Family Confidential: Secrets of Successful Parenting with Annie Fox, M.Ed.
Family Confidential: Secrets of Successful Parenting is a biweekly podcast that focuses on 21st century parenting challenges and solutions. Hosted by Annie Fox and produced by Electric Eggplant, Family Confidential brings you practical parenting advice through in-depth conversations with authors, educators and therapists. If you're a parent of a tween or teen, this series is for you. In fact, you can become part of the series by sending in your parenting questions and getting direct answers. These recorded discussions help parents strengthen family connections by providing tips, child-rearing insight and practical tools for guiding your kids through the teen years and beyond. FamilyConfidential.com
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 133
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2018
FC 013: Queen Bees Go Hi-Tech - Guest: Rosalind Wiseman (December 7, 2009)
The recent rise in the use of social digital media has brought a new wrinkle to the way tween and teens girls deal with friendship conflicts and it's not pretty. In this podcast I talk with Rosalind …
00:54:29 |
Tue 08 Dec 2009
FC 012: Did I Bite Off More Than I Can Chew? - Guest: Izzy Rose (November 23, 2009)
Life is full of surprises. But when you marry a man with children and become a stepmom, you may find that the ride you signed on for is the Turn My Life Upside Down variety. In this podcast I talk wi…
00:41:26 |
Tue 24 Nov 2009
FC 011: Good Girl vs. Real Girl - Guest: Rachel Simmons (November 9, 2009)
By idealizing and rewarding the Good Girl, we teach girls to become people-pleasing shadows of themselves, thus limiting their power and potential. In this podcast I talk with Rachel Simmons, author …
00:39:06 |
Tue 10 Nov 2009
FC 010: I Don't Wanna Go to School! Overcoming School Anxiety - Guest: Diane Peters Mayer (October 26, 2009)
Kids aren't necessarily supposed to love school. But when a child is either terrified to go to school because of something going on there or something that might happen to the family when they're not…
00:54:24 |
Tue 27 Oct 2009
FC 009: Am I Really a Bad Mother or is the Bar Unrealistically High? - Guest: Ayelet Waldman (October 5, 2009)
When the headlines scream about a bad mother, famous or not, we can't seem to get enough. Those most intent on sucking the marrow out of these kinds of stories are mothers. In this podcast I talk wit…
00:39:59 |
Mon 05 Oct 2009
FC 008: What's Up with Stepmothers? - Guest: Wednesday Martin, Ph.D. (September 7, 2009)
For as long as there have been fairy tales there have been evil stepmothers. Fairy tale nightmares aside, what's it really like to marry a man with children? And why do stepmoms often have such a har…
00:44:28 |
Tue 08 Sep 2009
FC 007: Advocating for your Special Needs Child - Guest: Robert Rummel-Hudson (August 16, 2009)
All kids need parents to advocate for them. Special needs kids need especially loud and pushy parents to go to bat for them at school and help them get what they require to succeed.
In this podcast …
00:51:42 |
Mon 17 Aug 2009
FC 006: My Life Sucks and It's Because I'm too Fat! - Guests: Carol Normandi and Laurelee Roark (July 13, 2009)
We live in a thin-obsessed culture and it's making us eternally unhappy with our bodies and ourselves. As parents we are as affected as our kids by the daily barrage of images and media messages that…
00:44:59 |
Mon 13 Jul 2009
FC 005: When Parents Need Parenting - Guest: B. Lynn Goodwin (June 14, 2009)
Parents give and children take. That's the natural order of things. But sometimes it all gets flipped on its head when aging parents become unable to care for themselves and adult children become car…
00:46:15 |
Sun 14 Jun 2009
FC 004: Want to be Yourself? Go For It! - Guest: Mike Robbins (May 25, 2009)
At one time or another most parents have told their kids: "Don't just go along with the crowd. Think for yourself." We value knowing what's right for ourselves regardless of what other's may think. Y…
00:57:23 |
Mon 25 May 2009
FC 003: Is My Kid the Problem or Is It Me? - Guest: Joan Ryan (May 10, 2009)
Kids make lots of mistakes. And they can usually count on parents to remind them when they're not measuring up. But sometimes, the only thing that isn't measuring up is Mom or Dad's notion of the way…
01:07:20 |
Sun 10 May 2009
FC 002: Who's Leading This Family? - Guest: Jamie Woolf (April 26, 2009)
Who's Leading This Family? A family needs to be a team if it's going to run smoothly. And every team needs a clear leader. Does your family have one? Is the person calling the shots one parent, both …
00:58:18 |
Mon 27 Apr 2009
FC 001: The Gift of Confidence - Guest: Joe Bruzzese (April 19, 2009)
As parents, we all want our kids to succeed, and we want them to grow up up to be self-confident. But sometimes what we say we want is at odds with some of our parenting choices. Especially when it c…
00:47:17 |
Mon 20 Apr 2009
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