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379: Helping Kids Understand Their Diagnosis

379: Helping Kids Understand Their Diagnosis

Without an explanation, kids decide they’re the problem. Two neuropsychologists share how to explain a diagnosis using your child’s words, honest challenges, and real strengths.

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376: The Problems with Punishment

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.

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375: Co-Regulation Ideas for Real Life

375: Co-Regulation Ideas for Real Life

A grilled cheese catastrophe becomes a lesson in co-regulation: three simple, everyday ways to help your kid’s nervous system feel safe.

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374: Teaching the Body to Feel Safe

374: Teaching the Body to 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.

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373: Overcoming The Wall of Awful

373: Overcoming The Wall of Awful

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.

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372: The Neurodivergent Learner

372: The Neurodivergent Learner

Your child’s calm at school and falling apart at home isn’t a parenting problem, it’s capacity. Dr. Emily King explains why.

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371: How Honesty (Not Reassurance) Is What Gets Your Kid Through Middle School

371: How Honesty (Not Reassurance) Is What Gets Your Kid Through Middle School

Puberty sneaks up fast. Dr. Kim Pinckney on the early signs, honest language, and helping neurodivergent kids find real friendship.

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370: When Silence is Louder than Sound

370: When Silence is Louder than Sound

My son says heavy metal calms him down. We unpack how music regulates his ADHD and autistic brain, and ours too.

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364: PDA Through a Problem-Solving Lens: Moving from Power Struggles to Partnership

364: PDA Through a Problem-Solving Lens: Moving from Power Struggles to Partnership

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.

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363: Raising Problem-Solvers: Lessons from the Co-Creator of Blue’s Clues & Daniel Tiger

363: Raising Problem-Solvers: Lessons from the Co-Creator of Blue’s Clues & Daniel Tiger

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.

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