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The Practical Family Podcast is hosted by Jennifer Bryant and Tom and Jen Catanzaro. As former teachers and homeschool parents, Tom and the Jens offer practical guidance and faith-based approaches to family life and communication. The Practical Family Podcast is a show by parents, for parents, a collaborative team from different family structures, bringing you diverse voices and experiences from a Christian perspective.
Jenn Bryant shares her family's journey of change and growth, including a trip to Iceland and joining Speech and Debate. New voices join the Practical Family Podcast, including the Catanzaro family, Trisha Childers, and other friends. Jenn discusses the expansion of Family Life's offerings, including more courses and ebooks, and a new podcast dedicated to emotional and spiritual support for mothers. The Enough Mom Podcast will address common struggles and emotional overwhelm faced by moms, with a focus on practical and spiritual discipleship. Practical advice for families in new podcast series coming called Loved Enough.
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The loss of a child comes in many forms. There is hope and support for grieving mothers, and the community that surrounds her. Rachel shows us how to be helpful and compassionate with our loved ones.
BIO
Rachel Lewis is the founder of Brave Mamas, an online community offering support to
thousands of bereaved moms. Rachel is a well-known contributor to Still Standing
Magazine and Pregnancy After Loss Support. She’s the creator of Unexpecting: A 4-Week Grief Workshop for Pregnancy Loss for couples.
Her work and family have been featured by the Today Show, Upworthy, AdoptUSKids, and Babble. Rachel has experienced the loss of five pregnancies, as well as the unique grief of reunifying a foster son with his birth family. Learn more at thelewisnote.com.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss
How to Help a Loved One through Baby Loss
Jonathan McKee gives parents practical tools on how to approach technology with wisdom and grace instead of constant correction.
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Parenting Generation Screen: Guiding Your Kids to be Wise in a Digital World
Guy’s Guide to God, Girls, and the Phone in their Pocket
BIO
Jonathan McKee is the author of more than twenty-five books, including Teen’s Guide to Face-to-Face Connections in a Screen-to-Screen World; If I Had a Parenting Do Over; and the Amazon bestseller – The Guy’s Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide, all while providing free resources for moms and dads on his website becomingscreenwise.com.
20+ years of experience with youth ministry and family research has taught him that parents need to connect with their kids just as much as they correct their kids— it’s the safe, loving conversations about screen use that will set kids up for a lifetime of good decisions and habits.
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What the link between family schedules and life expectancy tells us about teaching kids to be resilient adults.
BIO
Dr. Rhonda Spencer-Hwang is an epidemiologist and associate professor in the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University. Through her groundbreaking research, she has developed a program to help prepare families for whatever life throws their way—increasing resiliency, happiness, and likelihood of positive performances (from academics to athletics and beyond). She is a mom of three and lives in Loma Linda, California.
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Book: Releases August 3, 2021
Philippians 4:6 - Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Do you have what it takes to be a homeschool mom? Yes! We’re busting the myth that you have to do it all to be effective.
BIO
Katie M. Reid has been married to Adam for almost eighteen years, and is the mother of five loud children (ages threww to fifteen). Besides Jesus and her family, cut-to-the-chase conversations and musicals are a few of her favorite things. Katie encourages others to exchange try-hard striving for hope-filled freedom through her messages, articles, songs, and resources. She is a trained bible study facilitator and author of the book, Made Like Martha: Good News for the Woman Who Gets Things Done.
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Episode 042 | Grace for the Woman Who Gets Things Done
Sacred Grounds, Sticky Floors by Jamie Amerine
How knowing your “why” is fuel for homeschooling and how to encourage characteristics of the heart that you can’t measure with a grade.
BIO
Wife of a hospital physician and mama of four boys, Monica Swanson lives on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. They grow tropical fruits on their land that overlooks the “7 Mile Miracle” spot of some of the best surfing beaches in the world. She homeschools all of the boys, and just launched the oldest off to college in California. Her book Boy Mom: What Your Son Needs Most From You is a widely-read and acclaimed book among Christian boy moms across the nation.
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Today’s culture is defined by amorality, dishonesty, and discontentment. As a Christian parent, you want your children to reject these norms in favor of values like integrity, wisdom, and forgiveness. But how can you train them to do this when you’re still falling short yourself?
Author, speaker, and Moms in Prayer podcast host Lee Nienhuis offers guidance to every parent seeking to raise Jesus-following kids.
BIO
Lee is a farmer’s wife (turned camp coordinator), and midwestern mama. She is the host of the Moms in Prayer Podcast and author of Counter Cultural Parenting: Building Character in a World of Compromise.
QUOTES
“Home needs to be a place where it’s okay to fail and come back again. Home is our laboratory.”
“We’ve never lived in such a connected world. It can be really scary, but it can also be really pioneering.”
“The work of rebuilding our society starts in our own home.”
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Our Restaurant: South Shore Grill, Honolulu Hawaii
Sandrine Nyembo Tucker shares her incredible testimony about fleeing her home country torn by civil war, and her journey of faith in overcoming shame and rejection.
BIO
Sandrine Nyembo Tucker, Christian speaker and homeschool mama to six children. She and her husband and family live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where she shares her family journey on Facebook and Instagram, offering hope to women everywhere who want to flourish in their current season.
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Classical Conversations Curriculum
When we recognize the root of our feelings, family life can be more manageable for everyone involved. Help your kids deal with their big feelings and set yourself free from extra guilt and shame.
BIO
Michelle Nietert MA, LPC–S is an author and speaker and Clinical Director of Community Counseling Associates in Dallas, TX. She's a former educator and school counselor with over 20 years of experience in private practice treating individuals, couples, children and teens. Michelle's writing can be found on the MOPS blog, in Lifeway's Parenting Magazine and she is the Mental Health columnist for Just Between Us Magazine. To discover more about Michelle as Your Mental Health Coach, the Raising Brave Beauties podcast, and her energetic speaking expertise that empowers and inspires, please visit www.MichelleNietert.com.
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"Emotion is energy in motion, and depending on how you’re wired, it’s easy to catch that emotion." -Michelle Nietert
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Loved and Cherished Devotional
Raising Brave Beauties Podcast
Untangled: Guiding Teenaged Girls through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
Homeschool mama of 20 years and counting, Susan Seay brings practical wisdom to moms in the thick of home education and home management. She is a mentor, life coach, and international author and speaker.
QUOTES
“As a family, we work together. We mess it up, we fix it together.”
“Stop taking everything on as a badge or an expression of your worth as a mom.”
“A bad moment does not make you a bad mom.”
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The Intentional Parent: Parenting on Purpose When Life Gets Busy
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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
