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Real Talk for Parents
Join us on the Crossmap Podcast with Chris Carpenter for Real Talk for Parents, a new monthly segment where we tackle the challenges of parenting with honesty, empathy, and practical wisdom. Get inspired with real stories and expert insights to help your family thrive.
The Growing Connected Podcast
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19NovemberEpisode 21: Eye Rolls, Sighs, and Slamming Doors: How to Teach Respect By Modeling Respect
How do we deal with the eye rolls, sighs, and other “junk behaviors” that often accomp
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04NovemberEpisode 20: Help When It’s Hard to Connect: Support for a Dad Who Can’t Relate His to Tween
Attachment science points us to two mirroring needs—comfort and delight—that we can us
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21OctoberEpisode 19: Facing Anxiety: How To Help Kids Fight Fear & Grow Strong
Anxiety is one of the most treatable mental health issues to work with, but doing that tak
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07OctoberEpisode 18: When Parents Don’t Agree: Finding a Way to Talk about ADHD
Anyone else ever disagree with your partner over a parenting issue? We don’t think it’
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23SeptemberEpisode 17: Changing Bodies, Changing Brains: 3 Huge Developments Every Teen’s Parent Should Understand
Understanding what’s going on with our kids’ bodies helps all of us.
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09SeptemberEpisode 16: Resisting the Control Trap: A Better Way to Boundaries with Teens
Earlier this year, we received a question from a mom wondering how to direct her child’s
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29AprilEpisode 15: The Key to Connection: Repair after Pain with Andrew Hanauer
A conversation on repair and the importance of being open to making things right after mom
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22AprilEpisode 14: Equipping that Gives Vision with Hope with Dr. Andrés Panasiuk
A conversation about the power of approaching our children’s pain with curiosity and how
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08AprilEpisode 13: Comfort that Strengthens our Kids with Claire Bidwell Smith
It's natural to want to dismiss or move quickly past our kids’ suffering, but making tim
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01AprilEpisode 12: Protecting our Kids from True Harm with D.L. & Krispin Mayfield
What research shows us about real dangers kids face and how opportunities to overcome mana
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25MarchEpisode 11: Boundaries that Free Kids to Grow with Valarie Kaur
A discussion on how to give our kids healthy boundaries so they can safely grow strong whi
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18MarchEpisode 10: Support that Embraces Mistakes with Daniel & Christina Im
A conversation about what healthy support looks like for our kids, and why children grow s
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11MarchEpisode 9: The Transforming Power of Delight with Kelle Hampton
In this episode, we introduce the importance of delight and discuss how faith and science
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04MarchEpisode 8: A Guide to Connection with Lori Beth Auldridge
A discussion on how staying present with our kids over time, through the hard things, buil
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11DecemberEpisode 7: “We battle about bedtime every night.”
Most families deal with bedtime struggles at some point or another. We discuss why kids ar
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03DecemberEpisode 6: “How can I get my kids to help me with chores?”
In today’s episode, a mom wonders how to get her children to help her with chores. We ta
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19NovemberEpisode 5: “My kids’ arguing has me at the end of my rope.”
This week we’ll be discussing a question about a sometimes-too-familiar subject: sibling
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12NovemberEpisode 4: “Help! My son wants to be a YouTuber.”
At least 30% of kids today dream of becoming social media personalities. In the latest epi
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05NovemberEpisode 3: “My 4-year-old demands constant attention”
We consider a question from a mom with a 4-year-old daughter who demands constant attentio
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