Mar 13, 2022
Why What A Child Believes Is More Important Than What A Child Knows Have you ever told your child something about them that you know to be true, but they just don’t believe it themselves? They could be smart, athletic, funny, etc. But they may have something...
Mar 4, 2022
Discipline Is Not About “Controlling” Your Kids! Do you often find yourself having to “step in” to control your child’s behavior? In today’s episode, I’m going to try to change your thinking about discipline. The goal of...
Feb 24, 2022
Why Being “Vague” Is A Conversation Killer With Kids (How To Get More Than One-Word Answers) When parents realize that kids need a different type of communication, it changes the way you interact with them. I discuss three sub-topics: kids are emotional,...
Feb 8, 2022
“When you focus on the problem, you lose sight of the child” This episode continues my parenting “Rules of thumb” series [as taken from Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (Bratton & Landreth, 2019)] “When you focus on the problem, you...
Jan 29, 2022
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Have you heard the (true) story of the little girl that went out every morning to get the mail, and the mailman greeted her with “Hello, Miss America!” She ended up winning the Miss America pageant. We don’t understand the...
Jan 14, 2022
Research Review: Chaotic households undermine children’s development of executive functioning through less responsive parenting In this episode, a research study referenced on psypost.org caught my eye and I wanted to share it and talk about how it reflects what I see...
