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Stories Are Soul Food

93: Killing the Cranky Danky Dragon

Stories Are Soul Food

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8787 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Parenting isn't easy, and Rachel Jankovic's "Sir Badalot and the Cranky Danky Dragon" gives parents the tools to talk with their fat-faced toddlers about emotional self-control. Most parents do that by resorting to the poor parenting tactics of 1) emotional distraction, and 2) emotional reaction. Turns out, your child's response to a "fussy dragon" should include actually pretending to kill it! But the self-control vitamins are not why Sir Badalot is a good book -- that's just an added benefit. The SASF guys host Rachel Jankovic to talk through this parenting advice and how her fun new book, illustrated by Hello Ninja's own Forrest Dickision, is really just a fresh chocolate cookie for a hungry child. (Oh, and you'll also get a nice long stretch of Nate's dark take on relying on real-life vs fictional friends.) #SirBadalot #CanonballBooks #SASF #StoriesAreSoulFood #RachelJankovic #ForrestDickision #HelloNinja #FussyDragon

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Stories Our Soul Food podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction imprint of Canon Press.

0:07.9

Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell.

0:11.8

Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell.

0:14.9

Made a ghost of a king on a row.

0:17.1

Welcome to Stories Your Soul Food.

0:19.2

We're super professional right now.

0:21.3

We're on our game.

0:23.0

Yep.

0:24.9

Here we are.

0:27.4

Okay.

0:28.4

You know what?

0:29.5

Brian has a plan.

0:30.8

I do have a plan.

0:32.1

I don't know what number of the episode we're on.

0:35.8

And so I'm going to say 93.

0:36.8

Less than 100.

0:39.2

93. And we are here with, how do we introduce Rachel? We're celebrating episode less than 100 by having my

0:45.9

sister on. Yeah. My younger sister who is now launching her first picture book into the world.

0:53.0

There it is.

0:54.4

Surbattle.

0:55.7

Serbat a lot.

1:00.0

And the cranky danky dragon written by Rachel Jancovic and illustrated by Forrest Dickison. If you are deep tracks listeners to stories or soul food, you will recognize both those names.

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