376: The Problems with Punishment
Child behavior expert Bryan Post explains why punishment shuts down learning, and offers a simple strategies for regulating hard moments.
Child behavior expert Bryan Post explains why punishment shuts down learning, and offers a simple strategies for regulating hard moments.
A grilled cheese catastrophe becomes a lesson in co-regulation: three simple, everyday ways to help your kid’s nervous system feel safe.
Your child’s nervous system isn’t a machine to calm down. Holly Bridges explains why teaching the body to feel safe changes everything.
Your child’s avoidance isn’t laziness, it’s the Wall of Awful. Brendan Mahan shares how to help them, and you, get past it.
Your child’s calm at school and falling apart at home isn’t a parenting problem, it’s capacity. Dr. Emily King explains why.
Puberty sneaks up fast. Dr. Kim Pinckney on the early signs, honest language, and helping neurodivergent kids find real friendship.
My son says heavy metal calms him down. We unpack how music regulates his ADHD and autistic brain, and ours too.
PDA isn’t defiance, it’s a nervous system on alert. Stacey Curnow shares how to turn power struggles into real partnership with your child.
The pause on Blue’s Clues was research-backed and it is one of the most powerful tools you have as a parent of a neurodivergent child. Here is how to use it.