Cultivating the Virtues
By Jenn Casey & Kelly Elmore
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Podcast Description
A podcast about Objectivism and parenting, with a particular focus on Positive Discipline techniques.
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Podcast #21: When Temperaments Clash! | Check out the line up for our latest thrilling episode! Situation of the Week (Jenn): Mutual Problem-Solving with a Babysitter Topic: When Temperaments Clash! (begins 13:33) Link: Podcast #2: Temperament Q 8 A: Is it effective for parents to play good cop/bad cop with their kids? If so, why? And if not, what do you think the root of parents playing these roles is? (begins 37:49) Links: Books by Barbara Coloroso Kids Are Worth It! : Giving Your Child The Gift Of Inner Discipline and The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to HighSchool--How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle (Updated Edition) As always, thanks for listening, and thanks for your feedback! Email us or send us questions, we'd love to hear from you. Find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #20: Talking about Parenting Ideas with Your Kids | We are happy to bring you yet another exciting episode of Cultivating the Virtues! This episode is a whole lot funnier than the others somehow. . . we laugh a lot. Yay! Situation of the Week (Kelly): "Storming off in a museum because of a pottery disagreement" If you want that to make sense, you have to listen! Topic: Talking about your parenting ideas and principles with your kids (begins 7:05) Link: Parenting Principles at Rational Jenn Q & A: When (if ever) should you intervene with other people's kids in public situations? (begins 24:24) As always, send us feedback and comments, we'd love to hear them! And send us questions, too. (Why none of the links ever work here at Podbean, I truly don't know. Head over to cultivatingthevirtues.blogspot.com for the links!) | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #19: Let’s Talk About Sex | Okay, so we skipped putting out a podcast last week, so we're making up for it by posting a REALLY INTERESTING podcast this time. :D Situation of the Week (Jenn): Teaching kids what to do instead of just fussing at them for making mistakes. Amazing how helpful that is. Links: On Minilectures at Rational Jenn Topic: Talking to your kids about sex (begins 6:02) Links: It's Not the Stork: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends (The Family Library) and It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (The Family Library) (that's the book we couldn't remember the name of) Q & A: What is the best way to deal with rude behavior that is not physically aggressive such as name-calling or sticking your tongue out, particularly in very young children? (begins 31:17) Please send us comments and feedback and give us more questions to answer in future podcasts! And thanks for listening! | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #18: Living an “Adult-Centered” vs a “Child-Centered” Life | Look at that! Three weeks, three podcasts, woohoo! Situation of the Week (Jenn): "If I scream, he wins." (It'll make sense when you listen!) Topic: Living an "Adult-Centered" vs a "Child-Centered" Life (begins 8:48) Link: "Child Friendly without being Child Centered" at Reepicheep's Coracle (Kelly's blog) Q & A: How do you handle a parenting mistake when you realize you were unfair, but your child communicated his displeasure in an unacceptable manner (such as hitting or yelling)? (begins 27:38) Link: "Parenting Toolbox: 3 Rs of Recovery" at Reepicheep's Coracle Enjoy! And please send us questions or email us your comments and feedback. NOTE: I have no clue why the formatting isn't working here at Podbean. But it's fine at our regular blog. Will try to fix soon! | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #17: Brainstorming a Parenting Problem | Yay! Another episode! Please forgive the buzzing in the background; we're trying to figure it out. Situation of the Week: Handling problems among children when some of the children are ignoring another Topic: Brainstorming Parenting Problems--Kelly and Jenn discuss a problem that Kelly is having and come up with some solutions together (begins 6:01) Q & A: What should you do when other people try to force their kids to share or give stuff to your kids? (begins 21:11) We hope you enjoy this episode! Send feedback and comments to cultivatingthevirtues@gmail.com. And send your questions for our Q & A section to our Google Moderator page. | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #16: Our Favorite Books for Kids | Hey there! We're back and recording lots of podcasts this summer, woohoo! Astute listeners will have noticed that we've skipped ahead a bit in our numbering. We have not published podcasts 14 and 15 yet due to some technical issues, but we put them up as soon as we can. Rather than put everything on hold to get those other podcasts up, we decided to forge on