Tag: connection
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New Podcast Episode, The Life Skills Every Child Needs: Confidence, Conversation, and Leadership with Adam Dovico
What if confidence, strong communication, and leadership were skills children could learn and practice? In this episode Peyten Williams talks with career educator, former principal, author, and Wake Forest professor Adam Dovico about how parents can intentionally teach children the interpersonal and life skills they need to thrive in the real world.
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New Podcast Episode, Connection and Restoration: Helping Kids Learn From Mistakes with Bridget Johnson
What should parents do when a child makes a poor decision, gets in trouble at school, or feels like they do not belong? In this episode of What Great Teachers Know That All Parents Can Use, Peyten Williams talks with Bridget Johnson, founder and CEO of Dean’s Roundtable, about how parents and schools can help…
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New Podcast Episode, How To Help Kids Learn Grammar Without Shame with Patty McGee
In this episode of What Great Teachers Know That All Parents Can Use, Peyten Williams talks with leadership coach, speaker, and founder of Pleasantly Aggressive, Rebecca Malotke Meslin, about why parenting is not just teaching — it is leadership. Rebecca shares practical wisdom from her work coaching school leaders through difficult conversations, emotional regulation, and…
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Navigating Tough Conversations with Kids
One of my favorite things about hosting What Great Teachers Know That All Parents Can Use is discovering how much wisdom from schools applies around the kitchen table. But in my May 15 podcast conversation with Rebecca Malotke-Meslin, leadership coach, speaker, and founder of Pleasantly Aggressive, I was struck by something even bigger: Parenting is not just teaching. Parenting…
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New Podcast Episode, How to Have Difficult Conversations with Kids: Parenting Leadership with Rebecca Malotke-Meslin
In this episode of What Great Teachers Know That All Parents Can Use, Peyten Williams talks with leadership coach, speaker, and founder of Pleasantly Aggressive, Rebecca Malotke Meslin, about why parenting is not just teaching — it is leadership. Rebecca shares practical wisdom from her work coaching school leaders through difficult conversations, emotional regulation, and…
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Reflection: Capitalize on the Calm Before The Roller Coaster Of “Maycember”, Newsletter 4/23/26
For many of us, the end of the school year comes like the downhill drop of a roller coaster: fast, fun, loud, a little disorienting, and full of twists and turns….Every year, May arrives with its own kind of velocity. We try to be present, keep up, enjoy it, and not let the whole thing…
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Newsletter 2/19, Raising Kids Who Won’t be Bullied…OR be the bully
I think this might be one of my worst fears as a parent. That my kids will either become the kid who is bullied or become the bully. Maybe you feel the same… But I have good news. We have influence. There are qualities that we can work to cultivate in our kids by the way…
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Want to Know About Bowbend? Exploring Life and Business: A Voyage ATL Interview
https://voyageatl.com/interview/exploring-life-business-with-peyten-williams-of-bowbend-consulting
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Newsletter 1/7/2026,The Most Helpful Parenting Strategy I’ve EVER Found
I’m not exaggerating with this title. This is 100% the most helpful parenting strategy. It is disarming. It works with kids of all ages. It not only solves current problems….it also does the work of shaping our kids into independent thinkers, confident problem solvers, and building a culture of mutual respect in our homes.