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What do you do when your kid has just a tiny, little difficulty?
What do you do when your kid has just a tiny, little difficulty?

Dr. Blevins discusses when a parent has a behavior or development concern for their child, but it doesn't quite feel like it's big enough to see a specialist. When you feel there probably isn't a diagnosis, what do you do? She's discussing her thoughts on how parents might approach these tough questions.

Alternative Treatments
Alternative Treatments

Today we are talking about alternative treatments for supporting your child's behavior. Alternative treatments might be things like essential oils, elimination diets, using the moon to decide when you will go out for fun activities versus hunkering down in anticipation of naughty behavior, and other types of old wives tales and Instagram / Pinterest wisdom that is not necessarily linked to evidence-based studies. Many providers, including physicians, psychologists, therapist, and others, get this question all the time. It's a very important question because it frames the way that you as a parent will approach treatment for your child and the energy and attributions you give to interventions along your child's journey.

Values-Based Scheduling
Values-Based Scheduling

It's hard to feel like you're moving toward your big goals and living your best life when there is always a load of laundry that needs folding or homework that needs to be completed. Today's video talks about framing your schedule in the context of your big values for your family, so that you don't get lost or overwhelmed by the mundane daily life stuff. When we focus on how the smallest of our actions contributes to teaching our children how to live out the values we most aspire to, it makes it a bit easier to do those tasks with joy, patience, and purpose. I provide a couple strategies to get you started with values-based scheduling. Let me know how it goes!

Why doesn't my child listen to me?
Why doesn't my child listen to me?

I'm sharing a parent question and answer video I made from my new Facebook group, Positive Parenting Q and A, today.

Today's video focuses on understanding why a child might be responsive and compliant with one parent and not with the other parent and how I address it in therapy. This is a very COMMON question!

I discuss three big reasons for this phenomenon. I also discuss how I approach healing the parent-child relationship to…

Treating Lice: Cultural Dimensions & What Teachers and Parents Can Do
Treating Lice: Cultural Dimensions & What Teachers and Parents Can Do

Today I'm chatting with Certified Lice Technician, Danni Hall. She is the owner of The Alaska Lice Clinic, LLC. We have a rich discussion about a common childhood problem that shows up from time to time. We discuss how schools might stop the spread of a lice outbreak, how parents can help prevent their child from getting lice, and how cultural factors have led to some school policy changes since I was a kid. I have to say that this conversation was so GOOD, and I hope that you all out there get as much out of as I did.

A psychologist mom uses mindfulness to teach emotion regulation to her autistic kid
A psychologist mom uses mindfulness to teach emotion regulation to her autistic kid

Today I'm chatting with Dr. Rubia Subhani. She is a psychologist practicing in Georgia and also a parent to an autistic child. Across her professional and personal journey she has developed a mindfulness practice to help her child manage anxiety and behavior flare ups.

Why are Anxiety and ADHD confused so often?
Why are Anxiety and ADHD confused so often?

Dr. Blevins discusses why ADHD or ADD are commonly confused with anxiety. She talks about how this confusion can happen in the first place and

Using a Calm Down Toolkit
Using a Calm Down Toolkit

To start off the new year we're chatting with Trina Deboree, an elementary school Media Specialist focused on standards-based reading materials and science/STEM/makerspace. She helps teachers and parents create engaging materials that help foster the love of learning in children.

How to use a calendar to reduce stress and get things done
How to use a calendar to reduce stress and get things done

Dr. Blevins talks about how she uses a planner to decrease busy-ness stress. Many of us create never ending to-do lists. Just looking at them can increase our stress. Today Dr. Blevins discusses a special planner, the bullet journal, and how she uses it to train herself to better understand how long it takes her to do common tasks and how to let go of a perfectionistic mindset. What is a bullet journal? With time, the bullet journal creates a mindfulness practice around your day and how

Giftedness and Special Needs
Giftedness and Special Needs

I'm chatting today with a psychologist who specializes in giftedness, Andrea Lein. She and I really nerded out... for a while. We talk about what giftedness is, what twice exceptional is (when a gifted personal has a learning or emotional disability in school), and how parents can approach supporting twice exceptional children. Enjoy!! (I know we did!)

 

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