Expert Devorah Heitner discusses mentoring over monitoring teens with screens. How to teach self-regulation, track phone locations, navigate social media use, and support teen influencers. Highlighting the challenges of raising teens in a digital world and the importance of open conversations and parental support.

Back for another relisten - this is one I send to people regularly! Appreciating you tuning back in. And even if pot smoking isn't a challenge that is currently in your household, be sure that there are tons of nuggets in this episode for you to be taking away and integrate into your parenting.For full show notes and info about our sponsors, go to: https://www.besproutable.com/podcasts/eps-309-solo-show-paradox-parenting-pot-smoking/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today is my returning friend, Yolanda Williams! We’re getting a little meta this week as we focus on what white parent educators can be doing better, but believe me, this episode is full of great content for all parents.  After catching-up on how Yolanda, Parenting Decolonized, and her daughter are doing, Yolanda jumps in and explains who takes on the emotional, physical, and spiritual labor of what’s going on in our world and why it’s such a huge deal for white parent educators to choose silence in order to not offend their clients. The labor, racism, and speaking out about hot topics that parent educators who are people of color are doing take so much time and effort that white parent educators may not even think of. I get vulnerable with Yolanda and ask about what I can do when I feel uninformed and uncomfortable about topics that I know are important to call out (spoiler: you don’t need to have all the answers to start speaking out). I ask Yolanda specifically what I can do to make Joyful Courage a more equitable podcast & platform and what I can be teaching new, fresh parent educators. Takeaways from the show The roots of traditional parenting in our country is uncomfortable and rooted in racism, sexism, & capitalism  What’s the responsibility of white parent educators around race? Where can we grow? What’s completely missing?   Who is taking on the spiritual, physical, and emotional labor of what’s going on in the world right now? How can we weigh in and stand-up for people when we don’t know or understand enough information to feel confident about doing so?  Asking yourself what you’re scared of that’s keeping you from speaking out? Sit with it, and do it anyway  Centering what our most marginalized children need - everything that they need to be liberated will liberate us, too  Using media as a starting point for these conversations For more show notes, including transcripts, visit our website here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, the host explores different parenting styles from permissive to authoritative, emphasizing the importance of connected firmness when raising teens. Firmness in communication, setting boundaries, and promoting health and well-being are crucial aspects highlighted in the discussion.

My guest today is Mark Daley, and he’s here today to talk about all-things foster care. Mark shares the path that led to him writing his new book, “Safe,” gives us ideas on ways that people can help support foster kids, and explains what foster kids need. I bring up how scary it can be thinking about opening your home to a stranger and ask what upstream interventions are in place to improve the foster care system. Mark leaves us on a happy note when he brings up the amazing people he works with and a first step if you’re interested in learning more about fostering children.  Takeaways from the show Hear about Mark’s new book, “Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family”  Why do people choose to foster?  There’s a critical shortage of foster parents There are many ways to help foster children besides fostering  “These aren’t bad kids; these are kids in a bad situation.”  How and where can foster kids pick up the life skills they need to be successful?   What’s a starting point if you’re interested in fostering or learning more about fostering? For more show notes, including transcripts, visit our website here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join me this week as we get into how to tighten things up and find the same page with our teens during the long days of summer. I talk about being explicit with our communication, agreements, and the power of collaboration. Check it out!Find more show notes and information about our sponsors at https://www.besproutable.com/podcasts/Eps-500-Finding-common-ground-during-the-summertime-with-your-teen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today is our returning friend, Ed Center.  I kick off our conversation asking Ed what Pride month means to him, and he shares his thoughts: we want to celebrate our families, the history of our community, and acknowledge that we weren't always able to have these rights & privileges. It’s a celebration of family. I ask what we can do to get out of our bubble, and Ed shares simple, do-able ideas around how to talk to your kids and how to grow as a better advocate, while giving yourself grace. We dig into how not letting discomfort or not knowing the exactly right thing to do can stop us from helping others and why we have to lean into that discomfort. Takeaways from the show Pride month is an opportunity to share with our kids that they live in a family with a different arrangement than other families There are many family-friendly Pride events  How do you talk to your kids? What’s your default language around family, class, race?   Pushing assumptions and changing your language to expand your and your kids’ perspectives We have to stand up for all kids, not just our kids  Pride month challenge: Find and reach out to or donate to small LGBTQIA+ communities & resources in a red state  Be nice and stay grounded in love For more show notes, including transcripts, visit our website here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join me this week as I share about the layers of scaffolding that come with building a home environment steeped in Positive Discipline. Starting with a foundation of parental personal growth and development, and building on top of that by focusing on relationships, creating systems and routines so that everyone is on the same page, and finally, mutually respectful, in-the-moment tools. Join me and consider how you can bring your takeaways into YOUR home and YOUR relationship with YOUR adolescents.Find all show notes and information about our sponsors at: https://www.besproutable.com/podcasts/eps-498-building-the-house-of-positive-discipline-as-parents-of-teens/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today is Elizabeth Brunner, the founder of StereoType Kids, a gender-inclusive fashion brand inspired by her boy/girl twins. Elizabeth shares her story, what gender-inclusivity means to her, and what blended fashion is. We talk on unlearning social norms & gender stereotypes, and I share a surprising story of a time this came up for me personally when Ian was young. Elizabeth shares the difference between how people react when her daughter dresses more traditionally-masculine versus when her son dresses in more traditionally-feminine clothes and how she coached her son to reply when someone tells him what he “can’t wear.” I bring up the dance between encouraging our daughters to express and wear whatever they want while still keeping them safe from dangerous people.  Takeways from the show Get to know StereoType Kids, a gender-inclusive fashion brand  What is gender-inclusivity? What is blended fashion?  “We try to fit into society and society norms, and that’s not actually normal. We’re meant to be expressive.”  Unlearning social norms  We don’t realize all of our conditioning until we have to confront it  Being curious about our responses to our child(ren)  “Me is all I want to be.”  Keep growing, keep being curious, & keep discovering new parts of yourself For more show notes, including transcripts, visit our website here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if everything is going to be fine? What if we decide to live in the uncertainty of parenting teens from a place of faith and possibility? How would that change right now for you? Join me this week as we explore the qualities that are driving us crazy as we parent our kids WHILE ALSO knowing these exact same qualities are going to serve them one day... Stretch your mind, grow your perspective, listen in.Check out all the show notes and more info about our sponsors at: https://www.besproutable.com/podcasts/eps-496-fortune-telling-and-considering-that-our-teens-lives-are-unfolding-for-them/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices