Parenting Made Practical Podcast: Recent Episodes
Joey and Carla Link
Get practical biblical answers and coaching from Parent Educators Joey and Carla Link on everyday issues parents face when they need to deal with their kid’s bad attitudes and behavior. You will learn to teach your kids to be obedient, respectful and responsible in today’s challenging world.
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 adult relationships.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Parents want a good relationship with their kids, and kids want a good relationship with their parents. But what does it take, and what do parents need to teach their kids, to have a good relationship with each other?
Kids are confronted with making right and wrong choices all the time to where they are tempted to lie, deceive to compromise their integrity. Get insight on how to train kids to be honest and choose right over wrong choices.
We say love is the glue to hold a marriage together. Discover the undergirding foundation that every relationship needs to make you best friends to work together to raise kids.
It’s always a question if parents are punishing too much or too little. Get some answers in this episode to help you find out!
What could a new year with your kids be like? Learn 4 key qualities every parent needs to raise their kids in, just like Mary & Joseph raised Jesus in when he was a teen.
Christmas can be so busy and commercialized, how do we celebrate Jesus birth or teach our kids about the real meaning of Christmas? Get some fresh tips for kids of all ages to make Jesus birth and the Christmas season special for your whole family.
Every Christian parent wants their child to grow up to believe in God, but 80% of kids don’t! Learn practical ways to help your kids grow in their faith and be in the 20% that stick with Jesus.
Do you find the good teaching and training you give your kids erodes and doesn’t lodge in their heads and then their hearts? Discover why this happens, and what parents can do to change this.
Parents get frustrated when they can’t get a slow dawdling child to move at the parents speed. This episode gives parents a plan and strategy to motivate their phlegmatic child to accomplish what they need to do when it needs to be done.
Kids make choices every day. Some good, some bad. How can parents help kids learn to make good and wise, right over wrong choices vs. bad ones that will get them in trouble?
We all have blind spots when it comes to parenting. Who do you trust to point these out to you? Joey & Carla share how to choose a parenting mentor and 4 areas often overlooked by parents they should be training their kids in.
A cog is something that interacts with something else to make it work. Your kids should show respect for parents, elders, property just to name a few. When they have the opportunity to do so, does their “respect cog” interact with what you have taught them to show respect to even if others aren’t? Joey & Carla share 4 ways to keep your child’s respect cog functioning properly.
Parents get frustrated when kids say they are sorry and 5 minutes later do the do the same thing again. Learn why kids do this and what parents can do to get their kids to stop doing the wrong they say they are sorry for.
What do you do when you are trying to teach your kids they need to be patient and kind with a willingness to help others, starting with their siblings and they aren’t paying attention? They are not teachable and they just don't care about what you think they need to learn. Get encouraged with fresh ideas on how to work with your child to open his/her heart and mind to your instruction so he/she will discover for himself the freedom that comes with obedience.
It’s normal for life to get so busy that you lose focus on parenting and raising your kids. Get 10 key principals to evaluate the things and activities that can take your time away from the relationships that are most important to you.
Summer time should be a lot of fun for you and your kids. But it’s also a time when many parents slide into being threatening and repeating parents. Learn how to have fun with your kids AND keep your kids responsible at the same time.
Kids can grow distant and independent from their family aligning more with friends and technology than Mom & Dad or siblings. Learn how to change this trend and to strengthen your family identity.
Kids can be selfish, quarreling with siblings each wanting their own way. Mom and Dad get frustrated because they have been trained better. Get encouraged on how to deal with self-focused kids who want their own way.
A Kids bedroom represents who they are. Are their rooms and your home, reminding, reinforcing and reflecting who Jesus is to you and your kids? You might be surprised!
Kids can tell you they love you one day and then say some of the worst things at other times, wanting you to wash their mouth out with soap. Learn why kids do this and how parents can guide them to have a clean mouth.
This episode gives parents a practical plan to deal with kids that misbehave over, and OVER, and OVER AGAIN. Help your kids learn to make right choices so you can trust them to make good decisions.
Parents want their kids to be responsible. Learn how your kids can get the “key of trust” so you are confident they will follow through with what you give them to do.
“How does your child hear you, from their feelings or through their mind? It makes a HUGE difference on how they respond to you, your training, their siblings and peers.”
A sensitive, task-oriented child with the Melancholy temperament can drive their parent’s nuts when their emotions are out of control. Learn positive ways to work with them in this podcast.
It’s easy to get frustrated when kids are forgetful and do not follow through with what they said they would do. How does a parent train these kids?
Kids with the Phlegmatic temperament are typically lazy and unmotivated. Worst of all, their stubbornness gets them to dig their heels in to not obey and become unmovable. What can parents do?
