Discover how attachment parenting can help you raise emotionally secure, confident, and resilient kids. In this episode, we share what we never do as parents of seven children to protect strong parent-child bonds and cultivate a nurturing family culture. Learn practical strategies to build trust, p…
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#308 ‘Touched Out' or Tired of Tantrums? Here’s How We Still Show Up for Our Kids
Are you struggling with finding the balance between 'guiding' your kids' choices and empowering them with real (but frightening) agency? In this episode, we answer a listener’s thoughtful question about how to support their k...
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#305 Helping Kids Develop and Use Their Agency to Make Good Choices
In this episode, we dive into the key things we never do as parents to raise resilient, emotionally strong kids. We share the strategies and boundaries that have helped our children grow into well-adjusted individuals, capable of facing life's challenges with confidence and emotional stability. Fro…
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#304 Things We NEVER Do As Parents Who Are Raising Resilient, Well-Adjusted Kids
Greg and Rachel Dennings explore the concept of emotional awareness and its profound impact on family life, especially parenting. They discuss the challenges of shifting our emotional state, acknowledging why it can feel difficult and unnatural at times. Through emotional awareness, we can identify…
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#301 Transform Your Parenting with Emotional Awareness & Intelligence: The Key to Family Harmony
In this episode of the Extraordinary Family Life podcast, Greg and Rachel Denning share powerful new year motivation for parents seeking to inspire and guide their children. They discuss the importance of setting goals, embra...
In this episode of the Extraordinary Family Life podcast, hosts Greg and Rachel Denning dive into practical strategies for managing resistant children and helping them develop positive routines and habits . If your child stru...
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#291 Creating Good Routines and Habits for Resistant Children (So They’re Happy Most of the Time)
In this episode of the Extraordinary Family Life podcast, hosts Greg and Rachel Denning explore the challenges parents face when encouraging their children to practice musical instruments , emphasizing the role of music in pr...
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#290 Promoting Lifelong Learning: How to Get Your Child to Practice Their Musical Instrument
In this episode of the Extraordinary Family Life podcast, hosts Greg and Rachel Denning delve into the complexities of the parenting journey , emphasizing the critical nuances that can shape vastly different outcomes for chil...
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#289 A WARNING for Good Moms: Doing This Will Backfire!
In this episode of the Extraordinary Family Life podcast, hosts Greg and Rachel Denning share powerful insights on Proactive Parenting , revealing how to raise kids who develop into responsible, confident teens—teens you not ...
In this compelling episode, Greg and Rachel Denning reveal a crucial insight: being a good person does not automatically make you a good parent. They argue that effective parenting requires a specific set of skills that can b...
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#274 Being a Good Person Does NOT Make You a Good Parent: It’s a VERY Specific Skill You MUST Learn
Welcome to "Raising Teens Today," where Greg and Rachel Denning challenge the norms of parenting teens in today's world and give you strategies for thriving, not just surviving. The Dennings share personal anecdotes that unra...
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#269 'Next Level' Strategies for Raising Teens Today: Building Trust, Connection & Competence
If you're NOT a new parent, you still want to listen to this episode -- because it may help you to understand WHY you have the current relationship you do with your children and/or your spouse because of things that happened ...
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#267 The Challenges (& Lasting Impact) of the Baby/Child-Rearing Phases on Your Marriage & Parent/Child Relationships
Before we had kids, we all had idealized visions of what we *thought* it would be like. For me, it included images of perfectly dressed and pressed children with clean faces sitting on a picnic blanket in the sunshine, enjoyi...
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#243 Why You Don't Enjoy Parenthood As Much As You'd Hoped You Would
Do you want to develop a parenting style and family culture that nurtures instilling values through individual autonomy INSTEAD of through parental control? Parents face many challenges -- and the temptation to control their ...
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#241 Stop Controlling Your Kids & Instead Gain Their Love, Respect & Admiration
Would you love to know how to EFFECTIVELY & correctily discipline your kids? (There is a wrong and right way.) Would you like to be able to discipline without the drama, yelling, punishing, or nagging, AND do it in a way that...
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#239 Stop Punishing. Learn How to (Effectively) Discipline Your Kids
