90 episodes
15-Minute Parenting. Joanna Fortune
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With over twenty years of clinical expertise, psychotherapist and parenting expert Joanna Fortune shares her proven techniques that will enable you to better understand your relationship with your child as they grow. 15-Minute Parenting, is a mindful and practical parenting roadmap for busy and time-poor parents. Based on a simple and effective formula, it will transform family life in just fifteen minutes of daily play, resulting in less tears and more laughter.
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15 Minute-Parenting: Blending your blended family
In this episode Joanna answers the most common questions that arise when someone is living within a blended family unit. She covers everything from minding yourself, each other, the kids, the ex and the in-laws with practical clear advice
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15 Minute-Parenting: Eco-Anxiety
In this episode Joanna responds to a listeners question about how to better understand their child's feelings about climate change. She explains what Eco-Anxiety is and why we have to approach the scary reality of climate change through the lens of hope rather than fear
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15 Minute-Parenting: Understanding the trauma of war
In this episode Joanna talks us through the impact of the trauma on war on those who are arriving into our Country. It can be hard to understand why our offers of help may not be received in the way we hoped they would or to understand the perspective of someone who is fleeing their Country in fear of their safety. Joanna talks us though the invisible scars of war.
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15-Minute Parenting: Focus on self-esteem in boys
Joanna speaks a lot about self-esteem and our young people but also parental-esteem. We know that self-esteem is something all children, regardless of gender, struggle with but now we have some deeper insights into our boys challenges with self-esteem. This episode explores boys struggles with self-esteem
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15-Minute Parenting: Affection - it’s not all hugs and kisses
In this episode Joanna is referring to a question posed to her by a parent concerned that their child withholds affection as they do not like hugs. Joanna explores how affection can be shared and shown in a multitude of ways and why it is important to respect our children's preferences in this regard as a way of modelling respect for body boundaries and consent. Joanna includes some playful ways to do this
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15 Minute-Parenting: Relational Aggression in young children
What do you do when your child tells you that their friend in school said they can't be friends anymore or if your child declares that someone is not allowed to be their friend anymore? In this episode Joanna breaks down what is relational aggression even in very young children and how we should respond to this in these early years as it will shape how this relational aggression plays out in their older years too