Wonder of Parenting - A Brain-Science Approach to Parenting
310 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 12 hours ago - ★★★★ - 295 ratingsWouldn’t it be great if your child came with an owner’s manual? A how-to book on how to raise your child? And if your child came with such a manual, wouldn’t it be helpful to have someone walk you through it, making that owner’s manual come alive? Michael Gurian and Tim Wright serve as your guides through what they believe is the owner’s manual for your child: Your child’s brain. While the brain doesn’t tell the whole story, it does offer a treasure trove of insights into your son or daughter. Michael and Tim each have over 30 years of experience using brain science research, best-practices, and their own experiences as dads in helping parents read, understand, and implement the gift of your child’s brain, the built-in how-to manual that will help you enjoy the wonder of parenting.
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Episodes
Listener Question: The Vaping Son
September 28, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutesA mom writes concerned about her 13 year son who is consistently lying about his behavior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: My Son is “Locked Down” in Video Games
September 21, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutesThis mom from Spain is concerned about the amount of time her son is spending on video games, which has increased during Covid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: How Can I Get My Husband to help with the Kids?
September 14, 2020 07:00 - 31 minutesWith many parents now working at home and helping their kids navigate online school, this mom wonders how to help her husband help out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: How Do I Talk about Death and Dying to my Kids?
September 07, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutesCovid has brought a lot of death talk into our homes. This mom asks how she can talk about dying and death with her four year old. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question—To Preschool or Not to Preschool
August 31, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutesA mom asks about when to start a child in preschool, what to look for in a preschool, and specifically asks about language immersion preschools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question—The Sleepwalking Daughter
August 24, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutesA 7-year-old girl has issues falling to sleep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2nd Anniversary Gurian on the Hot Seat
August 17, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutesAs the Podcast celebrates its second anniversary Tim gives Michael the chance to share his heart for raising boys and girls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question—The Pessimistic Child
August 10, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutesA mom writes in wondering how to help her son who wrestles with pessimism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener’s Questions—Boys and Hitting
August 03, 2020 08:00 - 36 minutesTwo moms write in about challenges around their young boys and hitting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question—My Daughter Was Touched Inappropriately
July 27, 2020 08:00 - 36 minutesA mom wants to know how they can help their 13-year-old daughter heal after being touched inappropriately by her female 13-year-old cousin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question—The Boy with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
July 20, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutesAs the Wonder of Parenting Podcast celebrates its 100th podcast, Tim and Michael look at the question fostering an 11-year-old boy with FAS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question—How do I Get My Son’s Attention
July 13, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutesA mom writes in about her overly rambunctious boy and his overly rambunctious friendship with another overly rambunctious boy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Racism and Your Child
July 06, 2020 08:00 - 37 minutesTim asks Michael for advice on how to talk with our children about the images they are seeing on TV around racism. (End at 21:12 or so where Michael says…solved at a community level) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: Reconciling with Kids
June 29, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutesA mom is wondering how she can reconnect with her two step children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: Breaking the Cycle of Anxiety
June 22, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutesA mom is concerned she will pass her anxiety disorder on to her son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: When Daddy Comes Home From Deployment
June 15, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutesMom asks how to help her daughter transition to dad’s return from Iraq after being gone for a year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: The Closed Off Child
June 08, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutesA mother writes about the challenges they’re deal with concerning their 10 year old son, especially his on-going frustrations and lack of willingness to talk about them or deal with them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why is the Y so Vulnerable?
June 01, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutes60-70% of all Covid 19 deaths are male. Michael and Tim look at the unique fragilities of the Y chromosome and strategies for building resiliency in our sons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Education, Your Child, and the New Normal
May 25, 2020 08:00 - 37 minutesMichael and Tim look at the disruption of Covid 19 and how to navigate the education of our kids through it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: My Niece is a Handful
May 18, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutesAn Aunt writes in about behaviors she’s concerned about in her young niece. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: The Sensitive Son
May 11, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutesA mom writes about the conflict between her “doesn’t do feelings” husband and their overly emotional son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: Personality or Trauma?
May 04, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutesA Grandmother writes about a trauma her granddaughter experienced at two weeks of age and wonders if that might have affected the granddaughter’s personality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Special: How to Keep Your Kids Brains Engaged while Sheltered in Home
April 27, 2020 08:00 - 36 minutesMichael and Tim discuss healthy brain habits for kids while sheltered in home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Special: How to Keep Parents Sane while Sheltered in Home
April 20, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutesTim asks Michael for practical ideas on how to keep sane as adults, as parents, and as couples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: How Do I Talk to My Kids About Substance Abuse
April 13, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutesThe writer lost her brother to Meth many years ago and now, raising her own kids, wants advice on how to help them make wise decision about drugs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: What Do I Tell My Son about His Dad?