ahead and get some new podcasts out there. We trust you won't mind TOO much if the publication goes out of order. The line up this time: Situation of the Week (Kelly): Dealing with a fear that you and your child share, and getting back on the horse! Topic (begins 5:50): Our favorite books for kids (and yes, we'll link them all below) Q & A (begins 30:43): What were some of the factors in our decision to homeschool our children? Thanks for listening! We'd love your feedback at cultivatingthevirtues@gmail.com, and more questions for our Q & A at the Google Moderator page we've set up. Here are the books we discussed in the podcast (the links are through our Amazon Associates account, so we might get a couple of cents if you click through and purchase, so please do!): Babies through PreK Sandra Boynton (Blue Hat Green Hat) Hand Hand Fingers Thumb I Spy Richard Scarry (Cars and Trucks and Things That Go) Byron Barton (Boats, Trains, Planes, Trucks) The Carrot Seed Elementary ages Ox-Cart Man Little House on the Prairie (series and audiobooks) Will's Quill Robert Louis Stevenson poetry (A Child's Garden of Verses) Charlotte's Web Hiawatha If You Give a Pig a Pancake Bob Books Grimm's Fairy Tales James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small Kids of all ages Harry Potter (and audiobooks) Ender's Game D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Geraldine McCaughrean (The Odyssey, Black Ships Before Troy, God's People) Childhood of Famous Americans series Percy Jackson series The Kane Chronicles Narnia series The Lord of the Rings The Hobbit By no means an exhaustive list! Do you have any to add? Leave them in the comments! :D | 7/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SnowCon Preview! | As you may know, Kelly and Jenn will be giving a talk at Front Range Objectivism's SnowCon on March 12. We recorded a mini-podcast as a preview of our talk "Effective Communication: How Objectivists can Use Positive Discipline Tools in their Adult Relationships." We will be giving this talk at ATLOSCon, too. Give it a listen! And we hope to see you at SnowCon! | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 13: A Glimpse Into the Relationships of Parents and Their Young Adult Children | We're pleased to present the 13th episode at long last! Please know that we are aware of some technical issues--Kelly has a lot of static on her mic, but believe us when we say that it was much worse before Brendan got a hold of the files! Please bear with us while we work through some of these issues (which will likely exist on the next podcast, too, since we recorded them at the same time). Situation of the Week (Jenn): Helping a toddler cope with fears and enjoying his self-awareness Topic: A view of what it's like to be the parent of a young adult (begins 7:06) Q & A: Does parenting involve sacrifice? (begins 20:09) As always, feel free to send questions, suggestions, and critiques to cultivatingthevirtues@gmail.com. And we have a new place for you to send questions for future podcasts: check out our Google Moderator page. Please add your own questions and vote for existing questions that you like. | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #12: The Nature of Children | And we're back! Our longish break from publishing podcasts was mostly unintentional, though once it became clear we would be taking some time off, I suppose we could have written a post to let everyone know. Basically, we just got busy pursuing other values in our lives--grad school, homeschool, vacations, etc. But we missed podcasting, and we have more coming soon, hopefully on a semi-regular basis. Yay! The Line Up Situation of the Week (Jenn): How Jenn handled an ongoing issue with kids not cooperating and being rude (it has to do with going to the pool, so you can tell this was recorded in the summer!) Topic: The Nature of Children (begins 8:59) Q 8 A: When did we start using PD with our kids? (begins 32:39) Most of what we discuss in the Topic section is based on a post written by Kelly called "The Nature of Children." So don't miss that post! Thanks for listening! | 11/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #11: Money | At long last, we are happy to present our 11th podcast! We are grateful for the feedback we received from our listeners about the technical issues with the last podcast. Hopefully this one sounds a little better--Brendan turned the sound way up, so we're hoping that will solve at least some of the problem. We didn't test it on an iPod (because we're currently on vacation!), but I think we'll start this testing as part of our production process. If you have feedback about the podcast--technical or content or otherwise!