Hands Full: A Parenting Podcast Patrick Frato

This week, Axel and I explain why kids test limits and push boundaries. We explore whether children actually need and/or desire boundaries and examine the effect of establishing firm limits on the parent-child relationship. If you’ve ever wondered why kids need boundaries and how to effectively respond to limit-pushing behavior, this episode is for you!  

Our development is shaped by people passing in and out of our lives. Sometimes the only thing we consciously remember about them are words of advice they either intentionally, or unintentionally, impart to us. If we accept that this is the case, shouldn’t we, as parents, deliberately cultivate a list of aphorisms to share with our children that will help them navigate life? This week, Axel and I tout the benefits of deliberately transmitting words of wisdom (aka aphorisms) to children, and we share some of the most impactful words of wisdom we’ve received from our families and mentors.

This week, Axel and I are awestruck by our guest, Sara Reith, the brilliant and indefatigable Executive Director and Founder of OHuddle, a non-profit that provides 1:1 mentoring and wraparound services to over 600 children in Wayne County, Ohio. Sara shares with us secrets from the best mentors, what we can learn about parenting from research on mentoring– and makes us choke up with heartwarming tales of mentoring successes.

This week, we pack as many discipline strategies, tools, and hacks as possible into an hour-long episode. We provide scripts and concrete explanations for how to deal with a range of different behaviors, from sibling conflicts to physical violence. You’ll learn how to de-escalate, redirect, diffuse, and teach. If you’re looking to add to your discipline toolkit, you won’t want to miss this episode. 

There are likely entire podcasts and dissertations dedicated to examining leadership insights from the hit Apple TV series Ted Lasso. What isn’t discussed as much, but should be, are the show’s lessons about how to raise healthy, well-adjusted young people. In this episode, Axel and Patrick outline and explore the most essential (in our humble opinions) parenting lessons from the series.

If you’re like us, your default parenting responses can make you seem like a bad boss. Curiously, we would never allow someone else to treat our kids the way we sometimes treat them. Is it okay that we hold others to a different standard than we hold ourselves? Or should we strive to parent more like the best coaches? In this episode, Axel and Patrick make the case for parenting like Ted Lasso, as opposed to a bad boss.