Podcasts about not quite ruining your child

Sometimes we need to stop trying so hard for things to get easier. We asked our listeners: where's an area of your parenting where you got better results by doing less?  In this episode we discuss our listeners' best advice on how to parent more lightly by caring less about our children's: homework potty training outfits palates basic hygiene birthday parties We also talk “bare minimum parenting” in its many forms with guest James Breakwell, author of Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child. James says bare minimum parenting isn't about the number of kids you have: “Two children aren't twice as much work as one. If you're already yelling at the first kid, just add the name of the second kid at the end.” For James, bare minimum parenting is about playing the long game. Can you look around at a group of adults and pick out which ones had baby massage or language-immersion preschool? Okay, sometimes they're dead ringers. But most of the time you can't, and we think James's new book is slyly revolutionary in the way it enables all of us to do less, worry less, and get our kids to pretty much the same place in the end. In other words, Bare Minimum Parenting doesn't have to mean no rules. It can mean basic rules that work for your family. But those rules aren't set by the family next door, or that clickbait-y guilt-inducing article you just read. And when the rules don't work? Put them aside for a bit. No regrets. ICYMI: in this episode Margaret mentions this slackline as her key to bare minimum backyard fun— her kids play on it for hours. Here's where you can find James: Buy James's book: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9781982599294 @XplodingUnicorn on Twitter @ExplodingUnicorn on Facebook We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the lead-up to Father's Day, Justin is talking to some of the most interesting dads around!Today on the podcast we hear from James Breakwell who is a comedy writer, dad to four daughters, and tweets to his 1 million plus followers on Twitter under the handle of @XplodingUnicorn.Topics discussed on this podcast: Seeing the funny side of parenting James' parenting style What his kids think of his internet career Follow James' on Twitter here or sign up for his newsletter and check out the Exploding Unicorn podcast here.You can find James' books, including Bare Minimum Parenting (The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child) on Booktopia.Find the 'Dadding Done Right Webinar' at the Happy Families Shop, or in your Happy Families Premium Membership.Find us on Facebook at Dr Justin Coulson's Happy FamiliesEmail us your questions and comments at podcasts@happyfamilies.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the lead-up to Father's Day, Justin is talking to some of the most interesting dads around! Today on the podcast we hear from James Breakwell who is a comedy writer, dad to four daughters, and tweets to his 1 million plus followers on Twitter under the handle of @XplodingUnicorn. Topics discussed on this podcast: Seeing the funny side of parenting James' parenting style What his kids think of his internet career Follow James' on Twitter here or sign up for his newsletter and check out the Exploding Unicorn podcast here. You can find James' books, including Bare Minimum Parenting (The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child) on Booktopia. Find the 'Dadding Done Right Webinar' at the Happy Families Shop, or in your Happy Families Premium Membership. Find us on Facebook at Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families Email us your questions and comments at podcasts@happyfamilies.com.au

Today on the Dads with Daughters Podcast we spoke with  professional comedy writer and amateur father of four girls, ages eight and under, James Breakwell.  We talk today about his own experiences as a father but also about his brand new book How to Be a Man: Whatever That Means. About James Breakwell James Breakwell is a professional comedy writer and amateur father of four girls, ages eight and under. He is best known for his family humor Twitter account @XplodingUnicorn, which boasts more than a million followers. The account went viral In April 2016 and transformed James from a niche comedy writer into one of the most popular dads on social media. James writes more than just family jokes. His Star Wars parody account @VeryLonelyLuke went viral in December 2015 and now has nearly 350,000 followers. Combined with James’ verified Facebook page, Instagram account, and other various comedy Twitter accounts, James has a total reach of more than 1.5 million followers. He also reaches thousands of daily readers through his three webcomics, Unbelievably Bad, Unfridgeworthy, and Wombat Dojo. James has published two books, with several more planned for release in coming years. Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse offered useful advice for how to raise happy, healthy children in a world overrun by the undead. Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child taught regular moms and dads to best overachieving parents by doing less. How to Save Your Child from Ostrich Attacks, Accidental Time Travel, and Anything Else that Might Happen on an Average Tuesday, another comedy parenting guide, is scheduled to hit stores in November 2019. Prance Like Nobody’s Watching: How to Live Like an Exploding Unicorn, a guided journal for kids, is scheduled for release in early 2020. If you've enjoyed today's episode of the Dads With Daughters podcast we invite you to check out the Fatherhood Insider. The Fatherhood Insider is the essential resource for any dad that wants to be the best dad that he can be. We know that no child comes with an instruction manual and most are figuring it out as they go along. The Fatherhood Insider is full of valuable resources and information that will up your game on fatherhood. Through our extensive course library, an interactive forum, step-by-step roadmaps, and more you will engage and learn with experts but more importantly with dads like you. So check it out today!

Comedian Ray Romano once noted that "having children is like living in a frat house — nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up."   As just about everyone listening to this right now knows, being a parent is one of the hardest things you'll ever do. Sure, it's also the most wonderful, joyous, meaningful thing you'll ever do—but it's no cakewalk.   That's why it really is so important to be able to look at the craziness of raising kids—yes, including the vomit everywhere—and somehow find the humor in it all.   That's the superpower of my guest today, James Breakwell. James is a professional comedy writer and self-described “amateur parent” of four girls, aged 8 and under. His parenting humor twitter account @XplodingUnicorn boasts over 1 million followers. Because of the way the social media world works, you may or may not recognize that account name, but I guarantee you've seen his writings if you're on social media.   James's online writing, most commonly taking the form of conversations between himself and one of his kids, deftly brings to life the innocence and absurdity of living in a house with tiny people whose understanding of the world is tenuous at best. But he does it in a way that I really appreciate and that makes him stand out from so many other parenting humorists—by respecting and marveling at his kids along the way.   He is the author of three books, including Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child, and his newest book—How to Save Your Child from Ostrich Attacks, Accidental Time Travel, and Anything Else that Might Happen on an Average Tuesday.   This was a conversation that I really think you're going to enjoy. If you do, and you want to share this episode by sharing the link drstevesilvestro.com/108 , neither James nor I will be offended!

James Breakwell - full-time comedian/author and part-time dad of four talks about his book: Bare Minimum Parenting- the Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child.

In this week’s episode, Kim and Alice share a few last November new books, then jump into a holiday gift guide with recommendations for history buffs, video gamers, wine aficionados, nature lovers and more. This week’s episode of For Real is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Homer and the Holiday Miracle by Gwen Cooper, and Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child by James Breakwell. Follow Up The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart New Books Stranger’s Pose by Emmanuel Iduma The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong Seduction by Karina Longworth We the People by Erwin Chemerinsky Becoming by Michelle Obama Holiday Recommendation Guide: Reader Requests Population 485 by Michael Perry Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman Goodbye-to All That by Robert Graves Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger The Lost City of Z by David Grann Skyjack by Geoffrey Gray Salt, Fat, Acid and Heat by Samin Nosrat The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi Holiday Recommendation Guide: General Recommendations Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker Tasting the Past by Kevin Begos The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf The Game Console by Evan Amos Console Wars by Blake J. Harris Extra Lives by Tom Bissell Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman Bibliophile by Jane Mount of Ideal Bookshelf Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch Writer’s Under Surveillance Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown The Family Gene by Joselin Linder Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge Reading Now No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Co-hosts David Harsanyi and Mollie Hemingway interview author and humor writer James Breakwell on his new book, "Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child." They discuss how to turn your child into a functional adult without the stress or pressure manufactured by helicopter parents today. As usual, stick around for the third segment where Mollie and David discuss their recent music and television finds.

James Breakwell, Twitter celebrity, Indiana father of four daughters, and author of Bare Minimum Parenting – The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child, discusses raising children in today’s world. He and Bridget cover “drone parenting”, screen time and social media, keeping your perspective on parenting and ignoring the shamers, and why wanting your kid to go to Harvard is basically a euphemism for wanting them to make the most money. They also discuss treating Twitter like a job, how “overnight success” is really the result of at least ten years of slogging, and why saying “let’s cut parents some slack,” is a radical message in this day and age, but it shouldn’t be. You can find James on Twitter @XplodingUnicorn.

