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Your Child is Different, Not Deficient, with Jonathan Mooney
Our kids are often the pegs that don’t fit in the conventional holes. Jonathan Mooney, author of Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn and Thrive Outside the Lines, has a message for parents on how to help bright and quirky kids truly thrive.
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Transform Your Relationship with Your Child by Showing Up, with Tina Payne Bryson
When your child’s having a hard time, what tools do you pull from your toolbox to help them find calm? Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, author of The Power of Showing Up, shares some tried and true strategies to help down-regulate the nervous system and find calm in the eye of the storm. Instead of worrying…
Read MoreWhen a Bright Child Resists Learning, with Melanie Hayes
If your bright child resists the very thought of reading, or learning non-preferred subjects, should you push them anyway? According to Melanie Hayes, EdD, Director of Big Minds Unschool, this pattern is not unusual in bright and quirky kids. Listen as Dr. Hayes shares quick tips on how to proceed in this delicate situation. The…
Read MoreLet’s Get Out of Overwhelm – The Bright & Quirky Screen Time & Mental Health Summit
A parent recently shared with me, “The screen is a magnet. It pulls her in and instead of seeing it as something fun to use once in a while, she spends all her time on the screen and occasionally pulls away to do chores, homework, etc. It’s become her ‘normal.’ I worry that as she…
Read MoreWhen Kids Access [the P-Word] Online, with Michael Rich
Did you know that the average age of first seeing porn online is about 9 years old? I know, scary! That’s why, according to Michael Rich, MD, Director of the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, it’s so important to share essential guidelines with kids. Take a listen. We loved Dr. Rich’s talk during…
Read MoreSigns of Tech Overuse, with Shimi Kang
Are you concerned that your child or teen may be at risk for problematic internet use or screen addiction? According to Shimi Kang, MD, author of The Tech Solution: Creating Healthy Habits for Kids Growing Up in a Digital World, there are 3 signs of tech overuse that are important to understand. Take a listen…
Read MoreScreen Activities that Lead to Well-Being, with Mona Delahooke
What if you had a quick and easy way to determine which online activities add to or subtract from your kids’ mental health? It turns out you do! In this brief conversation between Debbie Steinberg Kuntz, LMFT and Mona Delahooke, PhD, see the quick way you can rate online activities to see if they’re a…
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