Parenting with a Story Podcast

Tell a young person what to do - play fair, be yourself, stick to the task at hand - and most will tune you out. But show them how choices and consequences play out in the real world, with real people, and the impact will be far more effective and long-lasting. Based on interviews with over 100 people from around the world and from all walks of life as they reflect on their most profound and unexpected moments of clarity about who they are and how they should treat others. The lessons help teach 23 powerful character traits that will help your child grow into the adult you'll be proud to call your own. <br /> Character Traits from Parenting with a Story: ambition, open-mindedness, creativity, curiosity & learning, courage, integrity, self-reliance, grit, hard work, self-confidence, money & delayed gratification, health, positive mental attitude, dealing with loss, kindness, patience, fairness & justice, humility, respect for others, friendship, social intelligence, forgiveness & gratitude, appreciation of beauty.

Father Behind “Jordan’s Law” Speaks Out

Imagine having your child filmed getting sucker punched into unconsciousness just to generate a few likes on social media. Here's how you can help stop this gruesome practice.

04-15
28:34

The Spare Room

"Where are you going to sleep tonight?" Those words began Emily Chang's 25-year journey of generosity, offering a spare room to people when they needed it the most.

04-11
26:07

THE App to Help Your Kids Manage a Budget, Track Chores, Earn Their Allowance, and Learn Financial Responsibility

Benny Nachman, CEO of Jassby, joins me to explain how a new APP can both make your home life easier, while teaching your kids about smart money management.

01-28
29:16

How NOT to Treat Your Mother-in-Law this Thanksgiving

This might be the strangest Thanksgiving most of us ever have, due to the Coronavirus. So, to help you make it a good one, here’s a Thanksgiving lesson in humility that will help you make sure your interactions with family this year are ones you’ll be proud of. . .

11-23
05:51

What an 8-Year-Old Learned About Life Working in a Hardware Store During Hurricane Season

Finding out a hurricane is about to bear down on your hometown isn’t the kind of thing most people get excited about, especially when they’re eight years old. But then, most people aren’t like Jayson Zoller.

10-16
04:25

SOCIAL Disobedience: It’s like civil disobedience with your friends and neighbors

The past three weeks have been an almost non-stop parade of protests, all centered around the most recent tragic deaths that didn’t have to happen. “Yes, that’s terrible. But what can I do?” you might ask. After all, you already changed your Facebook profile for BlackOut Day. And you even attended a Black Lives Matter …

06-19
05:46

Meeting Kenny Tedford

I've been wanting to write this post for six years. Seriously. This is the day that I get to start telling the world

11-26
07:21

An Angry Therapist’s Guide to a Meaningful Life

My guest this week is John Kim. He's a licensed marriage and family therapist and one of the the pioneers of the online life coaching movement.

10-17
19:49

What to Know Before They Go (to College)

My guest today is Dr. Pamela Ellis. She conducts research into the areas of high school of college transition

09-18
25:21

Kids, Sex, and Screens: Upping Your Parenting Game

If you're curious whether you should stalk your kids online (spoiler: you should, at least for a while), this is the woman to ask.

08-27
36:54

Montessori Parenting Without a Montessori School

You've no doubt heard that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were educated at Montessori schools and attribute much of their success to that upbringing. The post Montessori Parenting Without a Montessori School appeared first on Paul Smith | Business Storytelling Coach.

04-16
31:48

Teaching Your Kids to Think Critically and Detect C.R.A.P. Online

This week I got a chance to chat with digital literacy educator Diana Graber. Diana is the author of RAISING HUMANS IN A DIGITAL WORLD: Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology The post Teaching Your Kids to Think Critically and Detect C.R.A.P. Online appeared first on Paul Smith | Business Storytelling Coach.

03-06
18:30

Curiosity, and the Invention that Almost Never Happened

One day, nine-year-old James was in the kitchen with his mom's sister. Well, while Auntie was sitting at the table having a cup of tea The post Curiosity, and the Invention that Almost Never Happened appeared first on Paul Smith | Business Storytelling Coach.

01-30
03:25

“Is that really what I need to be happy?”: How one Summer in Bombay Changed Me Forever

Ami Desai Mathur was born in New York, a first-generation natural-born American citizen. Her parents were born in India and immigrated to the United States after getting married. The post “Is that really what I need to be happy?”: How one Summer in Bombay Changed Me Forever appeared first on Paul Smith | Business Storytelling Coach.

11-28
06:12

The Shared Blanket: Life’s Most Important Lesson in a Single Story

Imagine you had to pick a single sentence to encapsulate all of the world’s knowledge about how we humans should behave. What would it be? What one statement could capture several millennia of history’s best thinkers, philosophers, and prophets on the topic of ethics and morality? I think you’d be hard pressed to do better … The post The Shared Blanket: Life’s Most Important Lesson in a Single Story appeared first on Paul Smith | Business Storytelling Coach.

10-30
03:49

Why I Wish I’d Never Bought That Fancy Red Sport Car

Jun-seo’s father loved fine automobiles. He always drove nice cars himself, and went to all the high-performance car shows — a real car aficionado. So Jun-seo grew up with a taste for fine cars himself. Having his own fancy sports car someday was a goal he set for himself at a young age. But buying … The post Why I Wish I’d Never Bought That Fancy Red Sport Car appeared first on Paul Smith | Business Storytelling Coach.

08-30
05:35

The Gift We Love to Receive But Hate to Give

Not too long ago, “ropes” courses were all the rage. Remember those? Outdoor team-building programs where people climb through trees on ropes and ladders. The idea is that going through some hardship together builds camaraderie and team spirit. So learning the value of patience was not what Dave Orewiler expected from his nine-day ropes course [read more] The post The Gift We Love to Receive But Hate to Give appeared first on Paul Smith | Cincinnati, Ohio.

08-02
06:53

How to Build Confidence in New Situations

I think all parents want their kids to have a healthy sense of confidence, especially when they’re going into a new or unfamiliar situation — like attending a new school, or moving to a new neighborhood. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a proven way to do that in exactly those situations? Well, it turns [read more] The post How to Build Confidence in New Situations appeared first on Paul Smith | Cincinnati, Ohio.

07-11
03:49

“What do you care what other people think?”

One of the most prevalent human frailties — one that begins in childhood and stays with us the rest of our lives — is a concern about what other people think of us. To a 10-year-old, it might be what the other kids will think of her new tennis shoes. To a teenage boy, it [read more] The post “What do you care what other people think?” appeared first on Paul Smith | Cincinnati, Ohio.

06-13
05:38

The Problem of Getting Something for Nothing

Thomas Paine once observed, “That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.” If true, that might suggest that something we obtain for free we don’t esteem at all. But so what? Does it really matter if we esteem something too lightly? One person who knows something about that is John Chancellor. Paying for [read more] The post The Problem of Getting Something for Nothing appeared first on Paul Smith | Cincinnati, Ohio.

05-16
05:14

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