James Breakwell, Twitter celebrity, Indiana father of four daughters, and author of Bare Minimum Parenting – The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child, discusses raising children in today’s world. He and Bridget cover “drone parenting”, screen time and social media, keeping your perspective on parenting and ignoring the shamers, and why wanting your […]Sponsored by Follain Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-bridget-phetasy/james-breakwell-on-why-he-can-do-better-but-hes-not-going-to/.Now become a Ricochet member for only $5.00 a month! Join and see what you’ve been missing: https://ricochet.com/membership/.Subscribe to Walk-Ins Welcome w/ Bridget Phetasy in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.

Sometimes we need to stop trying so hard for things to get easier. We asked our listeners: where’s an area of your parenting where you got better results by doing less? And as usual you all came through! In this episode we discuss your best advice on how to parent more lightly by caring less about our children’s homework potty training outfits palates basic hygiene birthday parties and have happier homes as a result. We also talk “bare minimum parenting” in its many forms with guest James Breakwell, author of the hilarious new book Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child. James says bare minimum parenting isn’t about the number of kids you have: “Two children aren’t twice as much work as one. If you’re already yelling at the first kid, just add the name of the second kid at the end.” For James, bare minimum parenting is about playing the long game. Can you look around at a group of adults and pick out which ones had baby massage or language-immersion preschool? Okay, sometimes they’re dead ringers. But most of the time you can’t, and we think James’s new book is slyly revolutionary in the way it enables all of us to do less, worry less, and get our kids to pretty much the same place in the end. In other words, Bare Minimum Parenting doesn’t have to mean no rules. It can mean basic rules that work for your family. But those rules aren’t set by the family next door, or that clickbait-y guilt-inducing article you just read. And when the rules don’t work? Put them aside for a bit. No regrets. ICYMI: in this episode Margaret mentions this slackline as her key to bare minimum backyard fun— her kids play on it for hours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part Two of this file the prolific pro comedy writer, author, and amateur parenting expert, James Breakwell, took a timeout to rap with me about @XplodingUnicorn and his rise to viral Twitter fame, how he juggles multiple writing projects, his family and his sanity, and the writer as entrepreneur. In the early days of his writing career James told me that he knew he wouldn’t score a book deal sending out query letters or tossing his ideas over the transom, so he decided to build an online following for his unique, self-effacing comedy. Finding inspiration in his family of four girls all under the age of eight, he turned his attentions to blogging, web comics, podcasting, and family humor on Twitter where he eventually found viral fame. In 2016 Buzzfeed dubbed him “The Funniest Dad On Twitter” and shortly thereafter his audience grew … in a big way. He has been featured on media outlets around the world, has attracted over a million followers on social media, has signed multiple book deals, and even writes a column for a newspaper. His second book, Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child, comes out November 6th, 2018, and is “… a book about doing as little as possible without quite ruining your child.” New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins said, “… Parents! Read this book and free yourself from the blood sport that parenting has become!” And bestselling author Liliana Hart wrote, “Breakwell has a hit … uproariously funny, and at times, unexpectedly poignant.” Join us for this two-part interview. If you missed the first half you can find it here. If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. In Part Two of the file James Breakwell and I discuss: How he balances his work and family life The author’s unique workflow and process How his humor builds on real-life experiences The difference between comedy and non-fiction The conundrum of internet fame And why writers have to like what they’re writing to succeed over the long haul The Show Notes: How Professional Comedy Writer & Author James Breakwell Writes: Part One Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child – James Breakwell @XplodingUnicorn, James Breakwell on Twitter Exploding Unicorn on Facebook James Breakwell on Instagram This Guy With Four Daughters Just Might Be The Funniest Dad On Twitter – BuzzFeed Podcast: Wrong & Wronger – Steve Olivas & James Breakwell Podcast: 10 Minutes to Save Your Marriage – Steve Olivas & James Breakwell Kelton Reid on Twitter

James Breakwell, author of Only Dead on the Inside, returns to the show to talk about his new book Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child (out Nov. 6 from BenBella Books). To learn more about James Breakwell, visit his official website, like his Facebook page, or follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Also listen to Sean’s last interview with the author. Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and OneRoom.

