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Beyond "You're OK": Modeling Emotion Regulation
Episode 56
I hear a huge crash. It’s my favorite glass vase. I hear “I didn’t mean to hurt it, Mommy! It just fell!” as I run full-pelt from the other end of…
8 years, 4 months ago
055: Raising Your Spirited Child
Is your child ‘spirited’? Even if they aren’t spirited all the time, do they have spirited moments? You know exactly what to do in those moments, r…
8 years, 5 months ago
054: Three reasons not to say "You’re OK!"
“I hear parents on the playground all the time saying “You’re OK!” after their child falls over. Often it does make the child stop crying…but doesn’t…
8 years, 5 months ago
Sleep! (And how to get more of it)
“HOW DO I GET MY CHILD TO SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT?!” is the thinly-veiled message under the surface of many of the emails that I get about sleep. An…
8 years, 5 months ago
052: Grit: The unique factor in your child’s success?
In Professor Angela Duckworth’s TED talk, she says of her research: “One characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasn’t…
8 years, 6 months ago
051: How to handle social exclusion
Episode 51
“I don’t want to play with you.” “You’re not my friend.” “We’re playing families. If you want to play, you have to be the dog.” Seems like everyo…
8 years, 6 months ago
050: How to raise emotionally healthy boys
“Be a man.” “Boys don’t cry.” “Don’t be a sissy.” Boys hear these things all the time – from parents, from teachers, from friends and peers. What…
8 years, 7 months ago
049: How to raise a girl with a healthy body image
Folks, this one is personal for me. As someone with an ~ahem~ family history of disordered thinking about body image, it is very, very high on my pr…
8 years, 7 months ago
049: How to read with your child
Waaaay back in Episode 3, we wondered whether we had missed the boat on teaching our babies to read (didn’t you teach your baby how to read?). We eve…
8 years, 8 months ago
047: How to raise a bilingual child
Do you have to start teaching a second language from birth? Does it help to get a nanny who speaks a second language? Is there any way your child w…
8 years, 9 months ago