Wonder of Parenting - A Brain-Science Approach to Parenting
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Building Perseverance in our Kids-Listener Question
A mom writes in with a question everyone parent asks at some point--when do I push my child to keep trying and when do I let it go? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Reading With Your Kids
From August, 2022: Reading With Your Kids. Michael and Tim are joined by Jed Doherty to talk about the importance of reading with our kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Pathway to Manhood with Guest Paul Cumbo
Michael and Tim are joined by author and educator Paul Cumbo who shares insights from his new book, A Pathway to Manhood as we continue our mini-series on Helping Boys Thrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: The Sassy Daughter
From May of 2022: The Sassy Daughter. A mom writes in about her 10 year old daughter whose behavior is causing concern in the family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Boys: A UK Perspective with Nick Isles
Nick Isles, of the newly formed Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys in the UK joins the show to talk about the issues of boys from a UK perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Helping Girls Thrive
From November 2020: Tim asks Michael about some of the key issues girls face today and how we as parents can support them and help them thrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Screens, Play, and the Magic of the Outdoors with Guest Susie Spikol
Author and Naturalist Susie Spikol joins the podcast to offer creative, imaginative ways to get our kids outside and why it's good for their brains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: What Are Girls Made Of?
From September 20, 2018. The second episode of the show. What Are Girls Made Of? Michael Gurian and Tim Wright take the 30,000 foot view of a girl’s brain and some of the insights it can give you for raising your daughter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Male Mental Health
Michael and Tim look at the challenges our boys have in expressing their emotional challenges and how we can help them thrive in the midst of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question: How Do I Talk about Death and Dying to my Kids?
From September, 2020: A 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
The Manosphere and Boys with guest Rachel Hale
USAToday journalist Rachel Hale joins the show to offer insights into the manosphere and how to protect our boys from it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question: Is This What Puberty Looks Like?
From November, 2020: A mom writes in about her 10 year old son and how his behavior seems to be changing. She wonders what might be puberty and what might be other issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grandfatherly Advice for Dads with Guest Ted Page
Ted Page, author of the new book, Good Grandpa, joins Michael and Tim as they offer wisdom to dads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: 2019 Father's Day Special
From June 2019: Michael and Tim talk about their dads and about their lives as dads with an emphasis on what makes dads special. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fragile Masculinity?
Most of what we hear about masculinity has to do with toughness, toxicity, and being the alpha male. Michael suggests that the male brain is actually quite fragile and that our call is to build boys who are compassionate and resilient. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question: The Vaping Son
From September, 2020: A 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
Helping Boys Thrive in School with guest Daniel Parlato
Michael and Tim are joined by teacher Daniel Parlato to look at why boys are falling behind in school and strategies for helping them thrive throughout their educational experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Listener Question: Boys, Girls, and Pornography
From January, 2020: Michael 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
Netflix's Adolescence and Toxic Boys
Michael and Tim review the Netflix show, Adolescence, and offer some insights into toxic masculinity, the Manosphere, and raising our sons with a positive vision for manhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of--Video Games and Your Child’s Brain
From Nov. 2018: Michael and Tim look at the impact of video games on your kids—especially your sons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What About Homeschooling?
A mom is struggling with keeping her 9-year-old son engaged with school. Is homeschooling an option? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Girls and STEM
From November 2020: Michael and Tim talk about the current state of Girls and STEM in schools and the workplace, with strategies for helping them succeed in those arenas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2025 Mother's Day Special: Three Minutes for Mom with Guest Erin Morrison
Erin Morrison joins the show to share with moms how to make time for themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Mother's Day Edition 2019
This May, 2019 Episode celebrates moms Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is There a Gay Brain?
A mom writes in asking if there is such a thing as a Gay Brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Gurian on the Hot Seat
From August, 2020: As 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
Raising a Neuro-divergent Child with Guest Daryl Potter
Daryl Potter shares the journey he and his family have been on the last 24 years with their neuro-divergent daughter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of Listener Question: Personality or Trauma?
From May, 2020: A 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
The Bombastic Toddler-Listener Question
A mom asks Michael and Tim for advice on her overly angry daughter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Listener Question—Motivating a 6th Grader to Learn
From March 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Preparing Your Kids for Adulting with Guest David Krasky
Guest David Krasky shares his insights into how to raise our kids to be healthy, productive adults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question--Raising Boys in a Gay Household
From January, 2020: Two 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
Managing Parental Expectations
One of the top concerns of parents is their own expectations. Michael and Tim offer some advice to manage them better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Questions: Parental Social Media Use and the Boy who Reads too Much
From November 2019: A 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
Three Things We Want Our Daughters/Granddaughters to Know
Michael and Tim share the wisdom they have have passed along to their daughters and will pass on to the grandddaughters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Your Child’s Brain and Screen Time
From October, 2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Educating Boys into Men with Guest Barry Shreiar
Michael and Tim are joined by Barry Shreiar of the Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, CA to talk about raising virtuous boys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Neurotoxins, Your Child, and Your Child’s Brain
From March, 2020: Neurotoxins 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
Is Pokiness Nature or Something Else?
A mom writes in concerned about her easy going, but slow-to-get-stuff done son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Protecting Our Sons from Sexual Trauma Part 2
From October, 2019: Tim asks Michael about how to protect our sons from sexual trauma and what signs of sexual trauma parents should look for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crushes, First Loves, and Hormones
Michael and Tim look at the brain science between love and attractions and how to help our children navigate the joys and heartaches of those early crushes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best of: Protecting Our Sons from Sexual Trauma Part 1
From October, 2019: Tim interviews Michael about the sexual trauma Michael experienced as a 10 year old boy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Play! Featuring Guest Anna Housley Juster
Anna Housley Juster is back to talk with Michael and Tim about the power of play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listener Question: The Lying Teenager
From September, 2019: A mom writes in about the challenges she and her husband are facing with a son who lies about vaping and other issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Keys to Helping Boys Thrive
Michael and Tim look at some of the keys to helping boys thrive from Michael's new book--Boys: A Rescue Plan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Listeners Questions: Parents and Kids and Teachers, Oh My
From July 2019: Michael and Tim offer strategies for helping teachers, schools, and school districts engage with brain science as they teach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Do Boys Need Rescuing?
With the release of Michael's new book--Boys: A Rescue Plan, Tim asks Michael why boys need to be rescued. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Best Of" Listener Question: How to talk about Death and Suicide with Kids
From January, 2020 "Best Of" Listener Question: How to talk about Death and Suicide with Kids Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Wonder of Parenting Valentine's Special
Special Guest Warren Farrell returns to join Michael and Tim in talking about how to model strong marriages for our kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Best Of" Listeners Questions: The New Mom and Nature vs. Nurture
From December, 2-19: A 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