The Blissful Parenting Podcast

It's essential to empower your kids to make their own decisions, but that doesn't mean you have to completely let go of control. You can give them a safety net while also giving enough space for them to learn to make smart choices on their own. Pan Vera is on the podcast to tell us how to foster the perfect balance between independence and safety. Pan was born a Heyoka Empath. He is a PSNCC Certified Nonviolent Communication. Pan spent over 400 hours in training with Marshall Rosenberg...

Going through a divorce is never easy, but it can be especially difficult when there are children involved. Not only do you have to deal with your own emotions, but you also have to figure out how to co-parent with your ex. This can be a challenge for even the most level-headed parents. Mardi Winder-Adams is on the podcast to tell us about how we can communicate better and develop a co-parenting plan that works for everyone, reducing conflict and creating a stable environment for kids...

If "what's for dinner?" is your least favorite question, this is the episode for you. No matter who you are, you can follow Marie's three step process to be cooking meals at home almost every night. It's completely based on you, your life, and even your kids' changing food preferences. Marie Fiebach, married mother of four active kids ages 14-19, founded Feed Your Family Tonight to help busy families eat dinner together at home and recapture a little calm in the crazy...

For as long as bullying has existed, parents have struggled to know how to handle it. If a bully starts targeting your child is it better to tell your child to ignore it? Or fight back? How much should you step in? The question of what to do about bullies has become more and more pressing as the results of bullying become more and more severe. And children today have little escape once they are targeted. With the Internet and social media, bullying follows them home in many cases...

None of us expected to be an angry parent. But more often than we would have thought, anger comes over us. It happens for our kids too. There's a lot of big emotions happening for parents and their children. Lorraine is on the podcast today telling us a variety of methods we can use to prevent anger, soothe anger, and transform anger into positive connections...

From her years as a teacher Shaista knows that kids can't learn if they don't feel safe, both physically and emotionally. She noticed what a big difference it made for children to learn "soft skills" like emotional regulation along with academics and from that observation a new career was born...

There's no doubt that this is a difficult topic but because it is so hard to talk about many parents have no idea how to help their children cope with grief, especially if they are also dealing with their own grief. A lot of the ways grief was handled in our own childhoods amplified trauma instead of healing it. Not talking about our lost loved one or "moving on" can do more harm than good...

Too many young people are hitting adulthood completely unprepared. I think a lot of us are worried that could be our kids one day. But Nellie Harden is back on the show to share with us how we can start wherever we are now, whatever age our kids are now, to set them up for a wildly successful and independent future...

Parents are often intimidated by Montessori and not sure about trying Montessori principles at home, but the truth is it doesn't need to be complicated. With two concepts, following the child and a prepared environment, Rachel Schindler is on the podcast to show us small ways we can bring Montessori benefits into our homes. Rachel is a military spouse and a mom of two boys, ages 1 and 2. She received her degree in Human Development and has an Elementary Education License...

Just as with music, sometimes the pauses are the most important part. In our lives (that keep getting busier and busier) we have to prioritize taking a pause and bringing breathing room back in...