Wonder of Parenting - A Brain-Science Approach to Parenting
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Best of: Does Violent Play Lead to Violent Children?
From August 2021: Does Violent Play Lead to Violent Children? A mom is concerned about the “violent play and storytelling” of her son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: When a Son Wants to Distance from a Mom
A listener writes in asking how to help moms successfully help their sons individuate while not losing their hearts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: How to Blend a Blended Family
From May, 2021: How to Blend a Blended Family. A mom is about to move in with her boyfriend. She brings a son into the relationship as does he. Her concern is for her boyfriend’s son and how he will transition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hope for Overwhelmed Moms with Guest Rebecca Olson
Mom coach Rebecca Olson joins the podcast to share insights and strategies into how moms can find balance in their lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Listener Question—Should I Expect My Kids to Sit Through Family Meals?
From March, 2021: A mom writes about the challenge she’s facing getting her husband to agree to family meals, claiming boys have a hard time doing so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mom to Mom: How to Raise Boys
Maggie Dent, author of the best-selling book, Mothering Our Boys, and mother of four grown sons, joins the podcast from Australia to offer helpful and often humorous insights into mothering boys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Listener Question: Calming Strategies for Students
From December, 2020: A teacher writes concerned about one of her students and wonders how she can help all of her students learn calming techniques. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
My Son Gets Overly Fixated
A mom writes in on Facebook concerned about how fixed her son becomes on little things to the detriment of other things like his studies. Michael helps clarify between OCD, ADHD and ADD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of : Listener Question—Screens, Naps, and Bedtime
From January, 2021: A mom writes in trying to juggle naps and screens, learning to issues around bedtime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: The Wonder of Parenting Holiday Extravaganza
From December, 2023: The Wonder of Parenting Holiday Extravaganza. Michael and Tim share a brief holiday podcast to wish you happy holidays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Best Of" The Holiday Episode: The Power of Traditions
From December 2018: Michael and Tim talk about the values and memories shaping power of traditions not only during the holidays but throughout the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Navigating Grief through the Holidays
Michael shares from his personal experience of losing his wife Gail insights into handling grief during the holidays, with a special focus on how to help our kids when they grieve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of : Listener Question: How Can I Get My Husband to help with the Kids?
From September, 2020: With 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
Best Of : Holidays, Consumerism, and Your Kids
From December, 2023: Michael and Tim offer insights into navigating the consumerism of the holidays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question—The Pessimistic Child
From August 2020: A mom writes in wondering how to help her son who wrestles with pessimism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How To Help Kids Move From Trauma to Resilience. Guest Dr. Fletch.
Dr Fletch is back to talk about her experience with trauma as a child and how we can help our kids move from their own trauma to resilience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question: My Brain Made Me Do It!
From February 2020: A 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
Celebrating Birthdays Without Breaking the Bank! Guest Nikki McPhetridge
Nikki McPhetridge, author of Maya's Birthday Wish, joins the show to help parents find simpler, more joy-filled ways to celebrate birthdays without breaking the bank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question: The Child Who Talks Too Much
From July 2019: Michael and Tim answer a question from a mom concerned about her overly talkative child who seems to be disrupting the class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
My Child is Autistic. Now What? With Dr. Theresa Lyons
Dr. Lyons joins the podcast to talk about her experience raising an autistic daughter and practical, science-based insights into navigating autism. Visit www.awetism..net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Questions: Stapled fingers and rough with animals
From September, 2019: Listeners Questions: Michael and Tim answer two questions; the first from a mom whose son staples his finger and the second about a son who is rough with his cat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Can I Help My Son Discover His Purpose in Life?
Michael and Tim discuss why purpose is so important for boys and how to help them discover it for themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question—The Exhausted Mom
From February, 2021: A homeschooling mom is at her wits end being a mom and a teacher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Can I Help My Daughter Discover a Vision for Her Life?
Michael and Tim look at the ways girls discover fulfillment, vision, and self worth in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question—My Sisters Parenting Style is Nuts!
