The benefits of attachment parenting cannot be overstated. Securely attached kids are more confident, connected and more prepared to enter the world. They also tend to experience fewer health problems. But why?  Here to share more about the science behind attachment parenting and how we can raise confident connected children is Eli Harwood. Eli is a licensed therapist who lives in Colorado with her husband and three children. She's an expert on attachment theory and the author of Raising Securely Attached Kids, which will be available September 2024. She also loves playing dress up wit ..read more

Trying to navigate the world of learning disabilities with your children and just getting more and more confused? Trust me, I know. I’ve been there. Which is why I keep bringing in the experts to provide you ways to understand learning disabilities in the classroom.  Something I just learned was that a lot of the terms that educators have started to use aren’t even true medical diagnoses recognized by medical professionals. Crazy! Here to share more about learning disabilities is Katie Davis. She is a Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University and a clinical Neuropsychologist in New ..read more

Access to sexual education for our youth is unbelievably important both from a health standpoint and from an education standpoint. But so many schools these days have sex education as optional and many don’t even require the curriculum to be medically accurate.  That’s why I’m so excited to talk with Tara Jones all about how she’s helping to change the landscape of sexual education.  Tara is a black queer sex educator based in Philadelphia and New York. For the last five years that work has consisted of creating sex education, social media content aimed at young adults, writing for ..read more

It is not productive to think negatively of our children's teenage years. Instead we need to find ways to embrace this time period and support the changes they’re experiencing while giving them room to grow, learn, and fail with us.  But it seems like all the literature out there is designed to scare and dishearten parents as their children reach these later years. What should we be reading?  Thankfully, Ellen Galinsky decided it was time to share the positive side of parenting teenagers.  Ellen is President of Families and Work Institute, elected President of the Work and Famil ..read more

If there was a program out there that could help you plan your weekly meals, come up with fun activities for your kids, give you gift and party ideas and so much more… would you use it?  Fun fact, this does exist! It’s called AI and tools like Chat GPT and Gemini are an amazing way to take off some of the mental load and stress of making day to day decisions. Here to share more is Michelle Tangeman.  Before opening Michelle Tangeman Behavioral Health as a child and family therapist, Michelle served as a Clinical Manager for STAR of CA, where she oversaw a clinical team providing chil ..read more

If there was a program out there that could help you plan your weekly meals, come up with fun activities for your kids, give you gift and party ideas and so much more… would you use it?  Fun fact, this does exist! It’s called AI and tools like Chat GPT and Gemini are an amazing way to take off some of the mental load and stress of making day to day decisions. Here to share more is Michelle Tangeman.  Before opening Michelle Tangeman Behavioral Health as a child and family therapist, Michelle served as a Clinical Manager for STAR of CA, where she oversaw a clinical team providing chil ..read more

Media addiction among children is a huge problem. We know this and you know that I’ve been talking about it for a while. Thankfully there is a movement out there working to make changes at the policy level.  Enter MAMA - Mothers Against Media Addiction, founded by Julie Scelfo. Julie is a former New York Times journalist, Media Ecologist and founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction, otherwise known as MAMA, a grassroots movement of parents fighting back against media addiction to create a world where real life experiences remain at the heart of childhood.  She is also a mother of t ..read more

Some really important things are happening in the world of women’s health and reproductive rights. In case you weren’t aware or if you’ve heard of EMTALA and the case that is with the Supreme Court coming out of Idaho, I wanted to bring on an expert to explain what is happening and what it could mean for health care providers in the future.  Alexa is a deputy director at the ACLU reproductive freedom project located in New York City. For almost 20 years, Alexa has been litigating in states across the country, including at the US Supreme Court to protect and expand access to abortion and o ..read more

Your teenager is meant to make mistakes and push the envelope when it comes to boundaries and expectations. They’re learning who they are as individuals rather than as sons or daughters.  So how do we keep them safe while still letting them try and fail?  It all starts with the boundaries you’re setting with your young children today. If you’re having your very first talk about curfews and drinking with your child as you drop them off at a school party, you’re too late.  Dr. Jenny Rose joins me to share more about how we can get inside the teenage mind and how to start laying a ..read more

Your teenager is meant to make mistakes and push the envelope when it comes to boundaries and expectations. They’re learning who they are as individuals rather than as sons or daughters.  So how do we keep them safe while still letting them try and fail?  It all starts with the boundaries you’re setting with your young children today. If you’re having your very first talk about curfews and drinking with your child as you drop them off at a school party, you’re too late.  Dr. Jenny Rose joins me to share more about how we can get inside the teenage mind and how to start laying a ..read more