THE PARENTING IQ PODCAST
Understand your child & parent with confidence
Parenting advice is everywhere. Knowing what fits your child and your family can feel really hard.
The Parenting IQ Podcast helps you make everyday parenting decisions with greater understanding and confidence. Join Dr. Kelly Cagle and her guests for practical conversations that connect research with real family life so you can understand your child, weigh your options, and confidently choose your next step.
Hosted by Dr. Kelly Cagle, a PhD in K-16 education, ADHD researcher, and homeschooling mom of three boys, each episode helps you better understand your child’s needs, so you feel confident teaching life skills, character, and emotional intelligence that go far beyond the textbook and last a lifetime.
Some of the topics we cover include:
ADHD-friendly parenting strategies
How to motivate your kids without nagging
Building confident, connected families
Teaching life skills that stick
Rethinking academics for real-world success
Managing sibling dynamics and home rhythms
Biblical wisdom + brain science and so much more
The show is proudly part of The Christian Parenting Podcast Network.
Our mission is to help you understand your child so you can parent with confidence.
Episode 12: How to Fight for Engagement
In this episode, Josh and Kelly share how they fight against disengagement as husband and wife and as dad and mom.
Episode 11: How to Set Boundaries
Boundaries are established to protect, not limit. This episode is a must if you’re struggling to stick to your word, even when the kids keep begging.
Episode 10: Fighting for Time
Are you doing what you REALLY want to do in the 24 hours you have each day? Josh & Kelly share a few thoughts about fighting for their TIME– with the last one being you just can’t live without!
Episode 9: How to Stop Fighting about the Kids
Do you fight about the kids?? In this episode Josh & I talk about 3 areas that can put a stop to those arguments!
Episode 8: Your Requests & Input!
Today’s episode has a different structure– Josh & I chat about different topics you have sent in….
Like: loving our spouses in different ways, balancing work + house chores + parenthood + marriage + & self-care, and of course, sex too!
This would be a great episode to listen to with your spouse ;)
Episode 7: #1 Issue Married Couples Fight about
What’s the #1 issue married couples fight about???
And how can you create a home culture to fight it in a healthy way?!
Episode 6: Let’s Talk about Sex, Baby
Racism, politics, agendas, fears, negative & positive words are all part of your home culture. If your walls could talk, what would they be saying???
p.s. listen to how your kids are talking/fighting. 👀
Episode 5: If these Walls could Talk
Racism, politics, agendas, fears, negative & positive words are all part of your home culture. If your walls could talk, what would they be saying???
p.s. listen to how your kids are talking/fighting. 👀
Feature Dr. Kelly Cagle
On Your Show
A mind shift between student & learner
What every American home desperately needs: Less chaos, more connection
Being a healthy mom in an overstimulating world
When the world is your school: Learning that happens at home
Three character traits every child needs: Competence, creativity, and curiosity
Avoiding parental burnout
How to fight the current mental health crisis
Eight ways people are wired as learners through the 8 Multiple Intelligences theoretical lens
Improving home life with an ADHD child: Simple habits that make a big difference
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