{"id":3241063,"date":"2016-05-04T17:13:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T20:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3241063"},"modified":"2016-05-04T17:13:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T20:13:41","slug":"lunchbox-interview-heidi-billington-successfully-parenting-transitions-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/lunchbox-interview-heidi-billington-successfully-parenting-transitions-interview","title":{"rendered":"The Lunchbox Interview: Heidi Billington on &#8220;Successfully Parenting Transitions) [INTERVIEW ONLY]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-ParentingTransitions.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3241064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3241064\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/lunchbox-interview-heidi-billington-successfully-parenting-transitions-interview\/attachment\/lunchbox-parentingtransitions\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-ParentingTransitions.png\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LunchBox-ParentingTransitions\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-ParentingTransitions-800x800.png\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3241064\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-ParentingTransitions-300x300.png\" alt=\"LunchBox-ParentingTransitions\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-ParentingTransitions-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-ParentingTransitions-100x100.png 100w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-ParentingTransitions-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-ParentingTransitions-800x800.png 800w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-ParentingTransitions.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Parenting seems to me to be a mix of art, magic, science, psychology and endurance &#8212; but thankfully, there <strong>are<\/strong> those who want to <strong>help<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My guest today is <strong>Heidi Billington<\/strong>, the organizer at the Smythe Street Cathedral of a collection of workshops called <a href=\"http:\/\/smythestreetcathedral.com\/change-ahead\/\"><strong>&#8220;Change Ahead: Successfully Parenting Transitions&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>. These are aimed at providing parents with knowledge and community when dealing with children in three transitional stages of life. She joined me to talk about what each of the age groups will talk about, her own experiences raising 4 children, and how such groups help fill-in the gaps in the parenting job.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5407\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160503%20-%20Interview%20-%20Heidi%20Billington%20-%20Parenting%20Transitions%20-%20INTERVIEW%20ONLY.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5407','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160503%20-%20Interview%20-%20Heidi%20Billington%20-%20Parenting%20Transitions%20-%20INTERVIEW%20ONLY.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160503%20-%20Interview%20-%20Heidi%20Billington%20-%20Parenting%20Transitions%20-%20INTERVIEW%20ONLY.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3241063-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160503%20-%20Interview%20-%20Heidi%20Billington%20-%20Parenting%20Transitions%20-%20INTERVIEW%20ONLY.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160503%20-%20Interview%20-%20Heidi%20Billington%20-%20Parenting%20Transitions%20-%20INTERVIEW%20ONLY.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest today is Heidi Billington, organizer of the Change Ahead: Successfully Parenting Transition workshops for the Smythe Street Cathedral. [INTERVIEW ONLY]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5408\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160503%20-%20Interview%20-%20Heidi%20Billington%20-%20Parenting%20Transitions%20-%20INTERVIEW%20ONLY.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5408','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160503%20-%20Interview%20-%20Heidi%20Billington%20-%20Parenting%20Transitions%20-%20INTERVIEW%20ONLY.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160503%20-%20Interview%20-%20Heidi%20Billington%20-%20Parenting%20Transitions%20-%20INTERVIEW%20ONLY.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3241063-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160503%20-%20Interview%20-%20Heidi%20Billington%20-%20Parenting%20Transitions%20-%20INTERVIEW%20ONLY.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160503%20-%20Interview%20-%20Heidi%20Billington%20-%20Parenting%20Transitions%20-%20INTERVIEW%20ONLY.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><p><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/lunchbox-interview-heidi-billington-successfully-parenting-transitions-interview\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3241064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3003,3563,3142],"class_list":["post-3241063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-children","tag-parenting","tag-workshop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-ParentingTransitions.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241065,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241063\/revisions\/3241065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3241064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}