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In the Middle of It with Amy Kelly, The Ish Girl — 159 episodes
Best of: Empathy that Outweighs Fear - A Book Talk on A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
The Power of Stories We Read as Kids with Kristine Hall
Why Banning Books Harms Our Kids - A Call to Action with Kellye Abernathy and Emily Roberson
Stories Saved our Lives - with Kellye Abernathy and Emily Roberson
Book Talk – The Aquamarine Surfboard with Kellye Abernathy
Feeling All the Feelings - Helping Our Teens Regulate Their Own Emotions with Erica Wright
Feeling All the Feels – Regulating Our Own Emotions to Help Our Teens with Erica Wright
The Story of Repair – 4 Steps for After Arguing with Our Teens
The Story of Repair – 3 Steps for When You're in the Heat of an Argument with Your Teen
Fighting Fairly and Our Teens - 6 Questions to Ask About Arguing
Best of: The Mental Health of Gen Z – A Book Talk About When We Collided by Emery Lord
Art Journaling - How to Help Your Teens Capture Their Own Stories And Share Them With You
Art Journaling – How Creativity Can Change Your Middle Schooler's Life
Questioning the Outcome? How to Cope with Doubt as a Middle School Parent or Teacher
Our Middle Schoolers Don't OWE US Respect
5 Keys for Talking to Your Middle Schoolers About School Shootings
The Roadmap to Independence for Our Middle Schoolers
10 Reasons to Give Middle Schoolers More Choices on the Road to Independence
The Best Way to Help Middle Schoolers Learn Independence? Managing Yourself First. Here's Why Questions are The Way to Do It.
The Road to Independence - 3 Keys to Determine Freedoms and Boundaries for Your Middle Schoolers
Best of - Teens NEED Our Stories
Best of - Want to Be an Intentional Parent? Here's What You Need to Know
Best of: Frustrated with Your Teens? How Reframing Can Give You Your Calm Back
Best of: 8 Ways to Break a Negative Cycle with Your Teens
Getting Down to Business - Partnering with Your Teen in Real Life with Oie Dobier
Ready to Explore Your Purpose? Why Middle School is the Best Time to Start the Journey
4 Life Skills Every Middle Schooler Needs - and How Exploring Their Future Can Build Them with Tamara S. Raymond
Should Middle Schoolers Jump into Careering? Why You Want to Start Exploring with Them NOW with Tamara S. Raymond
Ready for the Transition to Middle School? (I'm Talking to YOU, Parents!)
Best Of: Ready for Middle School? Letting Them Fail
Ready for Middle School? 3 Anxiety-Busters for Your Kids
Ready for Middle School? Set Your Child Up for Independence and Success
What to Read Next with Your Teen - 12 New YA Releases for Summer 2021
Best Of: Open-Ended Questions are Magical - How to Ditch Lecturing Your Teens
Recognizing the Effects of the Pandemic on Our Teens
Back to Normal? Not So Fast
Journaling - The First Step in Helping Your Teens Grow Their Social-Emotional Skills
Social Emotional Learning - How It Can Help Our Teens Reintegrate After COVID with Carolyn Gardner
Grief and Loss in the Pandemic – How to Help Teens Navigate
Pandemic Isolation - Showing Up for Our Teens When We've Got Nothing Left
Book Talk - Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson
Anger Inside and Out - Leaning in When You're Mad at Your Teens
Does Being Hard on Yourself Affect Your Teens? Why Taming That Negative Self-Talk is Important
That Does It! 3 Keys for Moving Past Frustration with Your Teens So You Can Connect
What to Read with Your Teen Next
Book vs. Movie - Moxie
BONUS: 3 Unexpected Lesson from an Unplanned Sabbatical
Missing the Big Picture? How to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
Paralyzed By Overwhelm? Here's Why You Need a North Star
Dread the Drudgery? How to Move Beyond Your Tasks to Make an Impact
Struggle with Being a People Pleaser? The Power of "NO"
The Impact of the Grownups We Remember - The Legacy of Great Teachers
The Grownups We Remember - The Far-Reaching Impact of Great Teachers
Struggling with Parent Communication in Your Classroom? 5 Proactive Strategies
Want More Engagement in Your Classroom? The One Thing That Will Make a Difference
Chaos in Your Classroom? Why Systems and Procedures are Your Best Friend
Stress in Your Classroom? How to Navigate Negative Teen Behavior
Connection in Your Classroom: 5 Must-Have Ingredients
Are You On the Team? 6 Ways to Show Up for Your Teens
The Messy Middle of It
Beginning and Ending and Everything In the Middle of It
Practicing Mindfulness with Our Teens - Zoom Busters Part 4
Teen Stress and Anxiety - Zoom Busters Part 3
Mind-Body Awareness - Zoom Busters Part 2
Sit Up Straight! Zoom Busters Part 1
SONDER: What It Is and Why You (and Your Teen) Need It
BE Right or GET IT Right? 3 Mindset Strategies
The 4 Keys to Creating a Captivating Classroom
Teaching from the Inside Out
Creating an Ecosystem – 4 Strategies for a Positive Classroom
3 Keys to Find Your Footing and Start the School Year Strong
Your Classroom in the Time of COVID - Prepping for an Unusual School Year
What to Read Next With Your Teen: 25 Books for Summer 2020
Maximum Impact - 5 Keys for Parenting Your Teens with Intention
Let Your Teens Fail – 5 Strategies to Stop Rescuing Them
Open-Ended Questions are Magical: How to Ditch Lecturing Your Teens
Want to Make a Difference in the World? Start with Your Teens
My Biggest Regrets with My Teens
How Can You Help Your Teens Walk Through the World Right Now?