Prolific pro comedy writer, author, and amateur parenting expert, James Breakwell, took a timeout to rap with me about @XplodingUnicorn and his rise to viral Twitter fame, how he juggles multiple writing projects, his family and his sanity, and the writer as entrepreneur. In the early days of his writing career James told me that he knew he wouldn’t score a book deal sending out query letters or tossing his ideas over the transom, so he decided to build an online following for his unique, self-effacing comedy. Finding inspiration in his family of four girls all under the age of eight, he turned his attentions to blogging, web comics, podcasting, and family humor on Twitter where he eventually found viral fame. In 2016 Buzzfeed dubbed him “The Funniest Dad On Twitter” and shortly thereafter his audience grew … in a big way. He has been featured on media outlets around the world, has attracted over a million followers on social media, has signed multiple book deals, and even writes a column for a newspaper. His second book, Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child, comes out November 6th, 2018, and is “… a book about doing as little as possible without quite ruining your child.” New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins said, “… Parents! Read this book and free yourself from the blood sport that parenting has become!” And bestselling author Liliana Hart wrote, “Breakwell has a hit … uproariously funny, and at times, unexpectedly poignant.” Join us for this two-part interview. If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. In Part One of the file James Breakwell and I discussed: The irony of the 10-year overnight success Why James hated journalism right out of college Why it’s better to practice your art in public How to be so good they can’t ignore you Why comedy writers need an audience to improve And the author’s unique process for writing 10,000 words in a day  The Show Notes: How Professional Comedy Writer & Author James Breakwell Writes: Part Two Here’s where you can get the details for the copywriting course Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child – James Breakwell @XplodingUnicorn, James Breakwell on Twitter Exploding Unicorn on Facebook James Breakwell on Instagram This Guy With Four Daughters Just Might Be The Funniest Dad On Twitter – BuzzFeed Podcast: Wrong & Wronger – Steve Olivas & James Breakwell Podcast: 10 Minutes to Save Your Marriage – Steve Olivas & James Breakwell Kelton Reid on Twitter

James Breakwell, Twitter Superstar and comedy writer behind @XplodingUnicorn, joins us to talk about his new book, "Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child."

In this episode, we hear from: a comedy writer, social media powerhouse (100k on Instagram, 1Million on Twitter, nearly 300k on Facebook), podcaster, author, webcomic creator, amateur father of four daughters all under 10 years old… so you KNOW he's a storyteller. James Breakwell is the man behind “Exploding Unicorn.”He's also writer of two books, Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse and the upcoming (November 2018 release) Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child.Since becoming internet famous, James has been profiled by USA Today, US Weekly, The Daily Mail, Metro, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Better Homes and Gardens, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Upworthy, The Chive, Bored Panda, 9gag, College Humor, various ABC and Fox TV news affiliates, and countless other TV, radio, and internet outlets. Pictures of his smiling girls have been displayed in newspapers as far away as India. His articles have appeared in Reader's Digest, The Federalist, and AskMen. He writes a bi-monthly newspaper column for the IndyStar and has been a guest multiple times on HLN's The Daily Share.Social media is the platform James has used to build an audience for his writing. His insight is inspirational.“I'm really lucky that my hobby and my passion actually help people. I'm not necessarily a good person, it just happens that my hobby does help people. It's just a fortunate side effect. I'm lucky the side effect isn't smog or pollution.” - James Breakwell

Parenting is a stressful business - but does it need to be as stressful as we often make it?The short answer is no, it REALLY doesn't.In this episode, Steve and Rich talk to James Breakwell, the man behind the phenomenally successful Twitter account @XplodingUnicorn. James now has more then ONE MILLION followers keeping tabs on his posts about being a dad to four young girls in Indianapolis, USA.And it's James' extremely 'laid back' approach to parenting which has made him so popular that his new book, Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child, is set to be a huge hit. Take a listen to the Skype chat the guys had with James and you will soon see that a) you don't need to worry so much about your parenting b) all dads are essentially narcissists and c) lazy parents rock. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy