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Seeing The Future
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - June 28, 2021 23:05 - 14 minutesChildren can be short-sighted, only seeing the here and now, and as such get easily overwhelmed. The fact of the matter though is that sometimes we as parents have a hard time seeing anything for our children beyond their current struggles. Learn how to see the future so that your children ca...
Cowpies For Breakfast!
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - June 17, 2021 18:59 - 13 minutesWe learned some pretty cool lessons recently working with cows! Lessons that will streamline your home and make things better and easier! All while smelling like roses rather than cow poo! This is where joy lives! Become a Parenting Hero: Go to https://revolutionaryfamilies.com Enter your...
When Lightning Strikes
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - June 11, 2021 22:14 - 13 minutesThis is the story of when we narrowly averted a major crisis with an actual lightning strike. And it is the story of how heavenly help is there for the asking to give us answers when we on our own are at a total loss. This is where joy lives! Become a Parenting Hero: Go to https://revoluti...
I Wish I Was Superman!
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - May 31, 2021 15:07 - 12 minutesHow many times a week do we hear: "I wish I could..." or, "I wish I could have..." or, "couldn't we do that Mom"? It seems like we get a constant barrage of requests for the unreasonable. Why can't our kids just grow up already! What if we could learn to meet them where they are, validate t...
What CAN We Do?
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - May 24, 2021 14:02 - 17 minutesThe pressures of the world would see every last hope and dream for joy and happiness in our families absolutely crushed. If we don't choose to stand up as parents, then the lifeblood will be quickly squeezed out of our families. The good news is regardless of how hard life gets, or how many ex...
Making Our Marriage The Heartbeat Of Our Family
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - May 14, 2021 16:12 - 11 minutesWe care about our kids so much that it is super easy to get distracted from the core of our family - each other! So we decided to share some of the things that we do to keep that heartbeat vivacious and full of life! Even when our kids have so much going on, or are still little, or whatever! ...
What Every Struggling Teenager Needs
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - May 08, 2021 23:14 - 18 minutesOur teens are getting brutalized left and right every day. To make it worse, most teens beat themselves up pretty hard for their mistakes and blunders. So what can we give them that will carry the day, even when we're not with them??? This is where joy lives! Become a Parenting Hero: Go ...
Totally Off Track In Tokyo
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - April 29, 2021 03:02 - 17 minutesAs adults, most of the time we feel like we've got everything under control. But that isn't the case for our kids. In fact we need to learn to become aware of when they are losing hope so that we can give them the help needed to soldier on. To make it all clear, we give a story that acts as a...
Taming My Tongue
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - April 20, 2021 03:15 - 16 minutesWe have. Sometimes it feels like a daily occurrence. Our natural tendency to always want to be "right" really makes it difficult not to! In this episode we talk about what we've learned to turn that around and really connect with each other in a beautiful, long-lasting kind of way! This is w...
Secret Girlfriends & Boundaries
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - April 04, 2021 07:24 - 15 minutesSometimes, in the interest of a perceived greater good for our children, we start spouting edicts left and right. And oftentimes, when in that mode, we actually end up pushing our children deeper into the behavior we were trying to save them from with our dictatorial decrees. In this episode w...
Crazy Puppy Love
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - March 22, 2021 22:36 - 15 minutesPuppies are super adorable. And can be a bit frustrating as well. Our recent experiences in puppy sitting opened our eyes about some of the things we do with our children that really aren't reasonable. This is where joy lives! Join us at the 2021 Parenting Heroes Online Summit! Go to https:...
Oh Yeah... I Do That Too...
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - March 11, 2021 01:12 - 12 minutesWe oftentimes find ourselves getting on our kids, for the exact same things we do ourselves, or have certainly done in the past. Recognizing that can help us to find more patience and to put ourselves in their shoes and be their friend and advocate rather than their accuser. This is where joy ...
Samantha Busch
Getting It Together with Eirene the GIT Mom - March 10, 2021 08:30 - 38 minutesToday’s guest is the star of CMT’s reality tv series, Racing Wives, co-owner of one of THE most successful racing teams in NASCAR, a fashion mogul, and your new fertility guru. In this week's episode, Samantha Busch sits down with Eirene for a candid conversation about her struggles to grow her f...
Humpty Dumpty
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - March 05, 2021 03:09 - 12 minutesWe work so hard to build our ideal life, to create a picture perfect home. The way it should be. The way we've always wanted it to be. And then, it all comes crashing down. Out of nowhere we're thrown a curveball we don't know how to deal with. And all of a sudden life sucks again. Using a...
Forging Connections in the Face of Frustration
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - February 25, 2021 03:47 - 17 minutesIn this episode we present a story of when we actually did a pretty good job of bypassing what could have easily boiled into caustic conflict. Most of the time we fall prey to natural tendencies and slip all too easily into disappointment and discouragement. Listen to learn what you can do to ...
