Parenting Understood

On today’s Pinot and Parenting, we are thrilled to have with us Ria Simon, a community ambassador from HiMamam and a former educator in elementary schools.. Ria will be talking with us about the importance of building strong parent/teacher relationships and different methods and strategies that you can use to foster strong bonds with your children’s teachers or for educators how to best interact with your student’s parents. We will examine how to speak about difficult conversations and how to create engaging conversations without being overbearing. 

To learn more about Ria Simon and HiMama, please check out himama.com and The Preschool Podcast

Today, we go back to episode 14 to visit the controversial topic of corporal punishment. Our guest Jorge Cuartas will discuss some of the negative consequences that can be associated with corporal punishment. We hope you enjoy and we will be back soon with new episodes!

Today we are excited to be joined by Jorge Cuartas. Jorge is a PhD candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-author of Corporal Punishment and Elevated Neural Response to Threat in Children. He researches the negative impacts of violence including harsh discipline as it impacts children. He recently addressed the House of Representatives in Colombia as they consider a federal ban on corporal punishment.

In one study, nearly half of parents interviewed were found to have spanked their children with one third having done so in the last week. Jorge will discuss with us the negative and dangerous impacts of spanking and corporal punishment. While spanking is often done with the intention of creating good behavior, Jorge will present how the effects can actually be the opposite.

Today, we will go back to episode 10 in which we cover of racial socialization of children and learning to talk about race. We think this is one of the most important topics we have covered and we hope that you enjoy it.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Briggite Vittrup, department chair of Human Development, Family Studies, and Counseling at Texas Woman’s University. Dr. Vittrup’s academic and research interests include racial socialization; children's racial attitudes; child discipline; and media influences on children.Our conversation focuses on the important topic of discussing race with your young children. While this is often an uncomfortable discussion point, Dr. Vittrup explains why it is essential to have these topics and not avoid them. Dr. Vittrup explains the do’s and don'ts of talking about race and how to use a color conscious approach for speaking with children. She also provides useful resources on ways to begin these conversations. t

Resources mentioned in episode:Book : All the Colors We Are/Todos los colores de nuestra piel: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color/La historia de por qué tenemos diferentes colores de piel by Katie Kissinger

Book: Something Happened in Our Town (A Child's Story About Racial Injustice) by Marianne Celano

Teachingtolerance.org

Embracerace.org

You can find more information on Dr. Vittrup at https://apps.twu.edu/my1cv/profile.aspx?type=twp&id=4pCl%2bq%2b7SWo4Rjfa%2fZ3otQ%3d%3d&dept=humandev

Today, we will go back to episode 7 in which we cover the important topic of how to utilize time outs with your children. We hope you enjoy this episode and please remember to revisit and review all our other episodes. Happy New Year!

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Jeanne Donaldson on the topic of giving time outs to children. Dr. Donaldson earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Florida and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Her research focuses on solving problems common in early childhood and assessing child and adult interventions. After this episode, you will understand the different aspects that go into giving a child time out, considerations on when to use the time out strategy, and easier ways to implement an effective time out!

If you are curious and want to learn more about time-out from positive reinforcement, Michelle has several free resources available on her Instagram Account @thriving.toddler. 

Visit the guide section that includes seven posts on “Time Away From Positive Reinforcement.” You can also download the time-out check list here:  https://www.thrivingtoddler.com/time-out-opt-in

Today, we will go back to episode 20 in which we cover the important topic of using data to make parental decisions. We think this topic is a great follow up to last week’s episode on choosing a preschool. With the start of the new year, resolutions and goals are made and this can include parenting ones. This episode will help to show how you can use data to influence these future new goals or resolutions. We hope you enjoy this episode and please remember to revisit and review all our other episodes. Happy New Year!

We are excited to be joined by Professor Emily Oster. Emily is a Professor of Economics at Brown University and the author of Expecting Better, Cribsheet, and The Family Firm. She holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard. Prior to being at Brown she was on the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Emily’s books analyze the data behind choices on parenting and pregnancy. Emily will be discussing with us her most recent book, The Family Firm, which takes a data driven approach to help parents think more deliberately about key issues in the elementary school years including sleep, school, health, extra curricular activities and more. Emily will present to us how you can immediately apply frameworks and concepts to utilize the date in your life for making best decisions for your children.

