Welcome to 2019! Join Jon and Heather as they celebrate surviving another fringy holiday season. In this episode we run the gamut, talking about upcoming guests, sensory kids and illness, Rocky IV, wine & wine clubs, magical disembodied mom voices, and so much more!
episode one hundred: celebrating fringy parenting fails
Phew! Episode 100 is finally here! Thanks for your patience, and enjoy this light-hearted episode as we revisit some favorite parenting fails and hear some new ones from the Bits and from Heather and Jon.
episode-ninety nine: all things gaming
Tabletop games can be a favorite pastime for gifted minds.Join Heather and Jon as they chat about their views of gaming and provide a long list of their family favorites.
Mentioned in this episode:
Family games:
Curious George hide+seek Zoo
Pengoloo
Hedbanz
Quelf
Slapzi
Itzi
Sleeping queens
Blink
Pass the pandas
Qwingo
qwitch
Adult games:
Kinder perfect
Pick your poison
Trailer park wars
Preteen +:
Yeti eats alien
Smash up
Tsuro
Golden snitch
Knowledge games:
Labyrinth
Mouse trap
Jishaku
The magic labyrinth
Othello
Cooperative games:
Hoot owl hoot
Forbidden island
(wow)
Giving Fringy Thanks
Happy (US) Thanksgiving from Heather & Jon!
episode ninety-eight: no shame
Sometimes us fringy parents get to be on the receiving end of unintentional shaming. Heather and Jon will talk about one such incidence and will (hopefully) encourage you to find ways to shed off the shame.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Children Come First Conference
Ross Greene
The Kids We Lose documentary
Bikers Against Child Abuse
episode ninety-seven: media
How do you handle media, technology, screen time, and you kids? how do you determine appropriate content? Listen in on as Heather and Jon share their strategies.
mentioned in this episode:
http://www.ccfconference.org/
Ray Donovan
commonsense media
ign
gamespot
metacritic
episode ninety-six: intellectual indulgence
Ahh…doesn’t intellectual indulgence sound so warm and cozy and invigorating too? Join Heather and Jon as they talk about intellectual indulgenceand focusing on our kids (and our own!) strenghs and curiosities.
mentioned in this episode:
Astonishing Legends
Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin HBO movie
Tom Clynes
The boy who played with fusion
Parenthood (movie)
episode ninety-five: mental drain & household management
Ever feel exhausted just moving through daily life as a fringy parent? There’s some very real reasons why you do! Join Heather & Jon as they chat/converse/debate/convivially argue about the splitting of all the household things on top of all the fringy things.
Mentioned in this episode:
episode ninety-four: finding other parents w/kitty ver kuilen
You know that parenting these Fringy kids of ours is a unique journey that not just anyone can understand. Listen in as Heather speaks with Kitty Ver Kuilen, retired gt coordinator and current WATG board member, about finding other parents who can relate.
mentioned in this episode:
WATG
SENG
soar gifted camp
john jakes homeland
smart boys book
episode ninety-three: socialization
Fringy. Gifted. Homeschooled. Living a life on the fringes means socialization isn’t always an easy thing. Ask any homeschool parent and they will tell you the most frequently asked question is about socialization. Of course, Heather and Jon have a few things to say on that topic!
mentioned in this episode:
let’s get social
Ross Greene
WATG
children come first conference
episode ninety-two: how much fringy-ness should we share?
It can be hard to know how much to tell other people about our kids wiring. Do we tell the scout leader? the Sunday school teacher? the friend’s mom? Our own family and friends? Join Heather and Jon as they sort through how much and how to talk to family, friends, and others about all the Fringy stuff. PLUS - a new segment in which we give tips on how to find a good fitting neuropsych or therapist.
episode ninety-one: when the shininess of a new school year is over
We are coming up to October; the time of year when the excitement of a new school year fades and the behaviors start popping up. Listen in as Heather and Jon talk about the reasons for the change in behavior, how to see beneath the behavior, and how to survive through it all! There may or may not be a few (hopefully relatable!) rants mixed in, too.
mentioned in this episode:
prodigy (the band)
prodigy (the online math game)
Dr death podcast
sword and scale podcast
episode ninety - Can't we just follow the IEP?
