Be a Problem Solver Podcast

Teen anxiety is on the rise lately. We are seeing it everywhere. In this episode, we are talking about the 3 reasons why we are seeing a big spike. 

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We are so glad you're here! At Be a Problem Solver Services, our goal is to help parents raise decent humans in a digital world. Need more help addressing social media use, teenage transitions, or essential workplace skills with your child? Check out our online coaching services here:

www.beaproblemsolverservices.com/services

Be a Problem Solver Services are Kate (M.Ed., CCC-SLP) and Cory (Ph.D., LCMHC, NCC) - a wife speech pathologist and husband mental mental health counselor who focus on bringing you information about social skill development and character building. We both practice independently, and then come together to collaborate on important social skills issues that we hear from our clients over and over again!

The #1 question we've been asked since the sign-up for our free training this week: How do I get my teen's screen time back on track since being too lax during the pandemic?

The answer probably isn't what you think!

We will be discussing this method and other strategies in our free workshops this week. Click here to sign up: The Hidden Secret to Implementing Technology Boundaries at Home. You'll also get our Digital Era Weekly Family Planner FREE with sign up! Woot! If you miss the videos, they will be emailed to you, so don't worry. 

We are so glad you're here! At Be a Problem Solver Services, our goal is to help parents raise decent humans in a digital world. Need more help addressing social media use, teenage transitions, or essential workplace skills with your child? Check out our online coaching services here:

www.beaproblemsolverservices.com/services

Be a Problem Solver Services are Kate (M.Ed., CCC-SLP) and Cory (Ph.D., LCMHC, NCC) - a wife speech pathologist and husband mental mental health counselor who focus on bringing you information about social skill development and character building. We both practice independently, and then come together to collaborate on important social skills issues that we hear from our clients over and over again!

Our guest today is Lori Long from the The Childhood Collective. She shares her knowledge of ADHD diagnosis and gives helpful tips for prioritizing ADHD and related services. 

Don't forget, if you're interested in helping your teen motivate and mobilize this summer, grab our free e-book for t(w)een motivation and get your teen off the couch👇🏽👇🏽

https://beaproblemsolverservices.com/free-resources/

We are so glad you're here! At Be a Problem Solver Services, our goal is to help parents raise decent humans in a digital world. Need more help addressing social media use, teenage transitions, or essential workplace skills with your child? Check out our online coaching services here:

www.beaproblemsolverservices.com/services

Be a Problem Solver Services are Kate (M.Ed., CCC-SLP) and Cory (Ph.D., LCMHC, NCC) - a wife speech pathologist and husband mental mental health counselor who focus on bringing you information about social skill development and character building. We both practice independently, and then come together to collaborate on important social skills issues that we hear from our clients over and over again!

Today's episode reviews an article about perspective taking in adolescents. The full article can be found here:

Nilsen, E. S., & Bacso, S. A. (2017). Cognitive and behavioural predictors of adolescents' communicative perspective-taking and social relationships. Journal of Adolescence, 56, 52–52.

To sign up for the free video series The Hidden Secret to Setting Technology Boundaries, click here. The series starts the week of June 22, 2020. 

Don't forget, if you're interested in helping your teen motivate and mobilize this summer, grab our free e-book for t(w)een motivation and get your teen off the couch👇🏽👇🏽

https://beaproblemsolverservices.com/free-resources/

We are so glad you're here! At Be a Problem Solver Services, our goal is to help parents raise decent humans in a digital world. Need more help addressing social media use, teenage transitions, or essential workplace skills with your child? Check out our online coaching services here:

www.beaproblemsolverservices.com/services

Be a Problem Solver Services are Kate (M.Ed., CCC-SLP) and Cory (Ph.D., LCMHC, NCC) - a wife speech pathologist and husband mental mental health counselor who focus on bringing you information about social skill development and character building. We both practice independently, and then come together to collaborate on important social skills issues that we hear from our clients over and over again!

Today, Mike McLeod from GrowNowTherapy is talking to us all about the role that language plays in executive functioning. This concept has become a buzz word in the world of ADHD and many clinicians and parents are finding that honing these skills lead to big outcomes. 

Don't forget, if you're interested in helping your teen motivate and mobilize this summer, grab our free e-book for t(w)een motivation and get your teen off the couch👇🏽👇🏽

https://beaproblemsolverservices.com/free-resources/

We are so glad you're here! At Be a Problem Solver Services, our goal is to help parents raise decent humans in a digital world. Need more help addressing social media use, teenage transitions, or essential workplace skills with your child? Check out our online coaching services here:

www.beaproblemsolverservices.com/services

Be a Problem Solver Services are Kate (M.Ed., CCC-SLP) and Cory (Ph.D., LCMHC, NCC) - a wife speech pathologist and husband mental mental health counselor who focus on bringing you information about social skill development and character building. We both practice independently, and then come together to collaborate on important social skills issues that we hear from our clients over and over again!