You can find more information on Emily Oster, her books and research, and join her bi-weekly mailing list at emilyoster.net. You can also connect with Emily via Twitter and Instagram @ProfEmilyOster

Today, we will go back to episode 24 in which we cover the important topic of choosing a preschool. We think the start of the new year is an excellent time to begin your research on what factors are important to you for choosing your child’s preschool. We hope you enjoy this episode and please remember to revisit and review all our other episodes. Happy Holidays!

We are thrilled to have back with us Dr. Meghan McCormick, Research Associate at MDRC and lead researcher on Boston’s Public Pre-Kindergarten Project. Dr McCormick has extensive research experience examining the roles of the home, school and neighborhood contexts on children’s development. Today Dr. McCormick will be speaking with us on the topic of preschool and how it impacts children's growth and development. Some factors we will be examining are choosing a preschool, how to determine environments that best support learning, and what is considered a “high quality” program.

You can learn more about Dr. Meghan McCormick by visiting https://www.mdrc.org/about/meghan-mccormick or by email at [email protected]

While we are out for the holiday break, we would like to rebroadcast some of our favorite and important episodes. Today, we will go back to episode 12 in which we cover the importance of tackling sleep problems. We hope you enjoy this episode and please remember to revisit and review all our other episodes. Happy Holidays!

In this episode, we will hear from Dr. Gregory Hanley, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, past Associate Editor of The Behavior Analyst, and past Editor of Behavior Analysis in Practice and of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters primarily focused on the assessment, treatment, and prevention of problem behavior and sleep problems, teaching strategies for developing life skills, and empirically-derived values for practitioners. Dr. Hanley currently advises doctoral candidates as a Research Professor at WNEU, serves as an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and leads FTF Behavioral, the international training and consulting group based in Worcester, Massachusetts. 

Dr. Hanley will discuss the common sleep problems that most children experience and explain how behavioral intervention management and function based approaches and strategies can be successfully used to combat some of these sleep challenges. 

You can find more information on Dr Hanley and his free sleep assessment tool at the link below:

https://practicalfunctionalassessment.com/ and https://ftfbc.com/

We are delighted to be joined in a two-part episode with Dr. Sarah Bren to speak on the topic of Covid, and the related stressors and anxiety that parents and children experienced throughout this pandemic. We will explore the ways that parents can cope with past and new stressors that have entered our lives, as well as, our children’s lives including navigating relationships, friendships, school, and social skills. Dr. Bren is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in psychodynamic and relationship based approaches to working with children and families. She is particularly passionate about equipping parents with tools to understand the building blocks of child development and how secure relationships form and thrive. Her work is focused on parents finding their inner confidence to respond to any parenting problems.

You can also learn more about Dr. Sarah Bren by visiting her webpage at https://drsarahbren.com/ and Instagram @drsarahbren. Our second part, where we discuss more stress resolutions,  will exist on Dr. Sarah Bren’s podcast “Securely Attached”, and will air on December 14th.

Today we are excited to be joined by the mother of four boys and author of “We All Like Different Things and That's A-OK With Me!” and “Tilly Toad's Heavy Load”, Jo Dodd. Jo will speak to us regarding her journey to becoming an author, and how her children have become an inspiration and guiding force for her book series. Additionally, we will speak with Jo on ways to incorporate one’s own jobs and experiences into the lives of one’s children. Finally, we are excited to speak about Jo's soon to be available picture book for moms.

You can find Jo’s books for purchase online at livinginjotopoia.com, and you can learn more about Jo by following her on Instagram at livinginjotopia

We are pleased to be joined today by Dr. Clancy Blair. Dr. Blair is a developmental psychologist, who studies self-regulation in young children. His primary interest concerns the development of cognitive abilities, referred to as executive functions, and the ways in which these aspects of cognition are important for school readiness and early school achievement. He is also interested in the development and evaluation of preschool and elementary school curricula designed to promote executive functions as a means of preventing school failure. Prior to coming to NYU, Blair spent ten years as an Assistant and then Associate Professor in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State. 

Dr. Blair will be speaking with us regarding self-regulation, and the different stages that can be expected in children as they age from infants to adolescents. We will also explore the ways in which the environment can impact self-regulation, and how parents can utilize different strategies for trying to best promote positive self-regulation.

If you would like to learn more about the work of Dr. Blair, you can visit his Google Scholar page at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=duCRaqgAAAAJ&hl=en