Teaching and Parenting Teens: It's Not About Managing Them - It's About Managing YOU
Developmentally Appropriate - 5 Ways to Show Up as the Grown Up
The Art of Parent-Teacher Communication
What Will Parent-Teacher Communication Look Like in a Post-Quarantine World?
Quarantine Crazy? 7 Strategies to Cope
Are you a Teacher or a Mentor? There's a Difference
Learning Styles - What's Yours?
Teachers Save the World
Looking for Something New to Read or Watch?
Healthy Boundaries and Social Distancing? Not the Same Thing
YA Books in Classrooms
Coronavirus and Your Teens
Book Talk - Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters by Emily Roberson
What to Read Next in Your Middle School Classroom – and Why It's So Important
To My Teens: I Can't Love You Any More, From: Your Teacher
Solving Problems or Creating Opportunities? 5 Strategies for Those on The Front Lines with Teens
What to Read Next with Your Teens: 25+ Suggestions from My Own TBR Stack
You Belong with Me: 6 Ways to Make Teens Feel Part of Something Bigger Than Themselves
Arguments with Teens? How to Know What Matters - and What Doesn't
Connection Questions - What to Ask Your Teens to Inspire Good Thinking
Live Love to Give Love – 8 Keys to Inspire and Encourage Your Teens
Middle School Teachers MUST Connect with Their Students – Here are 5 Reasons Why
7 Secrets Middle School Teachers Wish Parents Knew
5 Secrets Every Parent Wants Middle School Teachers to Know
Struggling with The Thought Model? 6 Pitfalls to Avoid
Self-Coaching - Simple Steps to Change Your Life (and Your Teens' Too!)
First-Year Teaching in Middle School - A Conversation with Melissa Castillo - Part 2
First-Year Teaching in Middle School - A Conversation with Melissa Castillo - Part 1
There's Something About Sweetie
The Ish Girl Summer Book Club 2019
Difficult Teen? Strategies to Break Through Bad Attitudes
Parenting Teens - My 3 Best Takeaways
The Dish on Author Ally Carter - It's All About Gumption and Gravitas
5 Ways to Remind Yourself You Don't Suck at Parenting - No Matter What Your Teen Says
Girls' Trip - How 3 Generations Connect Over Books
Move Over Helicopters, There's a New Snowplow in Town
The Dish on Miranda Kenneally (Author Extraordinaire)
Building Trust or Breaking It? 9 Questions for You and Your Teen
Happy Birthday to the Podcast! 15 Best Takeaways From Our First Year
Book Talk - A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
Fight, Flight, or Freeze: From FREAKING OUT to Keeping CALM in Tough Moments with Teens
Successful Parenting 101? There is No Such Thing
11 Essential Tips for Strong Parent-Teacher Relationships
32 Gifts for Teens Who Love Books
Book vs. Movie - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
What's Developmentally Appropriate for Teens? Part 2 - Responding Rather Than Reacting in the Moment
What's Developmentally Appropriate for Teens? Flipping Your Frustration and Fear to Calm and Confidence
Book vs. Movie - The Hate U Give
Letters to My Teenager
Book Talk - The Rule of One by Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders
Correction Before Connection – Shift Your Mindset to Meet Your Teens Where They Are
Reach Out: Embracing Community When Life Gets Messy
Book Talk - Impostors by Scott Westerfeld
It Takes a Village - Building a Parenting Community
The Benefits of Self-Care – Taking Care of You, So You Can Connect with Your Teen
The Power of Stories: 6 Steps for Getting Your Teen to Listen – and Ask for More!
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Teen Stress: 18 Dos and Don'ts as You Gear Up for the School Year
The CNP Summer Lit Club: Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
On the Roller Coaster of Parenting Teens? This One's for You!
Begin with the End in Mind: Preparing Your Teen for Adulting
The CNP Summer Lit Club: What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum
7 Things to Know Before Watching 13 Reasons Why
Teens and Mental Health: A Look at When We Collided by Emery Lord
Stay Under Your Own Umbrella! Modeling Healthy Boundaries for Your Teen
Rock the House! And Other Summer Plans with Your Teen (Not the Fun Kind)
Snap Out of It! How to Break the Negative Cycle in Your Parent-Teen Relationship
How to Field Your Teen's Hard Questions Like a Pro
The Impact of We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
How to Rock a Teen Book Festival: 7 Survival Tips
Critical Inner Voice? Here's How to Fix It (and Your Teen's Too!) Part 2
Critical Inner Voice? Here's How to Fix It (and Your Teen's Too) Part 1
The Price of Right: 6 Strategies to Avoid Stupid Arguments with Your Teen
Book vs. Movie - Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
Confessions from an ISH Mom: 5 Tips to Survive Your Teen's Phases
Do You Really Know Your Teen? 5 Lifehacks to Keep Up (without whiplash!)
Book vs. Movie - A Wrinkle in Time
The Subtle Art of (Not) Telling Your Teen What to Read
Book Talk - The Thousandth Floor
Skeptical About Reading Young Adult Books?