--please drop us a line at cultivatingthevirtues@gmail.com. Our line up this time is: Situation of the Week (Kelly): Dealing with the jealous feelings of her child when she (Kelly) pays attention to other children Topic: Money (begins 8:00) Q & A: How did your relationships with other adults change after the arrival of children? (begins 29:34) Thanks for listening! We'd love your comments and feedback and questions! | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #10: Toddlers | Welcome back and as always, thanks for listening! In this episode: Situation of the Week (Kelly): Negotiating with a child about an unfair situation and trying to meet everyone's needs Topic: Toddlers, part 1 (begins 7:33) Q8A: Do you interact differently with your kids in public? (begins 28:20) Yes, this is a long one! We got rather carried away with toddlers, and will be posting part 2 as part of another podcast. Here's the book we tried and failed to recall the title of during the Toddlers section, The Aware Baby: Enjoy, and please let us know how we're doing! | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #9: Positive Discipline Tool Cards | Okay, so I lied about having a new process for recording the podcasts beginning with Podcast 9. Stay tuned for THAT on Podcast 11! :o Here's the line up: Situation of the Week (Jenn): Dealing with a major potty regression Topic: Positive Discipline Tool Cards (begins 7:00) Q8A: What is the difference between Natural and Logical Consequences? (begins 22:02) Thanks, as always, for listening! Send us your feedback: cultivatingthevirtues@gmail.com. And join our Facebook Fan Page! | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #8: Praise versus Encouragement | And we're back, after our somewhat longish break! We intend to get back on a more frequent publishing basis for a little while. Our lineup this time: Situation of the Week (Jenn): Mom Keeping her Temper FTW! (Decide What You Will Do Positive Discipline Tool Card) Topic: Praise versus Encouragement (begins 5:35) Q8A: Uncles and Aunts (begins 18:44) Technical note: Podcast 8 was the last one we recorded using Audacity on a PC (which we then transferred into GarageBand for editing on the Mac). Beginning with Podcast 9, we recorded directly into GarageBand, and we're hoping that will improve some of the buzzing I keep hearing. At the very least, it will be easier for editing, and Brendan is going to teach Kelly and me how to do more the editing ourselves. Which may--or may not--result in more frequent posting. | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #7: Siblings | This episode is our most FUN podcast to date (in my--Jenn's--humble). This time we have: Situation of the Week (Kelly): A reminder to give gentle feedback to children Topic: Siblings (begins 4:26) Q 8 A: Negotiating with a child--what to do if the child doesn't hold up his end of the bargain (begins 21:07) Here's a link to the book we mentioned at the end of the section on Siblings--SO highly recommended: I think that Podcast #7 is where we started to get our stride. It's fun, and enjoyable, and I hope you like it, too! In other exciting podcasting news: You can now find us on iTunes! We feel like real-live grownup podcasters now! (Thanks so much to Diana and Andrew M. for your assistance with this process!) I will add this podcast shortly, as soon as I can figure out how, but the first six episodes are up. We'd really appreciate you taking the time to visit us on iTunes and rating our podcast. As always, thanks for listening, and please continue to send us comments, questions, and feedback to cultivatingthevirtues@gmail.com. | 6/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #6: The Trader Principle | This week's topic is The Trader Principle! Situation of the Week (Kelly): Helping a child manage her frustrations Topic: The Trader Principle (begins at 5:51) Q8A: Toothbrushing Tactics (begins at 17:07) Thanks for listening! This podcast marks the end of our first group of recordings. We made a couple of changes beginning with Podcast #7. I hope the technical changes will not be apparent, or at least improve the listening experience. And next time we'll have our first question for the Q8A that came to us after we started podcasting. Enjoy this week's podcast, and help us spread the word! As always, send us email at cultivatingthevirtues@gmail.com. We'd love some constructive feedback, and of course, questions for our Q8A or topic suggestions. | 6/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #5: Free Range Parenting | Our busy lives have prevented us from getting this podcast up before today, but we trust you'll understand. :o) This week, we have: Situation of the Week (Jenn): Dealing with pointless bickering Topic: Free Range Parenting (begins 4:26) Q8A: Childhood Fears (begins 18:45) One thing we forgot to do was mention Lenore Skenazy by name! (Lenore, should you ever happen upon this post and podcast, sorry!) She is the woman who kicked off the Free Range Kids movement (is it a movement?). Her website is: http://freerangekids.com. Her book is called Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry). We also talked about a wonderful book by Gavin De Becker, which has great common sense ideas for teaching kids to be safety-conscious (without freaking them out unnecessarily). His book is called Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane). Hopefully we'll get back to our approximately once-a-week podcast schedule! Thanks for your patience. Also, keep your questions coming! Email us at cultivatingthevirtues@gmail.com. | 5/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #4: Independence | This week's podcast features a discussion on the virtue of Independence and how parents can encourage independence of thought and action in children. Here's the lineup: Situation of the Week (Kelly): Handling conflict with a child/choosing battles Topic: Independence (begins 5:30) Q8A: What are some ways to deal with kids interrupting? (begins 19:06) As always, please leave us some feedback in the comments (here or at our main blog, Cultivating the Virtues), or email us at cultivatingthevirtues@gmail.com. I'm happy that we have finally streamlined our production process (all thanks to Brendan!) and it's taking much less time for us to edit the raw podcast files. And starting with our next recording session (beginning with Podcast #9, as the first 8 have already been recorded), our process will become easier and quicker because we'll have access to a Mac laptop. Hoo. Ray. Many of our listeners have requested that we produce the podcast in iTunes format, and that is definitely on our list of things to do! We'll make an announcement as soon as we get to that. In the meantime, thanks for listening and thanks for your patience! :o) | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #3: Why Non-Punitive Discipline? | And this process is becoming slightly easier! Hooray! A million thanks to Brendan for his work. We had a few technical wrinkles to smooth over (hopefully the final wrinkles), so this week's podcast is a little simpler in production. Situation of the Week (Jenn): A child models correct behavior for another child, FTW! Topic: Why Non-Punitive Discipline/The Ambassador Analogy (begins 3:42) Q8A: Celebrating Holidays as non-religious parents (begins 12:55) We hope you enjoy! See you next week! | 5/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #2: Temperament | Here's the second podcast! Woohoo! The format for this time is: Situation of the Week (by Kelly) Topic: Temperament (begins around 4:54) Q8A (begins around 28:17) Yes, we went REALLY long on our topic, partly because it's a favorite one of ours, and partly because we forgot to watch our time! (Chalk that second reason up to our learning curve). Brendan did an absolutely AMAZING job of editing our podcast! He fixed the extreme left-right-stereo problem (which couldn't have been avoided for the first podcast due to some of the technical problems we had recording the first podcast). But it sounds MUCH better. He also made our music sound fancy, and don't miss the section with Morgan, Ryan, and Livy, just before the Q8A begins! We know that our sounds are still very poppy (hard P sounds, for instance), but we changed the position of the microphones beginning with the third podcast, so hopefully you'll find that this is less noticeable beginning next time. Our plan for now is to release a podcast about once a week, usually on a Monday or Tuesday. So check back next week for Podcast #3! | 4/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #1 Welcome to Cultivating the Virtues! | After many, MANY stops and starts, corrupted files, and just general fussing with it, we are proud to present our very first podcast! We have a few more in the queue, and we are hoping that now that we have finished cruising around this learning curve, getting those podcasts up and published will be somewhat easier and less time-consuming! There are parts that are a little choppy, and mostly that's because we couldn't recover a few bits of files here and there. We trust you will be understanding. We couldn't have done this without the Herculean efforts of Brendan Casey, who patiently resurrected corrupted files and tinkered with the sound levels and made this podcast sound so very nice. Thanks. :o) | 4/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Funny and helpful
I've only listened to a few episodes but have already learned a few great strategies for dealing with my kid and others' kids. Jenn and Kelly have a good sensibility about them that makes them easy to listen to and understand. Also helpful is the fact that they have tons of great stories and anecdotes regarding their own family to help demonstrate how they apply, or could apply, the lessons they're sharing.
Love It
Endlessly useful!
Clutter
This is a very silly podcast by two young women who have no meaningful track record to indicate the value of their opinions. I guess if you're specifically looking for ideas about how to apply objectivism to parenting, you might find this interesting; but if you're looking for sound advice about child rearing, you'd do much better to ask a grandma who's actually finished raising a child or two.
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