Parenting Made Practical Podcast

Grandparents can be a rich blessing, and cause issues to parents. Get some balance and boundaries to bring steadiness and joy to your kids and your relationships.

Are you blindsided by your kid's behaviors? Do you see the warning signs that your kids have gotten off track? See if these warning signs are in your home.

Respect is a lost art, but everyone wants it and kids definitely need it to become successful in life. Learn the many areas showing respect will impact your kids' lives.

There is a HUGE difference between forced authority and guided authority with your kids. Which do you use?

Issues and offense can hurt siblings. But they still need to learn to Love each other to be lifelong friends. Get key ingredients on how to build lasting relationships in this powerful episode.

Training a Self-focused child can be tough. Learn why and how to train them so your family can be more peaceful and united.

When google can't answer your parenting questions, where do you turn? Learn whose advice you can trust and how it can help your parenting.

Learn how to creatively teach your kids lessons that will stick with them to change their behavior vs. a fleeting lesson they don't remember.

Parents are always being drawn into playing referee when kids are not getting along. Learn how to stop refereeing and get your kids to arbitrate their own behaviors and differences.

It's one thing to have kids; it's another to enjoy them, especially when you get frustrated with them. Learn to celebrate each child's uniqueness.

How to stand your ground with your kids when they want something or want to do something you believe they are not ready to handle.

Neighbors and other kids and adults can negatively challenge how you are raising your kids. Get a plan to insulate your kids without isolating them from their friends and adults in their lives.

Kids challenge parent's authority in many sneaky ways that parents often don't catch. Learn these ways and how to deal with them.

Do you get frustrated when your kids say they can't do something that you know they can? Move your kids from the I can't or I won't mindset to I can.

Parents want fun, peace and joy in their family, but it often gets lost in the conflict of parenting. Learn how to reset your family and bring them into unity with one another.

It's not uncommon for a parent to get so exasperated they are ‘done' being a parent. Learn how can you avoid getting to this point in your parenting.

Parents scratch their heads and ask “What is my child doing?” when they do the opposite of what they were told or taught to do. Learn why they do that and practical tips to change this.

Kids are barraged with moral corruption and influences working to compromise the foundation you are building in them. Get GPS coordinates to help guide them and keep them on track.

Glimpse into Joey & Carla's parenting in a Q&A with their daughter Amy. Hear her reflect on how she was raised, and how she is applying that teaching in raising her own child.

Glimpse into Joey & Carla's parenting in a Q&A with their daughter Amy. Hear her reflect on how she was raised, and how she is applying that teaching in raising her own child.

Kids turn parents into pretzels through negotiation. Learn to take your power back by refusing to give in to their constant negotiations that change your family standards.

There are 3 ingredients every child needs to be successful in life. How are your kids developing in them?

Parents need to test their kids just as kids get tested in school. Learn how and when to test your kids in their character so they choose to do right over wrong.“

All Kids are tempted to cheat, in more ways than just their school work. Learn what parents can do with kids who cheat and how to train them not to.

Kids do the same wrong behaviors over and over. But WHY? Discover how parents can help their kids choose right over their wrong desires.

Kindness can be abstract to kids, but if they don't learn to be kind, kids become self-centered, arrogant, and selfish.

Kids can lash out with very hurtful words. But learn why and where this attitude comes from and how to curb this hateful speech and attitude in your kids.

Every parent has to deal with this question. Get some helpful practical coaching to help think this through with and for your kids.

How do you parent when you are shopping or at a friend's house? And, how do you leave your kids with someone else especially an older sibling when they are of age?

Yelling, threatening and reminding kids may feel good, but really does nothing. Learn 5 key things to train kids to become responsible so you don't get frustrated and need to yell, threaten and remind them.

There are so many things parents feel and want to teach their kids. Here you will get 5 foundational teachings that can impact everything you need and want your kids to learn.

It's an Oxymoron to enjoy bad kids, but every parent wants to enjoy their kids. Get some helpful tips to enjoy your kids, as well as how to work on their bad behavior.

Kids can be so ungrateful which stems from their lack of being content with what they have and what you give them. Give your kids the gift of gratefulness and contentment to be happy in life.

Be encouraged listening to Joey & Carla's story about how they live with and through a life threatening auto accident. It has left Carla wheelchair bound, in constant everyday pain & suffering. Learn how to choose to have joy in your tragedies.

Kids can waste so much time! Learn why you need to teach your kids time management, and get practical ideas on how to train your kids to organize their time at different ages so they can have fun and play time.

This phrase kids say when they don't like an outcome or decision you or someone made. Learn why they say it, so you can deal with this challenge to your authority, but also how to drive it from your kid's vocabulary.”

What should a parent do when their kids don't listen to them? Learn practical ways you can get kids to look at you, listen to you, and follow through on what they say they will do.

Kids WILL ask hard & tough questions, but how do you know what to say and not say? How much information do you give them or don't give them, and still keep their trust?

Kids can be so different, and understanding them a challenge. This episode will help you learn what kinds of processor they have, to understand how to communicate with them to teach and train them.

It takes confident parents to raise confident kids. Here are 6 things parents can do to shore up your confidence in your parenting to breed confidence in your kids too.

No matter what kind of school your kids attend, public, private, or homeschool, there are basic rules that parents need to be sure their kids follow to be successful in learning.

It's said, clothes make a man or woman, but what kind of clothes do your kids want to wear, and why? Are they modest or inappropriate, and what are they communicating?

Many kids are bossy or have bossy tendencies. What do parents do with them, and how do parents train them?

Summer is a great time to have fun with your kids, as well as work on some character training issues that can pay dividends when they go back to school.

Home should be a place Daddy wants to come home to, to be dad and enjoy his kids as well as train them. Pick up some tips on enjoying your kids and being dad.

There are a lot of things that can destroy kids' confidence. Joey & Carla list 4 specific ones to help parents build confidence & self- esteem in their kids.

Kids can be and do unbelievable things if they are confident in who God created them to be. Sadly, many kids lack confidence and therefore struggle with self-esteem and having purpose in life.

No parent wants to raise an entitled child with the baggage that comes with that. Learn how parents often fall into this pit without knowing it and ways not to raise an entitled child.

Dating issues can be complex and overwhelming. Get help developing a dating philosophy that works for you and your kids to protect them in their privacy and purity areas while developing a relationship.

It's offensive when kids talk back to a parent or argue and debate with them. Get some practical tips on how parents can change this wrong behavior in your home so you can enjoy talking with your kids again.

It's so frustrating when a parent gives a child an instruction, and the child doesn't do it, either by forgetting, or out of rebellion. We'll share some practical tips on how to train a forgetful child.