From January, 2021: This Aunt is having a hard time managing her sister’s kids because their parenting styles are so different. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Suiting Our Boys Up for Manhood
Michael and Tim are joined by Mark Ryan and Barry Shreiar from the Army and Navy Academy to talk about how to build emotionally, physically, and spiritually strong boys for manhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question—Genitalia Fascination
From January, 2021: A dad is concerned about his young daughter’s fascination with her genitalia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Should Kids Watch the News? with Guest Lynn Smith
Former news anchor and producer Lynn Smith joins the podcast to look at how the news impacts our kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question—Body Image and the 10 Year Old
From November, 2020: A mom writes in with a moving question about her 10 year old daughter and body image issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
My Five Year Old Son Wants to be a Girl
Michael and Tim respond to a parent who's young boy wants to be a girl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Is Today’s Classroom a Therapy Session?
From October 2020: Tim asks Michael about an editorial suggesting that too much of education today is about making kids safe and building self-esteem vs. challenging them with learning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brain Bullies and Your Kids with Guest Lynn Smith
Author, former news anchor, and consultant to CEOs, Lynn Smith joins the podcast to talk about how to build resiliency in our kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Listener Question—To Preschool or Not to Preschool
From August 2020: A 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
Is Our Obsession with Feelings Good for Our Kids
Michael makes the argument that while it's good to help kids identify their feelings, what's more important is how they act on them/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Listener’s Questions—Boys and Hitting
From August, 2020: Two moms write in about challenges around their young boys and hitting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Helping Our Kids Handle Disappointment
Tim tells a personal story about fracturing his foot while training to walk a half marathon with his grandson, leading to the topic: How to help our kids handle disappointment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Teenagers!
From August, 2021: Teenagers! A mom requests an episode on the unique challenges teens face as they grow up in this new world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Power of Grandparents with Guest Ted Page
Grandpa and author of "Good Grandpa," Ted Page, joins the podcast to talk about the unique role grandparents can play in raising kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Sports Parents
From December, 2021: Sports Parents. Michael and Tim offer practical advice for being sports parents while nurturing the nature of your child Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rewiring the Parenting Manual in our Brains
Michael and Tim respond to a listener's concern about parenting her children as the victim of childhood abuse. Michael offers person insights from his own story as a survivor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Other Kids’ Parents
From October, 2021: Other Kids’ Parents. A mom wants to know how to set boundaries when other kids play at her house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Power of Hope with Guest Neil Bierbaum
Neil Bierbaum joins the podcast from South Africa to talk about the importance of building hope in our kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Phobias and Other Scary Things
From September, 2021: Phobias and Other Scary Things. A mom writes in about her daughter’s fear of needles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: Teens, Food, and Eating! Oh My!
A mom, who raised her daughter to eat healthy foods, is frustrated that now, at 13, her daughter seems to only be eating junk food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Boys are from Mars, Girls are from Venus with Dr. John Gray
Michael and Tim are joined by best-selling author of Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus, Dr. John Gray, to apply his insights into raising our sons and daughters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Best of" My Kids Have a New Sibling on the Way
From June, 2021: My Kids Have a New Sibling on the Way. A mom asks how to navigate the soon birth of her third child with her other two children, all of whom will be under the age of 4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listener Question: The Moody Teenager
A mom writes in grieving the change in her daughter and their relationship as her daughter moves into puberty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Best Of" What Should I Teach My Boys About How to Treat Girls?
From March, 2021: Listener Question: What Should I Teach My Boys About How to Treat Girls? This mom writes: how do I raise my boys to believe girls shouldn’t be seen or treated any differently but also they actually should treat girls differently in some ways? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reading: It Does a Brain Good with Guest Doug Lemov
Tim is joined by author Doug Lemov who dives into the science of reading and why reading is essential for our kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
End of July Bonus Episode: Back To School Tech Tips
As kids get ready to go back to school, guest Jen Kelman, LCSW, offers some strategies for managing screen time and school responsibilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices