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 everythi...
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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 wit...
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20 of 90 episodes15 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 expl...
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 unders...
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, reg...
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 lik...
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 someo...
15-Minute Parenting: What’s in a name?
Joanna is answering a question from a listener who is in a stand-off with their partner over what they should name their baby. Joanna explor...
15-Minute Parenting: The Imperfection of Perfectionism
Are you raising a perfectionist child? Were you a perfectionist child? Perhaps you are a perfectionist parent or you were raised by one? If...
15 Minute-Parenting: Making sense of our senses part 2
This is the second part of our sensory discussion and this week Joanna is speaking about the lesser discussed senses of proprioception, Vest...
15-Minute Parenting: Making Sense of our senses part 1
In this episode Joanna talks us through 5 of our senses, the ones that we will all be most familiar with Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, Hearing...
15-Minute Parenting: How to be your child’s influencer
This week Joanna is talking about how we parents can be our children's influencer in a sea of social media influencers. This involves that a...
15-Minute Parenting: Talking with your children about difficult news events
Joanna responds to recent tragic news events with some practical suggestions and guidance as to how we can find the words and means to expla...
15 Minute-Parenting: The incompatibility of solo play and young children
Joanna responds to a parents question about how much time their 1-year-old should be able to play alone by talking us through the phases of...
15-Minute Parenting: Sharing is caring...or is it??
Joanna responds to a number of questions she has received about how best to encourage our children to share and why does it matter? She emph...
15-Minute Parenting: Responding to body exploration/self-touch in toddlers
Joanna tables the touchy subject of self-touch in young children. She talks us through how body curiosity in children is both normal and hea...
15-Minute Parenting: A Christmas Tale
Joanna takes 2 questions from parents to explore creative ways to slow down or structure the Christmas hype for children and also how to man...
15-Minute Parenting: The Teenage Years
Joanna is taking a short break from recording so this episode is an excerpt from her 15-Minute Parenting series of books. Today's excerpt is...
15- Minute Parenting: 8-12 Years
Joanna is taking a short break from recording so this episode is an excerpt from her 15-Minute Parenting series of books. Today's excerpt is...
15-Minute Parenting: 0-7 Years
Joanna is taking a short break from recording so this episode is an excerpt from her 15-Minute Parenting series of books. Today's excerpt is...
15 Minute-Parenting: The joy of a joyful mindset
Joanna talks about why joy and the experience of shared joy isn't just a nice experience but is an essential one as we grow and develop thro...