Wonder of Parenting - A Brain-Science Approach to Parenting

What to do When Kids Feel Three is a Crowd. A mom asks about how to handle playdate situations where one of the kids feels excluded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Preparing My Child for Healthy Relationships. A mom asks about the brain science behind helping our kids develop strong relationships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back to School Special. Dealing with anxiety, teachers, and Covid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where Did that Mouth Come From? Mom’s kindergarten son has been coming home from school with swear words he never hears at home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Food on the Brain. A mom wants to know how food impacts the brain and which foods to avoid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Boy Who Cried Wolf. A mom writes to say she is concerned her son’s amazing imagination has turned to lying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Testosterone, Toddlers, and Tantrums. Two moms write in with questions about what is normal in toddler boys in terms of tantrums. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Summer, Kids, Learning, and Routines. Is a long summer break good for kids and learning? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Restoring My Son’s Self-Esteem. A 16 year son who thrived on school and wrestling is now struggling with panic and depression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Do I Tell My Daughter About Her Birth Father? A three year old daughter meets weekly with her biological dad but doesn’t know yet that he is her father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should I Have My Child Repeat 5th Grade. A mom wants to hold her son back in 5th grade. The school district is fighting her on it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boys, Girls, and Male Violence. How do we talk to our boys and girls about male violence without creating the impression that all males are violent? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boys, Bows, Painted Toenails, and Dresses. Two moms write in about their boys wanting to wear what is often considered to be “girl” stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listener Question: Circumcision. A mom writes in wondering if circumcision is okay. She’s read conflicting reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listener Question—Single Parenting in a Challenging Cultural Context. The writer is a single mom in a Middle Eastern Country trying to figure out how to explain to her children someday who their father is—as she was pregnant through IVF. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listener Question: What do I do about Grandpa? Mom is concerned her father may be a toxic influence on her children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listener Question: To Move or Not to Move. A mom wants to know if she should relocate with her military husband or stay where they currently live with the kids while dad visits on weekends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A 6 year old boy has increasingly grown anxious about watching the clock and getting to places on time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A mom wrestles with whether or not her son should retaliate when his brother hits him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael and Tim look at how to help our kids process events like COVID and the Capitol Riot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A mom is looking for male mentorship for her son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A mom writes in concerned about her son who seems to hang with other boys who overpower his personality and get him into trouble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writer has a young family member wrestling with his sexual identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A mom seeks advice on how to move forward with a son a year after his attempted suicide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A mom writes about her gifted son, wondering if the way education is delivered might be a cause in the underachievement of gifts boys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim asks Michael about strategies for helping stressed out parents, kids, and teachers navigate the new school Covid reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael and Tim look at the lack of attention boys often get in the Media and why our sons and boys need more advocates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This 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

As 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

Tim 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

Mom 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

Michael 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

An Aunt writes in about behaviors she’s concerned about in her young niece. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael and Tim discuss healthy brain habits for kids while sheltered in home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim 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

A 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

Tim asks Michael about how we can help our kids navigate this pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While 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

An 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

These 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

The 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

Michael 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

A single mom writes about her very smart 4 year old who is having troubles transitioning to school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listener Question: The Disposable Boy. Are boys growing up in a world that sees them as disposable? What does it mean for a boy’s purpose to be rooted in sacrifice? Are disposable and sacrifice the same thing? How do we raise our sons with purpose? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The listener shares that her 2 year old son has been getting in trouble for acting like a boy at his day care. Michael looks at both preschool systems and families systems, along with developmental and brain science research, offering practical strategies for schools and families for helping boys thrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim and Michael look at the power of rites of passage for empowering our sons and daughters to be wise, healthy, thriving adults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim chats with Michael about consent, sex, and how a boy’s body works sexually vs how a girl’s body works sexually and what that means for navigating sexual relationships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael and Tim look at ways to empower our daughters to thrive in relationships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim talks with Michael about the often unseen challenges boys face and how some now label all masculinity as toxic. Michael gives an overview of why Helping Boys Thrive is important for our boys, our girls, our families, and our communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listener Question: Toddlers and Tantrums. A listener voices concern about the way her toddler son throws his tantrums. Tim chats with Michael about why tantrums happen and how we should respond in the home and in public. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices