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Get Your Kids Moving to Combat Diagnoses!

Get Your Kids Moving to Combat Diagnoses!

In this episode, Dr. Hicks talks about research revealing that a holistic approach, that aligns with Play Therapy, is effective in combating common child diagnoses. Before you accept a pediatrician's diagnosis, and medicate your kids, consider this simple, more...

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Stop Rewarding Negative Behaviors

Stop Rewarding Negative Behaviors

Many parents don't realize that the way they respond to their kids is actually REWARDING their NEGATIVE behavior! In this episode, Dr. Hicks explains what this looks like, and how to implement a play therapy technique to prevent rewarding negative behavior.Podcast...

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The Top 3 Most Preventable Behavior Problems

The Top 3 Most Preventable Behavior Problems

Dr. Brenna discusses the top 3, most easily preventable reasons kids display behavior problems. So before reacting, mentally go through this list to see if you can quickly eliminate the cause for these top 3 reasons children misbehave.Podcast Transcript Hi, I’m Dr....

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The “Magic” of Play Therapy

The “Magic” of Play Therapy

Sometimes, Play Therapy is described as "Magical" because people don't know why it works so well, it just does. In this episode, Dr. Brenna explains how play therapy works by telling a story of one of her clients who worked through his issues through play. He did it...

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#Badmom

#Badmom

An episode that I had to record as a result of a simple bumper sticker on a car in front of me… and it is now my personal mission to make every parent claim positive and encouraging traits about themselves! Listen all the way to the end so that you can be empowered to...

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How To Increase Your Emotional Vocabulary

How To Increase Your Emotional Vocabulary

The more you understand the "wheel" of emotions, the more you can help your child communicate what they are feeling accurately. In this episode, Dr. Brenna Hicks introduces you to Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions, and the theory of how it all fits together. You can use...

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