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143: The Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul
We don’t just think with our brains. What?! How can that possibly be true? I struggled to understand it myself for quite a while, until I read the fabulous English philosopher Andy Clark’s description of what happens when someone writes, which essentially involves ideas flowing down the arm and hand, through the pen and ink,…
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142: Division of Responsibility with Ellyn Satter
Do you worry that your child isn’t eating enough…or is eating too much? Do you wish they would eat a more balanced diet…but don’t want to be the Vegetable Police? Do you find yourself in constant negotiations over your child’s favorite snacks? You’re not alone! Join me for a conversation with Ellyn Satter MS, MSSW,…
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SYPM 014: The power of healing in community
When you’re learning a new skill, information is critical. Without that, it’s very difficult to make any kind of meaningful change. But I see a parallel between learning new skills and respectful parenting: I like to say that love between parent and child is necessary but not sufficient – and that respect is the…
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141: The Body Keeps The Score with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
How does trauma affect us? Yes, we feel it in our brains – we get scared, frustrated, and angry – often for reasons we don’t fully understand. But even if our brains have managed to cover up the trauma; to paper a veneer over it so everything seems fine, that doesn’t mean everything…
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SYPM 013: Triggered all the time to emotional safety
When we’re having a hard time interacting with our family members, it’s pretty common for our first reaction to be: “I need this person (or these people!) to change their behavior” – especially when this person (or these people!) are children. After all, we’ve been around for longer and we know what we’re doing and…
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140: Mythbusting about fat and BMI with Dr. Lindo Bacon
This episode kicks off a series on the intersection of parenting and food. We begin today with a conversation with Dr. Lindo Bacon, where we bust a LOT of myths about the obesity epidemic that is said to be plaguing people in the United States and other countries that follow a similar diet. The messaging…
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139: How to keep your child safe from guns (even if you don’t own one)
Many of us haven’t been in each other’s homes for a while now, but pretty soon we’ll be getting together inside again. And our children will be heading inside, in their friends’ houses. People store guns inside. Are you certain that nobody owns a gun in any of the places your child plays? If…
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138: Most of what you know about attachment is probably wrong
New parents often worry about attachment to their baby – will I be able to build it? My baby cries a lot – does that mean that we aren’t attached? If I put my baby in daycare, will they get attached to the daycare staff rather than to me? Based on the ideas about attachment…
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137: Psychological Flexibility through ACT with Dr. Diana Hill
“Psychological Flexibility” sounds amazing. Shouldn’t we all want that? After all, psychological flexibility has been significantly positively associated with wellness during the COVID-19 pandemic, and negatively associated with anxiety, depression, and COVID-29-related distress and worry. (But what is it, anyway?!) Psychological Flexibility is about being fully in touch with the present moment and, based on…
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136: Mother’s Day Momifesto
We’ve been in a liminal space for the last 15 months or so, since COVID shutdowns. (The word ‘liminal’ comes from the Latin root limen, meaning threshold). It’s a place where a certain part of our lives has come to an end but the next thing hasn’t yet begun, so we’re in a transitional state.…
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135: 5 reasons respectful parenting is so hard
This episode grew out of a post that long-time friend of the podcast, Dr. Laura Froyen, published in a respectful parenting group that we both work in as admins. In the post she asked people to share how they felt before and after they discovered respectful parenting, and then she created a word cloud of…
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SYPM 012: From fear-filled conflict to parenting as a team
“You’re doing it wrong! You’re not asking for consent before changing the diaper!” In this Sharing Your Parenting Mojo episode we meet parent Nicole, who has core values related to being empathic, constantly learning, and upholding justice in the world. These awesome values came together in a difficult way when Nicole became a parent:…
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