Project Parenthood

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What's Project Parenthood about?

Stressed-out parent? Need a little help? Project Parenthood is your weekly guide to raising your kids with empathy while taking care of yourself, too. Host Dr. Nanika Coor is a clinical psychologist and respectful parenting advocate. She'll help you get a handle on toddler emotions, discipline your teens without punishment, and create more peace and collaboration in your home--all in just ten minutes a week.

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How to take responsibility ...

09.25.2023

You believe that because your child won’t change, the situation is hopeless—and you’re helpless to do anything about it.

Project Parenthood episodes:

09.25.2023 How to take responsibility for your parent-child relationship You believe that because your child won’t change, the situation is hopeless—and you’re helpless to do anything about it.
09.18.2023 How to have more peaceful playdates The anticipation of territorial disputes over toys, disagreements about games and play styles, fierce competitions, bouts of jealousy, and clashes in values can fill you with dread.
09.11.2023 How to tame the Homework Beast and reclaim family time As you try to help them dive into the assignments, it becomes painfully clear that this tortuous nightly ritual is anything but productive.
09.04.2023 How to help your sensitive child cope with back to school The start of a new school year can be challenging if your child is easily overstimulated and highly sensitive to change, social demands, and academic pressures.
08.28.2023 Connecting to your child with The Five Secrets of Effective Communication The Five Secrets are made up of three listening skills and two expressive skills: the disarming technique, thought empathy, feeling empathy, inquiry, assertiveness, and affirmation.
08.21.2023 Connecting to your child with Collaborative and Proactive Solutions Continuing with my month-long series on using elements of various communication approaches to improve your parent-child relationship, this week I’m talking about Collaborative and Proactive Solutions, or CPS for short.
08.14.2023 Connecting to your child with Parent Effectiveness Training Today’s episode is about using Parent Effectiveness Training to increase connection and trust in your relationship with your child.
08.07.2023 Connecting to your child with non-violent communication Nonviolent communication, or NVC, is a communication strategy—and also a lens through which you can look at life—that can be used to connect with others and resolve conflict in a respectful and compassionate way.
07.31.2023 How to foster anti-ableism in your child July is Disability Pride Month and today I’m talking about ways parents can help in the fight to change the ways society values people with disabilities.
07.24.2023 Using self-compassion to regulate your own emotions as a parent You’re going to have a really hard time providing that co-regulation if your own emotional regulation skills are shaky.
07.17.2023 How to Transition from One to Two Kids Proactively prepare for a second child by arranging for help and self-care way ahead of time.
07.10.2023 How to encourage your child's healthy body image Recently, a parent reached out to me about their concern for their daughter’s increasing body weight, along with their fear of passing on to her the unhealthy messages about weight they learned from their own parents.
07.03.2023 Summertime parenting hacks Whether it’s a trip to the grocery store or a 16-hour flight across the globe, a parent’s best defense is a good offense—in the form of preparation.
06.26.2023 Nurturing Your BIPOC LGBTQIA+ Child The theme for NYC Pride Month is “Strength in Solidarity,'' reflecting the power and resiliency of the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies. In this episode, Dr. Nanika Coor shares tips for ‘inoculating’ BIPOC LGBTQIA+ kids against the slings and arrows ...
06.19.2023 How to talk to kids about Juneteenth and the fight for equality The theme for NYC Pride Month is “Strength in Solidarity”, reflecting the power and resiliency of the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies.
06.12.2023 How to thrive as an LGBTQIA+ parent In many ways, raising emotionally healthy kids is no different for LGBTQIA+ parents than it is for any other parents—but they have different challenges to face.
06.05.2023 How to be in solidarity with your LGBTQIA+ child Here are some ideas for creating a safe and affirming home for your LGBTQIA+ child.
05.29.2023 Understanding your child's sensory processing challenges Sensory processing is a complex process in which your child’s senses gather information from the environment and send it back to their brain for interpretation and response.
05.22.2023 How to get past parental perfectionism The challenges of being a perfectionist, how this might affect your child, and ideas for developing a healthier mindset.
05.15.2023 The First Step to Solve Child Behavior Problems Finding it difficult to use respectful parenting tools? If your relationship with your child is adversarial, you may need to repair your relationship first. Dr. Nanika Coor offers tips for repairing your bond to help lay the foundation for respectful ...
05.08.2023 Brain boosters: powering up your child's executive functioning Executive functioning (EF) refers to a set of mental processes that give you the ability to organize, plan, and execute complex tasks.
05.01.2023 How to understand your child’s temperament Temperament is believed to be innate, meaning it is present at birth and remains relatively stable throughout a person's life.
04.24.2023 How autism is different for girls and women Many women don’t consider an autism diagnosis for themselves until their children are diagnosed with autism and they begin to learn more about it. What they learn begins to resonate with their own struggles with similar challenges in their own ...