Some years are easy, some years . . . . not so much, but either way it seems like it takes a few days (weeks? months?!) every school year to get back on track with the tools and strategies that were developed for our fringy kiddos the year before. join Heather and Jon as they chat about ways to advocate for your kid.
mentioned in this episode:
compendium press
Minnesota social services association
Colorado gifted conference
Wisconsin gifted conference
children come first conference
Texas gifted conference
episode eighty-nine: revisiting the Zones
This week, the three Fringy kids join Heather on the podcast! Join them as they review the Zones of Regulation and strategies to help the whole family manage the big emotions of fringy living.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Zones of Regulation
The Gifted Kids Workbook
episode eighty-eight: shameless parenting with sara dean
Join Heather & Jon as they chat with Sara Dean from the Shameless Mom Academy! Sara is passionate about helping parents maintain their own identity in the midst of the child-rearing mayhem. The chat goes a bit all over the place, from shamelessly sharing your story to fitness to fighting against all the -isms and more. Enjoy!
Mentioned in this episode:
Sara Dean
Sara Dean Facebook group
"this will be my undoing" by Morgan Jerkins
"published" by chandler bolt
episode eighty-seven: differently wired with Debbie Reber
Today we are SO excited to have Debbie Reber on the Talky Bit. You may know her from her podcast or her books, and we're discussing what it is like to home school and be differently wired across the Pond, adapting to change, and understanding neurodiversity in general.
Mentioned in this episode:
Tilt parenting With Debbie Reber
"Differently wired" by Debbie Reber
Shots of awe with Jason Silva
Brain games
"Breakfast of champions" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Notes from a small island" by Bill Bryson
"A separate peace" by John Knowles
Panda cuddler job
episode eighty-six: screen time
How much is too much? Is there such a thing as too little? Heather & Jon talk about how to navigate parenting in the digital age.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Magic Labyrinth Game
David Bowie in Labyrinth the movie
"pengwings" clip
episode eighty five - taking the pressure off
Today Heather and Jon will touch on a brief review of their trip, but more importantly they will discuss how to help deal with the pressure of having a gifted child.
we also are proud to announce the official release of The Gifted Kids Workbook! Register to win a signed copy or a copy to review on Amazon by August 15th. It's easy! Just send a screenshot of your review of the Fringy Bit Podcast in apple podcasts to contact@thefringybit.com and you'll be entered to win! If you've already left a review, get a friend to review the podcast, and make sure they mention your name in the email they send us and you'll both be entered!
episode eighty-four: Fringy Grief
In light of the recent and sudden loss of one of the gifted world's most influential leaders, this episode of the Fringy Bit podcast explores grief. While Heather & Jon only had the fortune of chatting with Seng Founder, Jim Webb, on a couple of occasions, his work and his compassionate presence has had significant influence on our lives, professionally and personally. Not the way we envisioned starting off the third season of our podcast, but we all know living a Fringy Life is anything but predictable.
In an endeavor to continue adding to the great work Jim dedicated his life to, we also are proud to announce the official release of The Gifted Kids Workbook! Register to win a signed copy or a copy to review on Amazon by August 15th. It's easy! Just send a screenshot of your review of the Fringy Bit Podcast in apple podcasts to contact@thefringybit.com and you'll be entered to win! If you've already left a review, get a friend to review the podcast, and make sure they mention your name in the email they send us and you'll both be entered!
Mentioned in this episode:
James T Webb
Phases of Grief
episode eighty three-fringy family road trips
In this episode, Jon and Heather talk about and strategize about family road trips with fringy kids. This will also be the last episode of season two. we will return in August (if we survive our own road trip in July!)
mentioned in this episode:
SEA Homeschoolers convention
SENG conference
Cold snap towels
Children come first conference