Ever wondered what it's like to blend personal traditions with familial expectations during the holidays? In this episode of Pediatric Meltdown, Dr. Lia Gaggino shares her experiences with Christmas celebrations, highlighting the unique blend of Polish traditions from her husband's heritage and her own family's rituals.<ul><li>Family Rituals: Dr. Gaggino discusses the significance of family rituals, such as sharing a wafer similar to the Catholic host and wishing each other well, despite some family members finding it cringey.</li><li>Meal Traditions: She talks about the specifics of their holiday meal, including mushroom soup and homemade pierogies, and how these traditions evolve over time to accommodate changing family dynamics.</li></ul> <ul><li>Importance of Traditions: Dr. Gaggino reflects on the deeper meaning of traditions, emphasizing their role in creating predictability, routine, and reassurance for children.</li></ul> Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to all of you.

Ever wondered what it's like to blend personal traditions with familial expectations during the holidays? In this episode of Pediatric Meltdown, Dr. Lia Gaggino shares her experiences with Christmas celebrations, highlighting the unique blend of Polish traditions from her husband's heritage and her own family's rituals.Family Rituals: Dr. Gaggino discusses the significance of family rituals, such as sharing a wafer similar to the Catholic host and wishing each other well, despite some family members finding it cringey.Meal Traditions: She talks about the specifics of their holiday meal, including mushroom soup and homemade pierogies, and how these traditions evolve over time to accommodate changing family dynamics. Importance of Traditions: Dr. Gaggino reflects on the deeper meaning of traditions, emphasizing their role in creating predictability, routine, and reassurance for children. Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to all of you.

Ever wondered what it's like to blend personal traditions with familial expectations during the holidays?&nbsp;In this episode of Pediatric Meltdown, Dr. Lia Gaggino shares her experiences with Christmas celebrations, highlighting the unique blend of Polish traditions from her husband's heritage and her own family's rituals.<ul><li>Family Rituals: Dr. Gaggino discusses the significance of family rituals, such as sharing a wafer similar to the Catholic host and wishing each other well, despite some family members finding it cringey.</li><li>Meal Traditions: She talks about the specifics of their holiday meal, including mushroom soup and homemade pierogies, and how these traditions evolve over time to accommodate changing family dynamics.</li></ul> <ul><li>Importance of Traditions: Dr. Gaggino reflects on the deeper meaning of traditions, emphasizing their role in creating predictability, routine, and reassurance for children.</li></ul> Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to all of you.

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Tune in to Pediatric Meltdown and listen to experts provide insights and strategies on a wide variety of behavioral health and mental topics anytime and anywhere that fits your busy schedule.  Guests include published researches, primary care colleagues, therapists, educators, parents and even patients.  Caring for children and teens with major meltdowns, depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety, school struggles to name a few along with a myriad long list of behavioral and mental health concerns is daunting and most of us did not receive formal training in residency to prepare us to meet this need.  Access to child psychiatry nationally is limited and in some regions just not available at all and as a result we must often provide what can only be called psychiatric care for our pediatric patients.  In an effort to increase our understanding of behavioral and mental health assessment and treatment, we attend conferences, read articles,  and participate in webinars. You can now add Pediatric Meltdown; the podcast dedicated to children's emotional well-being.   Providing behavioral health care at its best is collaborative and connecting with others across disciplines enriches and enhances the care we provide.  In the words of Maya Angelou "Do the best you can until you know better.  Then when you know better, do better."  Let's do better together!

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Tune in to Pediatric Meltdown and listen to experts provide insights and strategies on a wide variety of behavioral health and mental topics anytime and anywhere that fits your busy schedule. Guests include published researches, primary care colleagues, therapists, educators, parents and even patients. Caring for children and teens with major meltdowns, depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety, school struggles to name a few along with a myriad long list of behavioral and mental health concerns is daunting and most of us did not receive formal training in residency to prepare us to meet this need. Access to child psychiatry nationally is limited and in some regions just not available at all and as a result we must often provide what can only be called psychiatric care for our pediatric patients. In an effort to increase our understanding of behavioral and mental health assessment and treatment, we attend conferences, read articles, and participate in webinars. You can now add Pediatric Meltdown; the podcast dedicated to children's emotional well-being. Providing behavioral health care at its best is collaborative and connecting with others across disciplines enriches and enhances the care we provide. In the words of Maya Angelou "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Let's do better together!

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