design with France Tailleur
What does it meant to consciously parent through human design? When you look at your child through their human design, you are able to look at them for who they are. In this episode, Michelle is joined by Human Design Parenting Coach, France Tailleur. Listen in as they discuss the importance of...
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The Truth About Addiction with Candace Plattor
Do you have fears that your child is addicted to drugs, alcohol, or even social media? The fact is, in today’s society, there are so many social obstacles for kids to face than many of us had to when we were younger. Join Michelle and her guest, Addictions Therapist Candace Plattor, as they delve...
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Protecting The Mental Health Of LGBTQIA+ Kids with Heather Hester
As a parent, it's important to be aware of the unique mental health challenges that LGBTQIA+ kids face. Unfortunately, many families don't know how to talk about these issues, or even how to recognize them. When Heather's son came out as gay, she realized that he had been hiding himself from her...
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Help Kids Unpack Their Emotional Backpack with Dimple Arora
Even kids can regulate big emotions and recalibrate their brains with simple EFT techniques. Dimple Arora is here today to tell us how we can teach our kids to manage their emotions and also more easily switch between activities. Dimple Arora is the founder of Mindful Evolution (ME) — a parenting...
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Why Kids Need This "Old-Fashioned" Skill with Trixi Symonds
The surprising thing that today's guest discovered is that kids thrive when they learn how to sew! Teaching kids how to sew helps with focus and concentration, self-esteem...and a sense of pride in creating something themselves. Not to mention, they get to create something beautiful. Trixi…
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From Chaos To Joyful Parenting In Just 15 Minutes A Day with Sue DeCaro
Everyone has an opinion about how you should be parenting your child, but who knows them better than you? If traditional parenting advice just isn't working for you, Sue DeCaro is here to share how we can find joy in parenting by tuning into who our children really are. Sue is a heart-centered...
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Empower Your Kids Without Losing Control with Pan Vera
It's essential to empower your kids to make their own decisions, but that doesn't mean you have to completely let go of control. You can give them a safety net while also giving enough space for them to learn to make smart choices on their own. Pan Vera is on the podcast to tell us how to foster...
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Making Co-Parenting Work with Mardi Winder-Adams
Going through a divorce is never easy, but it can be especially difficult when there are children involved. Not only do you have to deal with your own emotions, but you also have to figure out how to co-parent with your ex. This can be a challenge for even the most level-headed parents. Mardi...
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Three Steps To Weeknight Dinner Success with Marie Fiebach
If "what's for dinner?" is your least favorite question, this is the episode for you. No matter who you are, you can follow Marie's three step process to be cooking meals at home almost every night. It's completely based on you, your life, and even your kids' changing food preferences. Marie...
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What To Do If A Bully Targets Your Kid with Jason Cronan
For as long as bullying has existed, parents have struggled to know how to handle it. If a bully starts targeting your child is it better to tell your child to ignore it? Or fight back? How much should you step in? The question of what to do about bullies has become more and more pressing as the...
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Transform Anger—For You AND Your Kids with Lorraine Durnford-Hill
None of us expected to be an angry parent. But more often than we would have thought, anger comes over us. It happens for our kids too. There's a lot of big emotions happening for parents and their children. Lorraine is on the podcast today telling us a variety of methods we can use to prevent...
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Supporting Kids Through Anxiety with Shaista Fatehali
From her years as a teacher Shaista knows that kids can't learn if they don't feel safe, both physically and emotionally. She noticed what a big difference it made for children to learn "soft skills" like emotional regulation along with academics and from that observation a new career was born....
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Four Ways To Help Children Cope With Grief with Michele Benyo
There's no doubt that this is a difficult topic but because it is so hard to talk about many parents have no idea how to help their children cope with grief, especially if they are also dealing with their own grief. A lot of the ways grief was handled in our own childhoods amplified trauma…
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Is Your Kid Ready For The Future? with Nellie Harden
Too many young people are hitting adulthood completely unprepared. I think a lot of us are worried that could be our kids one day. But Nellie Harden is back on the show to share with us how we can start wherever we are now, whatever age our kids are now, to set them up for a wildly successful and...
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Simple Montessori At Home with Rachel Schindler
Parents are often intimidated by Montessori and not sure about trying Montessori principles at home, but the truth is it doesn't need to be complicated. With two concepts, following the child and a prepared environment, Rachel Schindler is on the podcast to show us small ways we can bring...
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The Key To Preventing Mom Burnout With Rachael O'Meara
Just as with music, sometimes the pauses are the most important part. In our lives (that keep getting busier and busier) we have to prioritize taking a pause and bringing breathing room back in. Rachael O'Meara is our guest on the podcast today, sharing a variety of methods to create those pauses...
About this show
Let’s face it, raising kids can be challenging at times and parenting is not always as fun as it can be. Join us every week as we interview parenting book authors, coaches, and bloggers who share their best tips for positive parenting as well as stories of raising their own kids. If you want a break from challenging child behavior and want parenting to be a happier and more fulfilling experience, this is the podcast for you.
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The Blissful Parent