Cultivating the Virtues

Check out the line up for our latest thrilling episode! Situation of the Week (Jenn): Mutual Problem-Solving with a Babysitter Topic: When Temperaments Clash! (begins 13:33) Link: Podcast #2: Temperament Q & A: Is it effective for parents to play good cop/bad cop with their kids? If so, why? And if not, what do you think the root of parents playing these roles is? (begins 37:49) Links: Books by Barbara Coloroso Kids Are Worth It! : Giving Your Child The Gift Of I...

We are happy to bring you yet another exciting episode of Cultivating the Virtues! This episode is a whole lot funnier than the others somehow. . . we laugh a lot. Yay! Situation of the Week (Kelly): “Storming off in a museum because of a pottery disagreement” If you want that to make sense, you have to listen! Topic: Talking about your parenting ideas and principles with your kids (begins 7:05) Link: Parenting Principles at Rational Jenn Q & A: When (if eve...

Okay, so we skipped putting out a podcast last week, so we’re making up for it by posting a REALLY INTERESTING podcast this time. Situation of the Week (Jenn): Teaching kids what to do instead of just fussing at them for making mistakes. Amazing how helpful that is. Links: On Minilectures at Rational Jenn Topic: Talking to your kids about sex (begins 6:02) Links: It’s Not the Stork: A Bo...

Look at that! Three weeks, three podcasts, woohoo! Situation of the Week (Jenn): “If I scream, he wins.” (It’ll make sense when you listen!) Topic: Living an “Adult-Centered” vs a “Child-Centered” Life (begins 8:48) Link: “Child Friendly without being Child Centered” at Reepicheep’s Coracle (Kelly’s blog) Q & A: How do you handle a parenting mistake when you realize you were unfair, but your child communi...

Yay! Another episode! Please forgive the buzzing in the background; we’re trying to figure it out. Situation of the Week: Handling problems among children when some of the children are ignoring another Topic: Brainstorming Parenting Problems–Kelly and Jenn discuss a problem that Kelly is having and come up with some solutions together (begins 6:01) Q & A: What should you do when other people try to force their kids to share or give stuff to your kids? (begins 21:11...

Hey there! We’re back and recording lots of podcasts this summer, woohoo! Astute listeners will have noticed that we’ve skipped ahead a bit in our numbering. We have not published podcasts 14 and 15 yet due to some technical issues, but we put them up as soon as we can. Rather than put everything on hold [...]

As you may know, Kelly and Jenn will be giving a talk at Front Range Objectivism’s SnowCon on March 12. We recorded a mini-podcast as a preview of our talk “Effective Communication: How Objectivists can Use Positive Discipline Tools in their Adult Relationships.” We will be giving this talk at ATLOSCon, too. Give it a listen! And we hope to see yo...

We’re pleased to present the 13th episode at long last! Please know that we are aware of some technical issues–Kelly has a lot of static on her mic, but believe us when we say that it was much worse before Brendan got a hold of the files! Please bear with us while we work through some of these issues (which will likely exist on the next podcast, too, since we recorded them at the same time). Situation of the Week (Jenn): Helping a toddler cope with fears and enjoying his self-awaren...

And we’re back! Our longish break from publishing podcasts was mostly unintentional, though once it became clear we would be taking some time off, I suppose we could have written a post to let everyone know. Basically, we just got busy pursuing other values in our lives–grad school, homeschool, vacations, etc. But we missed podcasting, and we have more coming soon, hopefully on a semi-regular basis. Yay! The Line Up Situation of the Week (Jenn): How Jenn handled an ongo...

At long last, we are happy to present our 11th podcast! We are grateful for the feedback we received from our listeners about the technical issues with the last podcast. Hopefully this one sounds a little better–Brendan turned the sound way up, so we’re hoping that will solve at least some of the problem. We didn’t test it on an iPod (because we’re currently on vacation!), but I think we’ll start this testing as part of our production process. If you have feedback about t...