How can parents deal with Choleric kids who have bossy and angry tendencies? What can parents do to train them to manage these weaknesses? Listen to this podcast to find out!
Kids often do the same wrong behavior over and over because of their Temperament. Learn what temperaments are and how they influence and impact your kids and parenting.
Trust is the foundation of any relationship. For kids to obey, they need to be able to trust their parents. Learn 5 ways parents often undercut trust with their kids.
Kids are used to instant gratification getting what they want, when they want it and how they want it. How can parents avoid raising a spoiled, conceited, self-indulged child? Find out in our latest podcast!
Respecting a sibling is one thing, but treating them with respect is another. Learn how to deal with disrespectful siblings so they can get along when you are not watching.
Having a good work ethic is to do a job you are given to do the way it is supposed to be done, with your best effort. Is this the way your kids do their chores and schoolwork when they would rather be doing something else? Join Joey & Carla as they share how to teach your kids how to have a good work ethic and why it matters.
Satan is going to use someone or something to try and influence your kids because he wants to write on their hearts what his character is, and what he wants their character to be. It’s your job to beat Satan to it by taking the time to write God’s character on their hearts instead. This is a process that takes years. Satan delights when he wins and God loses the character of an adult, teen or child. Whose side do you want your kids to be on, Satan’s or God’s?
Satan is going to use someone or something to try and influence your kids because he wants to write on their hearts what his character is, and what he wants their character to be. It’s your job to beat Satan to it by taking the time to write God’s character on their hearts instead. This is a process that takes years. Satan delights when he wins and God loses the character of an adult, teen or child. Whose side do you want your kids to be on, Satan’s or God’s?
“It’s summer and you and your kids want to kick back and have fun. Summer can also be a time to catch up on character training your kids need to develop. Learn what the Link’s say about teaching your kid things like developing personal time management, increasing their level of responsibility, and learning how to prepare for a trip or event. Scheduling in time to work with your kids on character training during their summer is a great thing for both you and your kids!”
Working together as husband and wife to get on the same parenting page is essential to train your kids in the way they should go. In this podcast Joey and Carla talk about how they got on the same page in their parenting and why staying on the same page is the best way to be effective parents.
Do your kids ask you for permission when they want something? Kids who don’t ask for permission for what they want do not respect your authority to decide what they can do. In this podcast Joey and Carla talk about you setting the boundary of asking for permission for your kids so they know what they have the freedom to do on their own.
Teaching kids self-control is much more than saying “no” when they are tempted with something they want but shouldn’t have. It’s helping them choose the right way over the wrong way.
Asking for forgiveness is hard, but is needed to teach kids how to have good relationships and how to restore bad ones with you, siblings, others and especially God. Learn to help a child doesn’t want to forgive.
There are 2 freedom areas kids try to take when they haven’t earned the freedom or can’t handle the responsibility. The freedom’s your kids have only exist because of what you allow them to do, choose, or say. Learn in this episode specific ways, to deal with these freedom areas proactively to help get your kids back inside the boundary areas you have laid before them.
Most parents would agree that being consistent when dealing with their kids bad behavior and attitude is probably their biggest struggle. Unfortunately, kids won’t grow and mature in the way you want them to until you are consistent when working with them. In this episode Joey and Carla share 3 primary reasons most parents are inconsistent and share ways to overcome them.
Telling your kids “no” is an everyday occurrence. Do your kids listen to you when you say “no” or go on with what they are doing? Do your little ones throw a fit when they don’t get their way? When you are in public, do they listen when you say “no” or do they think you’ll let it pass because people are watching? This podcast will give you tips how to handle your child instead of letting him/her handle you!
Children get angry when they don’t get their own way. What can parents do to help them work to find ways to deal with their anger without hurting others. Joey & Carla, use their 35 years experience and share 4 areas that will help you work with your children to help them learn to control their anger.
It’s exhausting listening to your kids bicker, argue and fight. Learn how to stop being the referee and get them to work things out on their own and stop the tattling too! Recommended Resources from This Session: Mom’s Notes: - “Dealing with Sibling Conflict Part 1 & 2” Notes CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Mom’s Notes: - “Training Elementary school Age Kids” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “Training Middle School Age Kids” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “The Middle Years Transition” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes
Help your boys who have been caught in lust and visual addiction looking at immoral pictures, movies, magazines or the internet Help your boys get control of this issue so it won’t destroy their future marriage. Recommended Resources from This Session: Parenting class: - “Protecting the Innocence of Childhood” Book: - “The Mission Boy to Man”
One question every parent wants answered is “What consequence can I give that will change my child’s behavior? Step outside the box and learn to be creative when giving consequences that may surprise you and your kids at how well they work! Recommended Resources from This Session: Book/MP3: - “Why Can’t I Get My My Kid’s to Behave” – Book & MP3 read by Joey & Carla N Book: - “Taming the Lecture Bug And Getting Your Kids to Think” DVD: - “Taming the Lecture Bug And Getting Your Kids to Think” DVD: - “Navigating The Rapids of Parenting” Mom’s Notes: - “Understanding Freedom’s” Part 1 & Part 2 CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “Training Elementary school Age Kids” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “Training Middle School Age Kids” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “The Middle Years Transition” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes
Time-outs rarely work because a time out does not change a child’s heart which changes a child’s behavior. Discover how to give your child a heart change that lasts. Recommended Resources from This Session: Book: - “Taming the Lecture Bug And Getting Your Kids to Think” DVD: - “Taming the Lecture Bug And Getting Your Kids to Think” Mom’s Notes: - “Understanding Freedom’s” Part 1 & Part 2 CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “Training Elementary school Age Kids” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “Training Middle School Age Kids” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “The Middle Years Transition” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes
Your kids want to blame someone or something for their bad behavior. Learn how to teach them to take ownership of their behavior themselves. Recommended Resources from This Session: Why Can’t I get my kids to behave Mom’s Notes FTO Undestanding Freedoms Book/MP3: - “Why Can’t I Get My My Kid’s to Behave” – Book & MP3 read by Joey & Carla DVD: - “Navigating The Rapids of Parenting”
What causes kids to have bad attitudes? It will surprise you! Learn how you can reverse the bad attitudes in your house with one powerful question. Recommended Resources from This Session: Mom’s Notes: - “It’s All About Attitude” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “Understanding Freedom’s” Part 1 & Part 2 CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “The Parent Trainer” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Book: - “Taming the Lecture Bug And Getting Your Kids to Think” DVD: - “Taming the Lecture Bug And Getting Your Kids to Think”
Parents typically only deal with their child’s bad behavior and do nothing about their bad attitude. Yet, kids’ attitude is what drives their bad behavior. Discover how you can shape your child’s attitude which will curb their bad behavior. Recommended Resources from This Session: Mom’s Notes: - “It’s All About Attitude” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “Understanding Freedom’s” Part 1 & Part 2 CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Book: - “Taming the Lecture Bug And Getting Your Kids to Think” DVD: - “Taming the Lecture Bug And Getting Your Kids to Think”
Over 75% of kids who grow up in Christian homes leave their faith during their college years. Learn what you can do to significantly improve chances your kids will be in the 25% who keep their faith strong. Recommended Resources from This Session: Mom’s Notes: - “Using the Bible in the Instruction and Training of Your Children” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Book: - Fast Facts on False Teaching”
Lying to a parent is one of the worst things kids can do because it breaks down your trust in them. This episode shares 5 ways kids lie that parents don’t typically see as lying. Learn how to drive lying out of your kids heart. Recommended Resources from This Session: Mom’s Notes: - “Liar, Liar Pants On Fire” & Notes/PDF Notes Mom’s Notes: - “The Besetting Sins of the Sanguine Child” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Subscribe to our podcast:
It drives parents crazy when they cannot trust their child who says “I will never ever do it again.” Yet in the next few days or weeks, that trust is broken once again! Find out how your untrustable child can become trustable again. Subscribe to our podcast:
When kids talk back to their parents it is to question and challenge their parent’s authority over them. Learn what parents can do and how to change this merry-go-round. Mom’s Notes: - “Understanding First Time Obedience” CD/MP3 & Notes/PDF Notes Book/MP3: - “Why Can’t I Get My My Kid’s to Behave” – Book & MP3 read by Joey & Carla DVD: - “Navigating The Rapids of Parenting”
This is a powerful phrase with a powerful punch, throwing the ball of responsibility back in your kid’s irresponsible court. Learn how to teach your kids to be responsible for their own stuff. Check out the resources we recommended in the podcast! Mom’s Notes “Understanding Freedom’s” Part 1 Part 2 Subscribe to our podcast:
Parents get frustrated when they follow their kids around reminding them over and over to get their stuff done. Learn how you can stop reminding your kids and get them to start thinking and remember for themselves. Check out the resources we recommended in the podcast! Mom’s Notes “Understanding Freedom’s” Part 1 Part 2 Subscribe to our podcast:
Parenting Made Practical Podcast Episode 1 When you tell your kids to do something do you expect them to do it? Learn what you can do to get your kids to listen to you and to do what you tell them to do. Check out the resources we recommended in this episode! Mom’s Notes “Understanding Freedom’s” Part 1 Part 2 Subscribe to our podcast: