It Takes A Village
Nine to Noon's Kathryn Ryan interviews parenting experts to help you navigate the trends, trials & tough calls of modern family life.
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Primary teacher and co-founder of a mental health venture, Alice Peel, says it's ok for children to feel low from time to time. She wants kids to understand the feeling is normal , and that there are tools to deal with those moments. Her new book lays out the science of the brain and replaces parts with animals - making brain functions easier to understand and remember for children. Topics include how to get out of a trap, how to be brave and how to be resilient when you don't want to be. Her book is called How to be a (fantastic sensational) good enough kid.
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Getting your kids through sports trials
Getting your kids through sports trials
How can parents get their children through the anxiety, the disappointment or what comes after a successful sports trial?
Tools to support teen mental health
Tools to support teen mental health
Making sense of behaviour, building meaningful routines and de-escalating high conflict moments are all key tools parents can use when wanting to support their teens' mental health.
Psychologist Andrea Temkin-Yu who has written a guide for parents wanting to work on their relationship with their teen.
She is a specialist in parent-focused intervention to help young people with their mental health.
An assistant professor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medicine - her book is Supporting Your Teen's Mental Health published by Oxford University Press.
What's up with our boys? Big Buddy's co-CEO shares his thoughts
What's up with our boys? Big Buddy's co-CEO shares his thoughts
Steve Sobota is the co-CEO of an organisation called Big Buddy, and has been matching boys without a dad in their life with positive male role models for nearly 25 years.
We know that boys' achievement at school has been lagging behind girls, and that boys are more at risk of behavioural issues and mental health issues.
So what can be done to help support boys as they grow to adulthood?
Steve has some thoughts based on his near two-decades of work with the organisation.
After school activities - how much is too much?
After school activities - how much is too much?
Term one of the school year is in full swing and with it the after school activities. But how much is too much? And how can parents judge that? Maggie Dent is known as the 'Queen of Commonsense Parenting' and is a former high school teacher, mother of four sons and the host of the ABC podcast Parental as Anything. Maggie says if the activity is being driven by the parent, the benefits disappear
My child has a lisp: should I be worried?
My child has a lisp: should I be worried?
Wellington speech and language therapist Christian Wright talks about children and lisps. What is a lisp, and when should a parent become concerned?
How early attachment impacts adult relationships
How early attachment impacts adult relationships
Neuroscience educator and parenting coach Nathan Wallis talks about how early attachment can impact adult relationships. He says the first 1000 days, plays a critical role in defining later outcomes for our children and for their future. Nathan features in a new Australian documentary Seen which explores the importance of personal healing for parents on parenting and its impact on child brain development.
Paediatrician Leila Masson on children's health from A to Z
Paediatrician Leila Masson on children's health from A to Z
What's the best way to keep children healthy - and how can you help them when things go wrong?
Paediatrician Dr Leila Masson has spent over 25 years working with kids considering these very issues - she specialises in nutritional and environmental medicine.
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