12: What Can Kids Learn from a Tense Election?
How can parents help children cultivate the ability to have tough conversations? How do we teach tolerance? Lisa explains the building blocks of civil discourse and the emotional and developmental ski...
27 Loka 202028min
11: Where's the Line Between Being Healthy and Having an Eating Disorder?
Eating concerns are an issue in many families, especially during the Coronavirus pandemic. What should a parent look out for? When is it time to be concerned? And what happens in the mind of someone w...
20 Loka 202029min
10: How Do I Parent When I Feel Like I’m Drowning?
Parents are faced with new pressures under Covid-19, and many of us are barely holding it together. When does having personal struggles translate into bad parenting? While it's important to be honest ...
13 Loka 202033min
9: What to Do When Kids Don’t Listen: Advice for Threenagers to Teenagers
What really works when kids just won’t listen? Dr. Lisa explains there are two different mental states that parents should toggle between — warm parent and robot parent. She explains how cultivating a...
6 Loka 202033min
8: Apathetic, Cranky, Frustrated: Dealing with Kids' Distress About School
What should parents do when their kids are fed up and unhappy about school? Psychologists are witnessing the rise of emotional distress in children as they try to manage their disrupted academic year....
29 Syys 202032min
7: When Is Anxiety a Disorder? When Does Sadness Become Depression?
Anxiety often serves as a normal and useful warning system - an emotional alarm that rings when something isn't right. Lisa discusses the difference between healthy and unhealthy anxiety, and explains...
22 Syys 202032min
6: Will the Pandemic Disrupt My Kid’s Social Development?
When should parents hit the panic button over their child’s social development? A mom writes in about her shy, introverted teen, wondering if her daughter has enough contact with friends. What key mil...
15 Syys 202030min
5: Toolbox for Terrible Times: Managing Helplessness and Hopelessness
How do we get through the pandemic without losing our minds? Lisa offers parents four distinct tools to help ourselves and our children through these challenging times. The specific tools are "feeling...
8 Syys 202028min