April 06, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutesA single mom asks this question as she anticipates her son, whose biological dad is not and has never been in the picture, asking it of her one day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: Sibling Rivalries or Sibling Friendships
March 30, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutesA mom writes to ask how she can her 3 year adjust to her soon to be new sibling and how to help them get along as they grow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question—Motivating a 6th Grader to Learn
March 23, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutesA 6th grader loves to read and play, but has a hard time motivating himself in school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Special Edition: Talking to Your Kids About the Coronavirus
March 18, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutesTim asks Michael about how we can help our kids navigate this pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question—School Meltdowns
March 16, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutesA mom writes to ask why her son might be having meltdowns in school when at home he always seems perfectly fine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Neurotoxins, Your Child, and Your Child’s Brain
March 09, 2020 08:00 - 36 minutesNeurotoxins are everywhere. Tim asks Michael what they are, what they do to our brains, and how we can protect our children from them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: Separation Anxiety
March 02, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutesA listener from Germany writes to ask about navigating separation issues at school and in other areas of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Helping Boys Thrive
February 24, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutesWhile lots of attention and resources are directed to helping out girls thrive, our boys are greatly underserved. Michael and Tim talk about the challenges our boys face and a way to rally local communities to address the issues of boys and girls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: My Brain Made Me Do It!
February 17, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutesA 3 year old is wrestling with impulse control and blames his brain. Michael and Tim dig into the brain science to talk about how to help our kids manage their impulses as they grow into adults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: How to Help My Parents Better Understand their Grandchildren
February 10, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutesThe listener wants to know what insights she can pass on to her parents about her daughters and son and help grandma and grandpa better connect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: Sleep!
February 03, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutesThe mom of a one year old wants advice on how to get her child to sleep through the night. Michael and Tim expand the question to look at the sleep needs of kids through adolescence…and the sleep needs of parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: The Best School for Boys
January 27, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutesAn expectant mom is already thinking about the best school for her soon to be born son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: How to talk about Death and Suicide with Kids
January 20, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutesThe listener wants to know how to talk about Grandpa’s suicide with her young children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: Boy, Girls, and Pornography
January 13, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutesMichael and Tim look at the effects of pornography on a boy’s brain and the legal issues surrounding online porn when it comes to our boys and girls Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: Raising Boys in a Gay Household.
January 06, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutesTwo dads are looking to adopt sons and have questions about how raising their sons in a Gay Household. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listeners Questions: The Three Year Old Wrecking Ball and the “Color Blind” Grandson
December 30, 2019 09:00 - 35 minutesThese two questions focus on harnessing the energy of boys, one with lots of physical energy, the other with energy expressed through humor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nurturing Generosity in Your Kids
December 23, 2019 18:35 - 28 minutesMichael and Tim look at the science of generosity and offer practical strategies for nurturing a generous spirit in our children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listeners Questions: The New Mom and Nature vs. Nurture
December 16, 2019 09:00 - 34 minutesA new mom wants advice on how to raise her new son and another mom wants to know how to discern inborn traits vs. learned behavior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Santa and Other Imaginary Friends
December 09, 2019 09:00 - 35 minutesMichael looks at the power of imagination in our kids and Tim asks if it’s ok to foster a belief in Santa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listeners Questions - Boundaries and Inner Strength
December 02, 2019 09:00 - 32 minutesMichael and Tim take on two questions one having to do with boundary setting and the other with a daughter who seemingly needs more inner strength. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Building Gratitude in Your Kids
November 25, 2019 14:03 - 27 minutesMichael and Tim look at the science behind gratitude and how it can set up your child for a good life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Questions: Empowering a Daughter and The Independent Preschooler
November 18, 2019 08:00 - 37 minutesThe first question deals with a young daughter who doesn’t seem to stand up for herself with her friends. The second question is about a very independent Preschooler who struggles with boundaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Questions: Parental Social Media Use and the Boy who Reads too Much
November 11, 2019 08:00 - 34 minutesA parent writes in wondering about the impact parental use of social media can have on kids and a mom is concerned that her son might be reading too much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Questions: The Teen who Won’t Study and Language Immersion
November 04, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutesMichael and Tim respond to the family who are struggling to get their teen son to study and to the mom who’s wondering about immersing her young son in French. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Understanding the Effects of Trauma on our Boys and Girls
October 28, 2019 08:00 - 36 minutesMichael and Tim focus on the broader issue of trauma, what forms it takes, what signs to look for, and how to respond when our kids are traumatized. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices