Today Bryce will be talking with Brooks Gibbs, PhD a social psychologist and resilience coach. He has 25 years of experience on how to teach kids and adults how to respond to bullying or better named, aggression. He runs a program on teaching kids and grown-ups in the schools how to combat mean behaviors and build our kids and ourselves up. You do not want to miss this amazing interview where Brooks shares the secrets to helping our children get strong. Spoiler Alert, it’s not what we are doing right now, and our system and our parenting need to change to support our children.

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Parenting kids with ADHD can be both challenging and rewarding. Both Todd Johnson, LMFT, and Bryce have children with ADHD. This episode focuses on how to support our children and ourselves in helping to raise healthy humans! Today they will break down the struggles to help you as the parents or other supportive people who love someone with ADHD. Sometimes parenting kids with ADHD can be very exhausting and parents can find themselves frustrated. Todd and Bryce will also share what to expect as they develop and how to continue to work with your child!

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Resources:

These 2 assessments are to be taken to your child’s therapist or pediatrician for interpretation and review.

ADHD Parent and Teacher Inventory: https://nichq.org/sites/default/files/resource-file/NICHQ-Vanderbilt-Assessment-Scales.pdf

Connors Parent Assessment: https://stevensonwaplak.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/connorsparent.pdf

ADHD Symptoms:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/symptoms

If you want to contact Todd Johnson, LMFT check out his website: 

https://prairieviewcounselingkc.com/or on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prairieviewcounselingkc/

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Bryce and Todd Johnson, LMFT will be talking about ADHD. Discussing what the impacts of ADHD in childhood and teen years can be as well as what to be looking for and how to support your child with ADHD. Todd is a well-known ADHD therapist with lots of years navigating his own ADHD. He is insightful and supportive in this introduction to ADHD in childhood.

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Resources:

These 2 assessments are to be taken to your child’s therapist or pediatrician for interpretation and review.

ADHD Parent and Teacher Inventory: https://nichq.org/sites/default/files/resource-file/NICHQ-Vanderbilt-Assessment-Scales.pdf

Connors Parent Assessment: https://stevensonwaplak.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/connorsparent.pdf

ADHD Symptoms:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/symptoms

If you want to contact Todd Johnson, LMFT check out his website: 

https://prairieviewcounselingkc.com/ or on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prairieviewcounselingkc/

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Today Bryce will be talking to Alana Williams a special education teacher and Orton Gillingham (OG) instructor at Horizons Academy in Kansas City. Alana will explain what Dyslexia is and how to decode your child’s behavior to see if they might have Dyslexia. They will talk about steps to supporting your child with Dyslexia and how to advocate for them. Dyslexia is more common than you think, 1 in 5 children will have dyslexia and 80-90% of kids with learning disorders have it according to Dr. Sally Shaywitz with Yale Center for Dyslexia. Tune in to learn more about this learning disorder and to see if your child’s behavior might be a result of Dyslexia.

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Resources:

To find out more about Horizon’s Academy: https://horizon-academy.org/
To participate in a learning disability simulation: https://horizon-academy.org/learningdisabilityseries/
International Dyslexia Association: https://dyslexiaida.org/
Self Assessment for Dyslexia: https://dyslexiaida.org/dyslexia-test/
To learn more about Dyslexia: https://dyslexia.yale.edu/dyslexia/dyslexia-faq/

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Today Bryce will be talking to Special Education teacher Kayla Carney. They will be discussing the purpose of special education and who can benefit from the services provided. The great news is that all services provided to students are free within the public school system! There is a lot of mystery around special education and how to qualify for services. There’s also a lot of fear around children being labeled for both students and parents. Having your child in special education is a process and also a personal decision. They will discuss the factors to consider when navigating this process. 

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The most important thing that parents and caregivers can do is advocate for their child.

To find out more about the IDEA laws and process:

https://sites.ed.gov/idea/

https://sites.ed.gov/idea/about-idea/

How to connect to your states Department of Education:

https://sites.ed.gov/idea/states/

One example of how to request an evaluation for your student:

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Today Bryce will be sharing some of her favorite ways to connect with your child. Solving problems with your child and teen starts with a good relationship. The better your relationship with your child, the easier it will be to solve problems when things are hard. There is not any magic here, but the process of showing up to connect and teach them how to solve problems. Bryce will share strategies to get to know your child on a deeper level. Join us today to learn more and get started with these easy to implement tools and improve your relationship with your child right now!

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More about Dr. Gary Chapmans work: https://5lovelanguages.com/

Free 5 love languages assessment: https://5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/love-language

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We are so glad to have Katie Cedeno, LPC back for part 2 of helping your child navigate anxiety. Today Bryce and Katie will be talking about some important steps in helping your child navigate anxiety as well as how to manage it when it comes up and tools you can use to help prevent anxiety. There are some simple tricks that both kids and grown-ups can use to help our brains more quickly navigate anxiety. When anxiety pops up, it is hard to slow down but that is exactly what we need both as adults and as kids.

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Tools discussed in this episode:

“I” messages

      “I feel ___(emotion)____, when __(action/activity)__. 

       Because ____(why)___. I would like ____(what would be ideal)___”

      OR “I feel ___(emotion)___ because __(why)___.”

Logic, helpful vs unhelpful thoughts

Breathing, There are lots of great techniques out there, here are some examples:

https://www.headspace.com/meditation/breathing-exercises

Noticing patterns of behavior

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Today Bryce will be talking with Katie Cedeno, LPC in a 2-part episode about anxiety in our kids. So often anxiety can be missed because it looks like other undesirable behaviors. Come listen today to find out what behaviors might be anxiety in disguise as well as what factors contribute to anxiety. We will share some tips for helping parents manage their kid’s anxiety and how to notice patterns to stop the cycle. So often anxiety gets a bad rap but it’s just our brain trying to protect itself. Katie will break it down to make anxiety in our kids simple to understand.

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Today Bryce is interviewing a well regarded therapist in Kansas City, Leah Matheson LCPC and EMDRIA certified EMDR therapist. Leah and Bryce will talk about how important feelings are to navigating life with children. Spoiler Alert: As adults we have to talk about feelings too! In this podcast you will learn how to talk to your child about their feelings and your feelings to increase the comfort with feelings so that you can have less emotional outbursts. Our goal as parents is to be the thermostat and to set the tone for our reactions. Join us today to learn more about this important topic!

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If you would like to connect with Leah Matheson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-matheson-a411aa64

Books we love:
The Feelings Book by: Todd Parr
Babys Feelings by: Layla McGrath
In My Heart by: Jo Witek
Color Monster by: Anna Llenas
The Way I Feel by: Janan Cain
Little Spot of Feelings; Emotion Detective by: Diane Alber

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Bryce talks about what matters to her and her purpose of helping you to become the accidental experts! Sharing a very important tool about how to calm ourselves before responding to the children in our lives. Key take away, our responses to our children are more important than their responses. 

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Theres so much that goes into raising healthy humans, join us weekly to get new tips and suggestions.

An excellent resource for parenting tips – Dr. Ross Greene.

Learn the best way to take your pulse here.

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