04.17.2023 How to teach your child about body boundaries If a child knows their “No” will be respected, they begin to understand it as wrong if it is not respected, and that people can and should assert their boundaries when they don’t like what’s happening to them.
04.10.2023 How to tell the difference between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder April is Autism Acceptance Month, which is a time to uplift, affirm, and validate autistic voices, celebrate autism as a part of human diversity, and promote more community inclusivity and accessibility to support all autistic people.
04.03.2023 Should you punish your ADHD child? Is it effective to punish kids for neurological deficits and/or delays over which they have no control?
03.27.2023 Does your child have an eating disorder? Today I’m talking about the warning signs of eating disorders and tips for helping your child move toward healing and recovery.
03.20.2023 How to help a sore loser or gloating winner Winning or losing games can bring up a lot of emotions for anyone, but young kids often struggle on their journey to learning about and developing good sportsmanship.
03.13.2023 How to resist grind culture in your family What if we pushed back against the lie that we are “lazy” if we don’t want to work 24/7?
03.06.2023 How to motivate your child to change unwanted behaviors In today’s episode, I’m talking about encouraging your child’s intrinsic motivation to change unhelpful behaviors—meaning, changing because it’s satisfying for them to do so—not because they’ll get a reward or avoid a reprimand.
02.27.2023 Finding neurodiversity-affirming therapy for Black neurodivergent kids with Dr. Loucresie Rupert You’re going to hear about the double marginalization of being Black and neurodivergent, and how to find neurodiversity-informing care for your child.
02.20.2023 The Talk: preparing Black kids for a racist world with Dr. Riana Elyse Anderson You’re going to hear about how to cultivate cultural pride in Black children, and how to gain confidence in talking about racial bias and racism.
02.13.2023 Raising multi-racial kids with Dr. Jennifer Noble You’re going to hear about how to prepare your multiracial child for the realities of anti-Blackness, and how to help them handle microaggressions from family.
02.06.2023 Tips for White parents raising Black children with Abby Hasberry You’re going to hear about how to prepare your Black child for the realities of racism, how to help them process when they are personally impacted by it.
01.30.2023 How to reduce parental stress with mindfulness Stick around till the end to hear about what to do when you realize in retrospect that you could have behaved more mindfully with your child.
01.23.2023 Troubleshooting family sleep issues with Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown Stick around till the end to learn how the labels you use to describe your child’s sleep habits might be getting in the way of their sleep!
01.16.2023 How to cope when your child has a favorite parent Children showing favoritism towards one parent is very common, especially in the toddler years.
01.09.2023 How to support your child's neurodiversity As I delve deeper into working with parents whose children meet criteria for the PDA diagnostic label, I’m learning more and more about neurodiversity—and why it’s so important to not only support but affirm a person’s neurodiversity.
01.02.2023 Tips for more connected parenting in the new year In western culture, the new year traditionally brings with it desires to commit to new habits, recommit to current habits, finally tie up loose ends or repair previous wrongs.
12.26.2022 8 ways to help your child develop gratitude and thankfulness Help your child develop gratitude by showing authentic feelings of gratitude and appreciation in your day-to-day life.
12.19.2022 Stop forcing your child to apologize So great, the kid said “sorry”—but did that kid actually take responsibility for having impacted another person in an upsetting way for them?
12.12.2022 Why threats, punishment, and adult-imposed consequences backfire Parents new to respectful parenting are often completely confused about what to do about their child’s unwanted behaviors if they don’t impose “consequences” when their child engages in activities they consider unacceptable.
12.05.2022 How to handle holiday parenting stress While there are some parents who are fondly looking forward to connecting with family members, others are dreading the less positive aspects of meeting up with far-flung family.
11.28.2022 10 Ways to Help Your Child Cooperate Without Using Punishments How do you respond when your child breaks rules or flat-out refuses to do what you’ve asked?
11.21.2022 How to ditch "chores" and still teach your child responsibility What happens when you take the focus away from obligatory chores and the outcome of kids’ help—like the dishes being put away—and you focus on your relationship with your child, collaboration, and social learning?
11.14.2022 How to handle after-school meltdowns What you’re seeing is what counselor and parent educator Andrea Loewen Nair calls “restraint collapse.”
11.07.2022 How to cope when your partner doesn't use respectful parenting The challenges that come with co-parenting with a partner who isn’t on board (yet?) with respectful parenting.
10.31.2022 Halting Halloween Candy Conflicts Putting restrictions on your child's eating habits can lead to your child developing worse habits later in life. Trust your child to regulate their own hunger and food consumption while setting them up for success using the sDOR method.
10.24.2022 Why "good enough" parenting is better than "perfect" When you strive for perfection as a parent, you’re setting yourself up to be repeatedly disappointed in yourself—because you just can’t be perfect.
10.17.2022 How to set limits and hold boundaries Boundaries and limits are a regular topic in the world of parenting. Parents want to know when and how to use them—and how to stick to them.

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