What We Were Never Taught: Relationships, Marriage & Family — From Parenting Doctors

What We Were Never Taught: Relationships, Marriage & Family — From Parenting Doctors

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What We Were Never Taught: Relationships, Marriage & Family — From Parenting Doctors episodes

  • Anger: Identification, Self-Soothing Strategies, & Anger Rehearsals
    Helping our children manage their anger is extremely critical for well-being and the long-term success of their future.  There are several things we can do to help our children manage their anger.  The first and most important element for families is for parents to see "expressing anger appropriately" as a positive for family well-being.
    5 min
  • Resolving Blind Spots To Prevent Conditional Love

    The last thing

    kids need is conditional love. Instead, they need unconditional love.  No matter what kids do, healthy parents will
    love them no matter what.  Drugs, teenage
    pregnancy, juveline detention, not getting Ivy League scholarships, not winning,
    not breaking records, misspelling on tests, etc.  All of these things and more prevent unconditional love.  Why is that?  There are many reasons for conditional love.  One of those reasons are those particular blind spots that we have as parents, that are related to family of origin issues.   Bring resolution to these unresolved blind spots takes some work but has been successfully done by 1000's of people.  Work in therapy can help resolve these blind spots.  The goal is to love our children unconditionally.  

    5 min
  • Why Losing Is Great For Kids!
    There are so many advantages to losing a basketball game and as parents we can turn losses into life lessons, emotional resilience, and the ability to embrace adversity like amazing cancer survivors Tiffany Powles Garber or my sister Katherine Colino who embraced adversity and defeated cancer (with God's help). Let's join together and teach our kids life lessons as we value losing and failing for something better.
    7 min
  • Facilitating Courage In The Family: Bravery & Vulnerability
    Facilitating Courage In The Family: Bravery & Vulnerability

    Facilitating courage has to go beyond belief - and to personal impact.  I provide 3 Keys to applying courage in the family.

    1.  Reinforce effort more than outcome.
    2.  Share moments of breakthroughs with your children.  
    3.  Take the time to be vulnerable.  

    We are talking about acceptance and courage to be vulnerability.
    7 min
  • How to improve communication between a teacher and parent when a child has a behavior problem in the classroom
    How to improve communication between a teacher
    and parent when a child has a behavior problem in the classroom.

    If your teacher is dealing with behavior problems with your

    child, and gives you a vague explanation, try to ask for a specific
    example.  If they can’t, ask him or her
    if they would be willing to write down the incident so you can walk your child
    through the incident and what could have been done to handle it
    differently.  Likewise, when parents
    describe behavior to other

    parents, specific details are important.  


    7 min
  • 5 Keys To Reducing Experienced & Perceived Pressure In Sports & Academics In Our Children

    I spoke to over 90 mental health

    experts in the Midwest during three days last week.  Many reports that parents put significant
    pressure on their kids when it comes to academics.  College scholarships depend on academic
    excellence.  Jobs depend on academic
    success.

    Likewise, parents put significant

    pressure on their kids when it comes to academics.  College scholarships depend on academic
    excellence.  Jobs depend on academic
    success.  Many parents put significant
    pressure on their kids when it comes to sports.  When I talk to parents, some kids
    report experiencing pressure even when pressure is not imposed by the parents. The bottom line is that kids are experiencing pressure.  What are the 4 ways parents can reduce
    pressure or help youth experience less pressure?

    8 min
  • Parenting Teenagers with FOMO: Fear of Missing Out
    This week's Parenting Podcast is titled "Parenting Teenagers With FOMO -- Fear of Missing Out." There are a range of stressors that tweens and teenagers are dealing with nowadays. FOMO is one of those stressors, particularly as it relates to teenagers and their cell phones. I identify five solutions to approaching FOMO with your teens.
    7 min
  • Coping With Grief
    Family dinners remains one of the best predictors of healthy families.  Discussing grief at dinner time includes accepting feelings and self care.  Other practical things to do in honoring the legacy of the loved one include: 1.  Slideshow 2.  Small remembrances 3.  Humor 4.  Identifying positive attributes 5.  Gratitude
    6 min
  • Five Action Steps To Help You Teach Your Child To Never Quit
    Today's podcast is Five Action Steps to Help You Teach Your Child To Never Quit!  
    In My practice, I am seeing quitting happening quite frequently on the sports field or court.  It is not uncommon for kids to quit family games, from monopoly to the wiffle ball game, or the chess game with Grandpa.  Parents have to put forth some effort to reverse this trend. Here are some action steps parents can take to address this problem in their own homes.
    7 min

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What We Were Never Taught is a podcast about the emotional and relationship skills that shape the most important connections in our lives.