My Boy Seems Anxious, Sensitive, Easily Overwhelmed… Is This Normal?
Janet responds to three parents who are worried that their kids seem overly anxious and sensitive in social situations. Each parent has tried to be patient and trusting, but they…
Rejection, Exclusion, Teasing — What to do When Friends Aren’t Kind
We all want our kids to enjoy thriving friendships, to feel appreciated by supportive peers. But that’s not always case, and it can be heartbreaking to see the hurt, disappointment,…
Healthy Body Image, Eating Disorders: What Parents Need to Know (with Grace Lautman, CN, LMHC)
Janet is joined by Grace Batman, a therapist and nutritionist who focuses on eating disorders, the conditions that can create and aggravate them, and how eating — or not eating…
How to Stop the Screaming
There’s nothing unusual about a child screaming, but sometimes it can become a go-to response to any situation. Janet responds to a parent who says her 3-year-old has become “stuck…
Discipline That Works – Your Best Responses to Your Kids’ Behaviors
Respectful, effective discipline can be challenging for us to learn, and experience is our best teacher! That said, Janet presents a number of encouraging success stories of parents who had…
3 Ways to Lift Your Parenting Spirits (with Loryn Brantz)
Loryn Brantz is an Emmy-winning children’s book author, illustrator, and mother of two who used to make puppets at Sesame Street. Loryn was on a prior episode of Unruffled with…
How to Handle Our Kids’ Obsessive Jealousy
Bossiness. Toy taking. Unkind words. Hitting. Such behaviors are especially frequent among siblings and may also occur between peers, and we find such behavior frustrating and disturbing. How to we…
Struggling with a Strong-Willed Toddler’s Tantrums
Janet meets with the single mother this week who is worried that the older parent is handling her daughter inappropriately in terms of her behavior. She explains how her toddler…
Discipline Isn’t Working – 3 Common Reasons and What To Do Instead
Effective discipline can be confusing! . It may seem that we are trying so hard to be caring, empathetic, and patient with our children and yet, the challenging behaviors are…
I’m Bad, I’m Stupid—Kids Being Harsh on Themselves
I am crazy, evil, silly, I am ill in everything. I despise myself.” Most of us however find it disturbing indeed to hear our children talk in such unkind terms…
