Using Work to Avoid Home Life
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Are You Using Work to Avoid Home Life?

Being a father and husband is full of challenges. It’s easier to keep busy with work than wrestle with the day to day issues of family life.

Today’s guest is everyday dad, Jeremy Bennett. He used his career as a firefighter to avoid his home life, until one day he got a wake up call that made him realize that his family needed him for more than just a provider.

How to Raise Resilient Kids
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Hard Love: How to Raise Resilient Kids

Today we have Dad Edge Alliance member Daniel Nolan on the show. He is a self-confessed helicopter parent in recovery and the creator of the Hard Love Project. Helicopter parenting is when we hover over our children to make sure nothing bad happens to them.

We’re all guilty of this at times, but Daniel tells us how to raise resilient kids by challenging them to step out of their comfort zone and exposing them to life. He also talks about how we can design regular emotional, social, and physical challenges for our kids to boost their confidence and independence.

KIDS AND ALLOWANCE
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Kids and Allowance: Money-Smart Habits in Action

In our previous episode, John Lanza, author of The Art of Allowance, shared some ideas about kids and allowance that probably made a lot of us scratch our heads. The ideas may seem crazy at first, but they work in unexpected ways. Listen to what happened when I implemented these money-smart habits with two of my kids.