Parenting Doctors Podcast: What We Were Never Taught

Four Recommendations For Maintaining Poise On The Balance Beam Of Family Life: Part 2

Part 1 emphasized the importance of family dinners.  Our second recommendation emphasizes the importance of daily moments of connectedness.  2 moments of warmth per day!  

Four Recommendations For Maintaining Poise On The Balance Beam Of Family Life: Part 1

This week's parenting podcast starts off my four recommendations for maintaining poise on the balance beam of family life.  What are those things that families can do to stay balanced?  Part 1 --- Family dinners!  

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.  

What Are The Stressors For Young People Nowadays? Five Pieces of Advice Every Family Should Apply

Youth deal with many stressors nowadays.  Social media pressures and over scheduling in academics, sports, and activities are just some of them.  The following podcast consists Five Pieces of Advice that Every Family Should Apply.  

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.  

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.

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.  

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.  

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?

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.