Summer is here! And today we are talking about using a be-do-have model to help our teens get motivated this summer. To get our free e-book, Get Your Teen Away from the Screen: 5 Ways to Motivate your Teen and Create Habits That Stick, head to our website here:

https://beaproblemsolverservices.com/free-resources/

We are so glad you're here! At Be a Problem Solver Services, our goal is to help parents raise decent humans in a digital world. Need more help addressing social media use, teenage transitions, or essential workplace skills with your child? Check out our online coaching services here:

www.beaproblemsolverservices.com/services

Be a Problem Solver Services are Kate (M.Ed., CCC-SLP) and Cory (Ph.D., LCMHC, NCC) - a wife speech pathologist and husband mental mental health counselor who focus on bringing you information about social skill development and character building. We both practice independently, and then come together to collaborate on important social skills issues that we hear from our clients over and over again!

On this week's Facts on Friday episode, we are talking about the census from Common Sense Media released in Winter 2019. 1600 tweens and teens were surveyed about their media use, and we think the numbers may surprise you. We also talk about the documentary film Screened Out, released in May 2020. Click here to check it out. 

You can view the full census here:

https://bit.ly/3g4ZtJo

Parents, when we have kids think that the baby years are the hardest... but if you're like most you realize that the teen years is really when you need help. What would if be like for you if everything wasn't a fight and a struggle? What would it be like if your kid started conversations with you and it wasn't like pulling teeth? What would it be like if your kids actually followed technology boundaries without putting up a fight? The good news is, all of this is possible and it doesn't HAVE to be a fight. We've laid this all out in order to get to this place, in our framework. If you want to hear about how this can be possible for you, then let's set up a call! Send us an email at [email protected] or click the link below:

https://beaproblemsolverservices.com/groupcoaching-2/ 

We are so glad you're here! At Be a Problem Solver Services, our goal is to help parents raise decent humans in a digital world. Need more help addressing social media use, teenage transitions, or essential workplace skills with your child? Check out our online coaching services here:

www.beaproblemsolverservices.com/services

Be a Problem Solver Services are Kate (M.Ed., CCC-SLP) and Cory (Ph.D., LCMHC, NCC) - a wife speech pathologist and husband mental mental health counselor who focus on bringing you information about social skill development and character building. We both practice independently, and then come together to collaborate on important social skills issues that we hear from our clients over and over again!

Today we are talking about 5 essential social skills that are necessary for life and the workforce in today's times, but are not practiced nearly enough. In fact, they are hard to practice from behind a screen. 

See the infographics for these skills here. 

We are so glad you're here! At Be a Problem Solver Services, our goal is to help parents raise decent humans in a digital world. Need more help addressing social media use, teenage transitions, or essential workplace skills with your child? Check out our online coaching services here:

www.beaproblemsolverservices.com/services

Be a Problem Solver Services are Kate (M.Ed., CCC-SLP) and Cory (Ph.D., LCMHC, NCC) - a wife speech pathologist and husband mental mental health counselor who focus on bringing you information about social skill development and character building. We both practice independently, and then come together to collaborate on important social skills issues that we hear from our clients over and over again!

On this week's Facts on Friday episode, we talking about a great resource for learning about labeling and sharing emotions: Permission to Feel, by Marc Brackett. We love his work sharing his lessons learned from his position as founder and director at Yale's School for Emotional Intelligence. 

Check out his book here (#aflink):

https://amzn.to/2T003yj

Parents, when we have kids think that the baby years are the hardest... but if you're like most you realize that the teen years is really when you need help. What would if be like for you if everything wasn't a fight and a struggle? What would it be like if your kid started conversations with you and it wasn't like pulling teeth? What would it be like if your kids actually followed technology boundaries without putting up a fight? The good news is, all of this is possible and it doesn't HAVE to be a fight. We've laid this all out in order to get to this place, in our framework. If you want to hear about how this can be possible for you, then let's set up a call! Send us an email at [email protected] or click the link below:

https://beaproblemsolverservices.com/groupcoaching-2/ 

We are so glad you're here! At Be a Problem Solver Services, our goal is to help parents raise decent humans in a digital world. Need more help addressing social media use, teenage transitions, or essential workplace skills with your child? Check out our online coaching services here:

www.beaproblemsolverservices.com/services

Be a Problem Solver Services are Kate (M.Ed., CCC-SLP) and Cory (Ph.D., LCMHC, NCC) - a wife speech pathologist and husband mental mental health counselor who focus on bringing you information about social skill development and character building. We both practice independently, and then come together to collaborate on important social skills issues that we hear from our clients over and over again!

In our interview with Wendy Bertagnole of the Exceptional Parenting Podcast, we talk about Wendy's awesome perspective on sensory preferences. She does an incredible job of explaining how we all have sensory preferences, and how these preferences shape our likes and dislikes, as well as mediate how we interact with the world. 

Get her free PDF here:

http://wendybertagnole.com/sensory-challenge/

We are so glad you're here! At Be a Problem Solver Services, our goal is to help parents raise decent humans in a digital world. Need more help addressing social media use, teenage transitions, or essential workplace skills with your child? Check out our online coaching services here:

www.beaproblemsolverservices.com/services

Be a Problem Solver Services are Kate (M.Ed., CCC-SLP) and Cory (Ph.D., LCMHC, NCC) - a wife speech pathologist and husband mental mental health counselor who focus on bringing you information about social skill development and character building. We both practice independently, and then come together to collaborate on important social skills issues that we hear from our clients over and over again!