Being A Parent Is Hard!

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's episode focuses on the important role of friendships in a teenager's development and sense of well-being, as well as the concerns that these friendships and some teens' desperation for them, can hold. We talk about how adolescent friendships play a central role in identity development, self-esteem, the process of separation, and the teen's sense of belonging. We also focus on how social pressures that go against family values, social media, bullying, and experiences of exclusion, can have a devastating impact on a teen's sense of self. Please join us as we focus on the risks and rewards of adolescent friendships and how parents can voice and manage their concerns.

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Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This episode features our special guest Randi Zimmerman, LCSW-R, CEDS-S and owner of The Time is Always Now Therapy Group. Ms. Zimmerman joins us to talk about the family, cultural , and psychological forces that contribute to disordered eating in children and teenagers and offers guidance to help parents to identify and manage food-related issues within families. We also talk about the importance of understanding the pressures of social media related to food, weight, body image and self-esteem and the need for parents to be aware of their own emotional baggage around these issues. We hope you can join us for this very important episode.

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Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's episode, Raising Boys With Emotion, focuses on the challenge of raising strong, healthy, emotionally intelligent young men. Cultural pressures and our own unconscious biases often leads boys to feel that they shouldn't experience more vulnerable feelings such as fear, anxiety, dependency, and hurt. This sometimes results in a hypermasculinity in which strength gets confused with aggression, protectiveness becomes control, and a disdain for all things vulnerable becomes pervasive. At other times, overwhelming feelings of anxiety, self-loathing, and shame result from a boy's very normal experience of feelings that they have been socialized to believe are not appropriate for boys. Please join us as we discuss the challenge of raising healthy, resilient boys who have access to a full range of human emotions.

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Welcome to our latest episode of Being a Parent is Hard. Postpartum Anxiety and Depression: An Untimely Agony focuses on the struggle with postpartum anxiety and depression that affects millions of women. We will dive into the very normal experiences of stress, irritability, and isolation that can easily turn into a much more devastating postpartum syndrome. Join us as we discuss both the of the causes of and the strategies to manage postpartum emotional struggles.. Please tune into this very important episode.

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Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! Our new episode, What is Mom Guilt and Why Do So Many of Us Have It, talks about why moms are especially prone to feel guilty, what we tend to feel guilty about, and how best to manage this very uncomfortable feeling. We discuss how mom guilt is related to each person's unique childhood and the way we are all socialized as women. Perhaps most importantly, we talk about how to avoid passing this down to our daughters and how to model having balance and self-care in our lives. We share personal stories, clinical insights, and practical suggestions. We hope you can join us!

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Welcome to this week's episode of Being a Parent is Hard! In this episode we focus understanding adolescent depression--what it looks like, how it's different from normal teenage moodiness and irritability, and what parents should do when they are concerned. We discuss when it's time to seek therapy, consider medication, or head to the emergency room. We also talk about the all important question, "Why now?" We share clinical insights and hands on advice as we take a deep dive into the hormonal, academic, social, and emotional pressures that collide in adolescence. Please join us!

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Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's episode focuses on the art of transparent communication with your children and teens. We discuss how to set limits, communicate values, and have honest discussions while still respecting our own need for personal boundaries as parents. We also talk about the need for timing--not trying to communicate in depth when either we or they are upset and not over-communicating in hopes of staving off their anger. Please join us as we share clinical insights and personal anecdotes about learning the art of transparent communication.

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Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! Is your older teen or young adult child feeling lost and unsure of what field or job to pursue? In this week's episode, founder of Choice Training and Coaching Solutions, Janine Friedman, discusses her "Ready, Aim. Fire" approach to helping older teens and young adults prepare for entering the workplace. Her job coaching focuses on helping her clients better understand their values, dreams, and unique strengths to determine what kinds of jobs will best meet their needs. Janine talks about the stressors and pressures of entering the workforce in today's cray world and how parents can take a hands-on approach to helping their kids with this crucial challenge. Please join us!

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Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's episode, Living Among the Mean Moms, focuses on why some moms are unkind, even downright cruel, to other moms and/or other people's children. Whether it's gossiping, bullying, or excluding others, managing mean moms and teaching your children to manage this kind of difficult behavior, is an important survival skill in today's crazy world. When parents prize academic, social, or athletic competitiveness over basic values and kindness, thoughtless and hurtful behavior often ensues. Please join us for some professional insights, strategies, and personal stories about this potentially very painful topic.

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Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! Our new episode focuses on the extraordinary stress of having to care for our aging and declining parents while still caring for our own children, teens, and young adults. We talk about the very complicated emotional difficulties and time and energy demands that caring for our parents often entails. And we offer personal reflections and professional advice about surviving this very challenging stage of life. This is a phase that is rarely talked about until you are in the thick of it. Please join us for this very important discussion.

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