The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Kris Holmes is a single parent with a background in sales and non-profit management. They are called to coach alongside single parents and to see them grow in confidence, care for self, boundaries with their kids, and to ultimately enjoy parenting as a JOY and release the OBLIGATIONS of what you were told it should be or look like. The year that I stopped spanking and started releasing obligations in parenting was the year that it all started coming together for me and those that I began serving and coaching. Parenting is a journey not a destination and along the journey let’s build a fun and fierce community of advocates for you, your kids, and your community.

ABOUT HEYKIDDO™

The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com

Thanks for listening to HeyKiddo! If you like what you hear, give us a review wherever you listen. Have a question for our experts? Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram at @heykiddoapp

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Terri Hennessy (she/her) is Educational Director and Lead Teacher at Philly Montessori. Terri has been a Montessori Early Childhood educator since 2013 when she received her AMS teaching credential. In addition to teaching children, Terri also works with adults, both as a Teacher Educator for adults studying for their Montessori certifications, and as a consultant. Terri co-founded Blossoming Beyond the Binary, which is an organization dedicated to educating teachers and parents about gender diversity and inclusion education. Terri has presented workshops about gender education at multiple American Montessori Society conferences, as well as at conferences given by local, state run Montessori organizations across the country. As part of her gender education work Terri co-created an online class for Montessori Centre Internationale called The Inclusive Classroom: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Early Years. Terri has been published in Montessori Life magazine and The Montessori World Review, and consults with local Montessori and traditional preschools, presenting various professional development courses focusing on creating inclusive environments and educating about gender and sexuality in early childhood education.

Rye Josloff is an American Montessori Society credentialed and elementary certified teacher of 9-12 year-olds at First State Montessori charter school in Wilmington, Delaware. Rye is involved with ABAR (anti-bias, anti-racist) organizing at both a local and national level within the field of education. Rye has led educators in creating and sustaining LGBTQIA+ affirming school and classroom environments, including working with people of all ages to break down biases and form more complex understandings of gender. Some things that inspire and excite Rye are art, podcasts, all things food-related, games, etymology, entomology, belt buckles, books, and their city of Philadelphia. Rye identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them.

ABOUT HEYKIDDO™

The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com

Thanks for listening to HeyKiddo! If you like what you hear, give us a review wherever you listen. Have a question for our experts? Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram at @heykiddoapp

The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com

Thanks for listening to HeyKiddo! If you like what you hear, give us a review wherever you listen. Have a question for our experts? Let us know at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram at @heykiddoapp

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan has been supporting K-12 students with diverse learning needs since 2004 as a pediatric speech-language pathologist. She spent 14 years in the public schools working with students receiving specialized services while completing her doctorate in special education. In 2015, she started an online continuing education company where she shares information for parents and educators of kids with disabilities. Currently, she creates resources for parents of kids who have conditions like ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other diagnoses that impact learning and attention. She’s the host of the Are They 18 Yet? Podcast, a show focused on sharing practical day-to-day solutions to help kids become responsible, well-adjusted, compassionate people, as well as actionable advice for supporting systemic change now and for future generations. She’s also a wife, step-mom, runner, and dog mom.

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ABOUT HEYKIDDO™

The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com

Thanks for listening to HeyKiddo! If you like what you hear, give us a review wherever you listen. Have a question for our experts? Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram at @heykiddoapp

The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com

Thanks for listening to HeyKiddo! If you like what you hear, give us a review wherever you listen. Have a question for our experts? Let us know at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram at @heykiddoapp

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Sonali Mahajan is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who was born in India and immigrated to the US at a very young age. She grew up in TN and completed her General Psychiatry residency and fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta. Since that time, Dr. Mahajan has worked in different states and held a variety of positions, including those in academics, public mental health, family court, and both for-profit and non-profit institutions. She brings a wealth of training and clinical experience to her work.

She and her family moved to NJ in 2019, and she works at Hackensack Meridian Health systems in the Pediatric Psychiatry Collaborative Program and also has her private practice in Millburn, NJ. Her main focus with the practice is to provide high quality evaluations and ongoing care to children, adolescents, and their families. During her down time, she enjoys traveling, spending time outdoors with her family, cooking, and gardening.

ABOUT HEYKIDDO™

The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com

Thanks for listening to HeyKiddo! If you like what you hear, give us a review wherever you listen. Have a question for our experts? Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram at @heykiddoapp

The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com

Thanks for listening to HeyKiddo! If you like what you hear, give us a review wherever you listen. Have a question for our experts? Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram at @heykiddoapp

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Hilary Katz received her Master’s in Social Work in 1999 from Simmons College School of Social Work.  For over 20 years, Hilary has provided individual, group, couples and family therapy in both school and private practice settings. Hilary has contributed throughout the years to newspapers, family magazines and college zines and blogs as well as offered her expertise for news and tv outlets in the tristate area. Hilary also has provided and continues to provide workshops on communicating and collaborating with children to educators, parents/caretakers, and organizations that work with children outside of the school system.   Hilary pulls from the philosophy that both children as well as adults do well if they can and uses the Cognitive Behavioral model to learn how to do better and feel better. Hilary stresses that  life is full of tricky spots and if a person is struggling it certainly is not because they want to. Hilary’s main goal with all her clients is to learn how to identify their lagging skills that cause them to get stuck and ultimately strengthen them in order to grow and live a more productive, fulfilling life. Hilary is known to push her clients to understand the value of  getting uncomfortable in order to grow, but she also  utilizes the power of humor as well as creativity to teach and reinforce developing skills.

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The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com

Thanks for listening to HeyKiddo! If you like what you hear, give us a review wherever you listen. Have a question for our experts? Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram at @heykiddoapp

The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com

Thanks for listening to HeyKiddo! If you like what you hear, give us a review wherever you listen. Have a question for our experts? Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram at @heykiddoapp