Flying Butts
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - February 18, 2021 05:01 - 16 minutesOur kids are children. They are not actually just miniaturized adults. As such, we need to be aware of where our children are and match them there so that they can actually receive and feel the tremendous amount of love that we have for them. This is where joy lives! Become a Parenting Her...
The Man & The Lady
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - February 10, 2021 17:31 - 15 minutesWe become who we are by the stories that we carry. And we connect to each other through storytelling. So what stories are we giving to our children? What stories are we using to shape who are children become? What stories are we utilizing to bring our families closer together each day? This...
STOP Suffocating
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - February 06, 2021 19:20 - 12 minutesWe can't help our children when we can't breathe ourselves. This is what we do to stop suffocating so that we can support our children. (Part 2 of 2) This is where joy lives! Become a Parenting Hero: Go to https://revolutionaryfamilies.com Enter your name and email address Gain access to...
Stuck on a Mountain with a 10 year old
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - February 04, 2021 05:28 - 16 minutesMe and my boy found ourselves near the top of a serious mountain, stuck, and only digging ourselves into a deeper hole as we did all the wrong things. Sometimes, our natural instincts do the same thing to us as parents, digging us into deeper and deeper pits when we thought we were "solving" pr...
The Toilet Bowl Turnaround
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - January 30, 2021 19:53 - 12 minutesOur propensity as parents to pretend that everything is perfect is probably pretty prejudicial to our poor offspring! This is where joy lives! Become a Parenting Hero: Go to https://revolutionaryfamilies.com Enter your name and email address Gain access to The #1 Parenting Secret Conne...
Crystal? Or Crap?
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - January 28, 2021 04:58 - 12 minutesRarely, if ever, is our communication in our homes crystal clear. And it matters a lot as a large degree of our family felicity is dependent on something other than crappy conversations! This is where joy lives! Become a Parenting Hero: Go to https://revolutionaryfamilies.com Enter your nam...
Is This What We Signed Up For???
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - January 23, 2021 20:50 - 12 minutesParenting can be pretty poopy sometimes. Other times it can be rather rewarding. Oftentimes the only difference is what we choose to do with our choices. Meaning that the same exact action, even when repeated a thousand billion times, can be a total catastrophe mentally, or a cumulatively con...
Wolverine and Parenting
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - January 21, 2021 01:45 - 11 minutesWe got to see one of our all-time favorites performed this last week. We were quickly reminded why we love Les Misérables so much, and found a superb analogy that helps us with our parenting in an equally fantastic way. This is where joy lives! Become a Parenting Hero: Go to https://revolu...
Our Kids are Drowning!
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - January 16, 2021 21:31 - 13 minutesIt can be pretty commonplace to miss the signals that our children are sending out that they are fundamentally lacking in a big way; even when they are replacing saline solution (for contacts) with mouthwash! How do we do a better job of recognizing what is going on with our children? And t...
You're Not Alone
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - January 14, 2021 06:31 - 14 minutesComparison leads to isolation. Isolation amplifies struggle. Being real and open, rather than trying to pretend that we're all that, leads to shared strength to overcome the struggle. This is where joy lives! Become a Parenting Hero: Go to https://revolutionaryfamilies.com Enter your name...
From Anarchy to Order
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - January 10, 2021 04:58 - 11 minutesAnarchy bites. Order is beautiful. When we aren't diligently maintaining our family systems, we quickly fall apart. What's worse is that our own brains fight against us when we try to improve the structure of our home. Hear us share from our own current struggles to overcome as we share so...
I Totally Suck!
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - January 06, 2021 22:59 - 13 minutesThere must be a long tradition spread across humankind of sincere self-deprecation. While we may claim that by so doing, we're only harming ourselves, the truth is that as we role model that behavior in front of our children, we are damaging our child's ability to manage their emotions and the...
Stop Being So Serious
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - January 03, 2021 03:47 - 13 minutesAt least in the movies, Einstein was just as serious about laughing. We feel the same way. Even though we're not seriously funny by nature, we strive to laugh along the way and give some tips on what you can do to bring the best medicine into your home as well. This is where joy lives! Becom...
What are YOU doing?
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - December 31, 2020 22:44 - 12 minutesThe normal course for the human brain when facing a problem is to start with the How. That doesn't work well at all. Smart people, and especially smart parents know that the best approach is to start with the Why. Listen in to learn how you can create a solid foundation for effective parent...
Lost In A Haze
Revolutionary Families: Parenting Heroes - December 30, 2020 22:34 - 12 minutesIt is vital that we as families have direction. That we know where we are going. When we don't have a clear vision, it begins to feel like we're just treading water. Forever. In this episode we present some ideas on how to clear away the fog and set a clear focus for the year ahead. This is...
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