Latest Childbehaviorproblems Podcast Episodes
I'm So Ugly! How Can You Handle Kids' Insecurities?
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - April 16, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsWhen our kids are talking down about themselves, of course our first instinct is to push back. But even though we say “you’re so beautiful,” or “you’re so smart,” or “you’ll get better if you practice,” the message we send is “I’m not listening and understanding your experience.” If you want to ...
What If My Kid Seems Oppositional And Defiant?
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - April 09, 2024 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsIf you’re a parent with a kiddo who’s constantly angry and acting out, a diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) can seem like an explanation for a lot of disruptive behavior. But what if that defiance and opposition are actually caused by other sensitivity? I’ve worked with so many par...
Empowering Children to Participate in Essential Matters at Home (with coach and author Lori Sugarman-Li)
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - April 02, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsHousework. Homemaking. Chores. Whatever you call it, it’s hard work to maintain a safe, clean house, and it’s made so much harder by the expectations around that work. So many moms, whether they’re employed outside the home or not, find themselves in charge of a lot more of those household tasks...
Portrait of Randi As a Young Mom (with Author & Podcaster Kimberly Samson)
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - March 26, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsKimberly Samson is the author of F*Ck This, a candid and hilarious collection of essays about the journey through midlife. She’s also one of my oldest friends, who has witnessed a ton of my formative moments as a person and a parent. In this conversation, Kimby shares what motivated her to write...
Why Following Through on Boundaries is So Hard
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - March 19, 2024 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsEvery parent has some version of this story. Your kid crosses a line that’s important to you. You exchange angry words, but eventually you talk it out and repair your rapport. Now you’re stuck with conflicting feelings. You don’t want to cause further disruption to your relationship with your ch...
What Your Therapist Really Thinks…
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - March 12, 2024 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsTherapy can be a big help for some people. But for stressed-out parents, healing our old wounds and stepping up for our kiddos often requires a different approach. One of my Masterminders, Dr. Shawn Hondorp, has experienced this disconnect from the inside. Shawn is an experienced clinical psycho...
Getting Your Kid A Label Isn’t Enough
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - March 05, 2024 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsLast week’s conversation about ADHD got my brain firing about what a diagnosis can and can’t do for the parents of a highly sensitive child. Getting that label can be a starting point, but our mental health system doesn’t train medical professionals - or support struggling parents - to understan...
Talking With Pediatric Neuropsychologists About ADHD
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - February 27, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsAn ADHD diagnosis can be a welcome answer for parents who are struggling to understand their child’s behavior. But a diagnosis doesn’t come with a user’s manual, and kids especially can have a hard time understanding what all the clinical terms mean for them and their needs. This time I’m in con...
The "Do Less" Approach To Raising Confident Kids with Michaeleen Doucleff
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - February 20, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsWe all want our kids to grow up confident and self-sufficient. But by doing too much and protecting our kids from failure, so many well-meaning moms and dads end up discouraging the autonomy they want their kids to achieve. Welcome to the first episode of an ongoing conversation with my friend a...
Tap Into The Power of Informed Annoyance
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - February 13, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsNo parent loves to admit feeling annoyed by their kids. It’s tempting to dismiss little problems, and try to ignore the frustration they cause inside us. This is extra hard if we’ve experienced gaslighting in the past. If we’ve gotten the message from partners or parents that our emotions aren’t...
Pack Leadership: Real Families, Real Change
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - February 06, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsEmotionally immature parents set us up for lots of challenges in our own role as family pack leaders. One of the most difficult ways that shows up is when our actual kiddos act in ways that echo behavior we endured from emotionally immature grown-ups. This week I invite you to listen in on some ...
Breaking The Cycle of Emotionally Immature Parenting
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - January 30, 2024 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsLook out, listener, I have another new book crush, and I can’t wait to discuss her work with you! I’ve recently been captivated by Lindsay C. Gibson and her book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents. It spoke to so much of my experience with my own parents and their resistance to refle...
Pretending. Performing. Parenting.
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - January 23, 2024 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsIf you’ve listened to the podcast, you’ve probably heard me mention how much I love television. Since I was a kid, TV has been a place where I could escape from reality for a little while. But it’s also helped me to understand what kind of family relationships I want, and modeled the kind of par...
Invisible Mom Jobs are the Real Bottleneck
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - January 16, 2024 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsMy mind is on fire with all the things we’re discovering in my new Pack Leadership group. One of our newest Masterminders is experiencing a very familiar kid scenario: pulled in too many directions, never enough time, her energetic daughter is seeking attention by acting out. Usually, I’d send h...
Parenting in 2024: What’s In and What’s SO Out
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - January 09, 2024 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsWe’re coming into 2024 with a whole new perspective on the pack leadership our families need. We’re done performing robotic perfection. We’re rejecting the script, tips, and how-tos that reinforce our feelings of inadequacy. We’re giving ourselves the grace to feel our feelings, and granting our...
How To Make Parenting Resolutions That Last
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - January 02, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsIt’s a brand new year, and a new opportunity to set goals for ourselves. It’s a chance to work toward being the kind of parent you want to be, and to step up as the pack leader your family really needs. But traditional New Year’s resolutions usually don’t cut it when you’re talking about a lifet...
From Surviving to Thriving in The New Year
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - December 26, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsWe all know that holiday festivities can be stressful. When you’re navigating a sensitive, strong-willed child through extended family get-togethers and seemingly endless days with no schedule or structure, it can be especially nerve-wracking. What your family needs is leadership. The episode we...
Prevent Judgey Relatives from Hijacking Your Holiday
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - December 19, 2023 11:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsThe holiday season is a time for making lovely, warm memories, and nothing pours cold water on holiday cheer faster than other adults judging you for the way your kids behave. This week’s episode is a throwback to one of my most powerful tools to build up your confidence, keep judgment in perspe...
How to Survive and Thrive During the Holidays
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - December 12, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsEven the most joyous holiday events disrupt routines. Getting together with family and friends, sitting down for extra-long meals, and observing rituals and traditions are all out of the ordinary. Of course your kiddos might have a hard time knowing how they’re supposed to behave. They need you ...
A Game Plan for a Happy Holiday Season
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - December 05, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsThe Winter holidays can be a struggle for parents. We want to provide plenty of space for our kids to relax and de-stress. But too little structure can quickly turn into restlessness and boredom and tension. This week we’re listening back to a classic episode that features the timeless wisdom of...
Parenting Kids That Don't Always Seem Grateful
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - November 21, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsOur Mastermind Monthly calls are always eye-opening, but this one was so on point I had to share it with you. In this season that’s so focused on gratitude, it can be especially frustrating when our kiddos don’t understand how fortunate they are. There are all sorts of popular ways to practice g...
But Really... Growing Doesn't Happen Alone
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - November 14, 2023 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsIt’s no secret that I love my Mastermind community. The ways we support and challenge each other are just magical. Masterminder Aryn is a perfect example of that. She came to us in total overwhelm, so focused on being available for her family that she couldn’t even let herself close the bathroom...
But Really… Breaking Up With Perfectionism
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - November 07, 2023 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsI didn’t know exactly what I was going to talk about with Masterminder Liz, but I just knew it would turn out to be a real and revealing conversation. Like so many of us modern moms, Liz is a recovering perfectionist. We run ourselves ragged trying to get everything right all the time. That’s no...
Leading Your Family Beyond “Fairness”
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - October 31, 2023 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsTreating our kids fairly makes a lot of instinctive sense. It’s natural to want everybody to get equal everything. But different kids have different needs. When they all get the same attention and resources, they’ll often wind up with very different outcomes. Effective pack leadership requires...
But Really… Turning Judgment Into Compassion
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - October 24, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsJudging other parents is so natural, so human, and so not helpful. I can tell you from experience. When you learn a better way to do things, it’s really challenging to not give side-eye to those who haven’t gotten on your level. Which is why I had to have Masterminder Samantha on to tell this st...
Hunt, Gather, Parent Your Family: Resolving Sibling Rivalry (Part 2)
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - October 17, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsSibling rivalry is such a big topic, you just know my conversation with Michaeleen Doucleff had to be a two-parter. In this second episode, we’re talking about what motivates siblings to fight in the first place: strong societal expectations of tension between siblings, and parental praise that ...
Hunt, Gather, Parent Your Family: Resolving Sibling Rivalry (Part 1)
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - October 10, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsSo many folks sign up for coaching or come to my free calls desperate to get their kids to stop fighting with their siblings. When our beloved kiddos are at each others throats, it sends our stress levels through the roof. What if told you that sibling rivalry isn’t inevitable? In fact, the way ...
But Really… Better Boundaries Aren’t Enough
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - October 03, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsMasterminder Shawn recently opened up about a common struggle for parents of highly-sensitive kids. Her son’s birthday weekend with extended family left him overstimulated and dysregulated, and her frustrated by crossed boundaries and judgy relatives. Shawn’s takeaways were important. She’s tryi...
Hunt, Gather, Parent Your Family: Dealing With Judgy Adults (Part 2)
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - September 26, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsOur latest Hunt, Gather, Parent conversation was so big and juicy, we couldn’t fit it into just one episode! In part two of this episode, journalist and author Michaeleen Doucleff is back to help us unpack what happens when other adults are judging us for our parenting choices. We respond to a...
Hunt, Gather, Parent Your Family: Dealing With Judgy Adults (Part 1)
Mastermind Parenting Podcast - September 19, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsWhen I sat down with Michaeleen Doucleff to record the next episode in our Hunt, Gather, Parent series, I knew it was a meaty topic. We’ve all experienced that feeling of being judged for our parenting, by grandparents, other kids’ parents, and even random strangers. I’ve coached so many parent...
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