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Kids Like Ours

Bridgette McCullough and Molly Zwelling

Kids & Family

Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 7

Kids Like Ours is a podcast for parents raising children who feel deeply, struggle outwardly, and don’t fit the “typical” mold. Hosted by Bridgette McCullough and Molly Zwelling, this show dives into the real, messy, and often isolating experience of parenting kids with ADHD, ODD, and other invisible differences. Each episode blends honest storytelling, lived experience, and vulnerable conversations about what it’s like to raise kids like ours.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - parenting
08/08/2026
#80

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Rethinking Our Kids Behavior (with Kelsie Olds)

Episode 7

Monday, July 27, 2026 • Duration 52:22

What if the goal isn't to stop your kid's challenging behaviors, but to better understand them? In this episode, Kelsie Olds, an occupational therapist, writer behind The Occuplaytional Therapist, and author of Your Child's Point of View, joins the podcast to explain why curiosity works better than punishment, why "teach them a lesson" often means something harsher than we admit, and how to give ourselves the same grace we're trying to give our kids. It's honest, practical, and occasionally a gut-check.

Connect with Kelsie

The Occuplaytional Therapist

Featuring Kelsie's writing on parenting, behavior, and occupational therapy.

Kelsie on Facebook

Long-form, story-driven posts on parenting and behavior.

Kelsie's Book

Your Child's Point of View: Understanding the Reasons Kids Do Unreasonable Things

A one-page-at-a-time book reframing common parenting struggles from the child's perspective, with practical solutions and a bonus section on the parent's own inner child.

Kelsie's parenting season song pick:

Chris Patrick - Alley Oop

Additional resources mentioned:

The Explosive Child by Ross Greene

Referenced for its philosophy that kids do well if they can, and that challenging behavior often means a child is missing a skill needed to meet a demand.

The Good Inside by Dr. Beck Kennedy

Referenced for her point about the mental health cost to a child who is consistently treated as "the bad kid."

Terms referenced:

Gestalt language learner

A language-development pattern where a child learns and communicates in whole memorized scripts, phrases, or songs before breaking them down into their own original speech.

Proprioception

The sensory system responsible for body awareness and regulation; often a factor in why kids seek out physical actions like hitting, kicking, or throwing.

Restorative justice vs. retributive justice

Restorative justice focuses on repairing harm and community; retributive justice focuses on punishment for its own sake.

We are not experts — just parents sharing what we're learning in real time. If any of these terms are new to you, you're not alone. We're learning too.

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Delighting in Our Kids (and Letting Go of the Shoulds)

Episode 6

Thursday, July 2, 2026 • Duration 53:06

How much of parenting is made harder by all the expectations we carry? In this episode, Bridgette and Molly explore the “shoulds” they’ve let go of while raising neurodivergent kids. They also discuss the idea of delighting in our children: getting curious about the things they love, appreciating what makes them unique, and intentionally balancing out a world that often focuses on their struggles. It's a feel good conversation about letting go, celebrating the good, and finding more joy alongside the challenges of raising kids like ours.

Resources Mentioned

Parenting a Spicy One by Mary Van Geffen

A compassionate guide to raising deep-feeling, strong-willed kids with practical strategies for staying calm, setting boundaries, and building a connected relationship.

Terms Mentioned

Delighting
Intentionally noticing, enjoying, and expressing genuine pleasure in who your child is—not just what they accomplish or how they behave. Delighting helps strengthen connection, especially during challenging seasons of parenting.

Body Doubling
A strategy where someone works alongside another person while they complete a task. The other person doesn't need to help—they simply provide a calming, motivating presence that can make it easier to get started and stay focused.

The "Shoulds"
The expectations we place on ourselves, our children, or our families about how parenting is supposed to look. Letting go of these expectations can reduce stress and make room for more joy and connection.

Turning the Mirror on Ourselves (with Clay Gill)

Episode 5

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 • Duration 52:12

Bridgette and Molly are joined by Clay Gill, founder of Find Your Power, a coaching practice that helps neurodivergent adults better understand how they're wired and build lives that work with their strengths. Together they talk about Clay's journey to being diagnosed with ADHD and autism as an adult, the unexpected ways learning about neurodivergence can become personal for parents, and the pressure many families feel to figure everything out as quickly as possible. Plus, Molly and Bridgette complete Clay's Power Assessment and get coached live on the podcast.

Connect with Clay

Find Your Power

Introduces the POWER Framework and assessment designed to help neurodivergent adults identify where their energy is being drained and build more sustainable ways of working and living.

Clay Gill on LinkedIn⁠

Follow Clays work and insights on neurodivergence, burnout, executive functioning, and building sustainable ways of working that reduce self-friction and overwhelm.

Clay's parenting season song pick:

Raw Fear - Twenty One Pilots

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Our Worst Moments (and What We're Trying Now)

Episode 4

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 • Duration 44:37

It’s not easy to admit your worst parenting moments. But pretending they don’t happen is what can make people feel so isolated. In this episode, Bridgette and Molly open up about the moments they’re least proud of. The times they’ve become completely dysregulated themselves, reacted in ways they’d love to take back, and what they’re learning as they move forward.

Resources Mentioned

Raising Lions by Joe Newman

Offers practical strategies for raising strong-willed, challenging children by focusing on compassionate discipline, clear boundaries, and building parental authority.

Terms Mentioned

Co-regulation

The process of helping a child regulate their emotions through a calm, supportive connection with another person. Rather than expecting children to manage overwhelming emotions alone, co-regulation involves adults modeling and supporting emotional regulation until those skills develop.

Repair

The act of reconnecting after conflict, mistakes, or emotional outbursts. Repair may include acknowledging what happened, apologizing, validating feelings, and rebuilding trust.

Emotion Chart

Visual tool that helps children identify and communicate their emotions. These can support emotional awareness and regulation by giving children language for what they're experiencing.

We are not experts — just parents sharing what we're learning in real time. If any of these terms are new to you, you're not alone. We're learning too.

Working While Raising Kids Like Ours (with Michelle Yu)

Thursday, May 14, 2026 • Duration 39:53

Bridgette and Molly welcome their first guest, Michelle Yu, founder of Josie, a company helping organizations better support working parents and caregivers through coaching, community, and resources designed for the realities families face. Together they talk about what parents are carrying behind the scenes, why so many caregivers feel stretched to their limits, and how workplaces can create cultures where people can actually thrive. They also explore the added layers that come with parenting neurodivergent kids, the power of finding people who get it, and why support often matters more than solutions.

Connect with Michelle

Josie

Coaching, content, and community designed to help working parents and caregivers navigate transitions and feel supported both at home and at work.

Michelle Yu on LinkedIn

Follow Michelle’s work and insights on workplace culture, caregiving, and supporting working parents.

Michelle’s parenting season song pick:

⁠The Strokes - The End Has No End⁠

Additional Resources Mentioned

Spring Health

A workplace mental health platform that connects employees and families with therapy, coaching, care navigation, and personalized mental health support through employer-sponsored benefits.

Our School Experience (So Far)

Season 1 · Episode 2

Sunday, April 19, 2026 • Duration 46:53

In this episode, Bridgette and Molly open up about their school journeys — from early concerns to IEPs, starting over at new schools, trialing medication, and everything in between. They share the emotional reality of advocating for kids who are often misunderstood and what it’s taken to find the right support.

Resources Mentioned

⁠The Explosive Child⁠ by: Dr. Ross W. Greene

Introduces collaborative problem solving and the idea that “kids do well if they can.”

⁠Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors⁠ by: Robyn Gobbel

Discusses behavior through a nervous-system lens and asks what children need to feel safe, regulated, and supported.

Terms Mentioned

ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)

Introducing Kids Like Ours

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, April 16, 2026 • Duration 43:26

In their very first episode, Bridgette and Molly share who they are, how they met, and the moments they realized parenting wasn’t going to look the way they thought it would. From early observations to formal diagnoses, they open up about what it really means to raise kids like theirs.

Resource Mentioned

⁠In a February episode of the Full-Tilt Parenting podcast titled: A Conversation with Dr. Ross Greene About the Kids Who Aren’t Okay⁠, Ross Greene discussed the idea of “the unlucky kids.”

The idea resonated deeply with us: some children show pain quietly and receive comfort, while others show it through behaviors like yelling, hitting, running, or exploding and are often met with correction first.

Terms Mentioned

ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)

A neurodevelopmental condition that affects attention, impulsivity, emotional regulation, and executive functioning. ADHD impacts much more than focus and activity levels.

ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)

A pattern of intense irritability, emotional reactivity, and resistance to demands that goes beyond typical childhood behavior.

IEP (Individualized Education Program)

A school plan that provides individualized supports and accommodations for students with identified needs.

Sensory Processing Disorder

Difficulty processing sensory information, which can lead children to seek or avoid certain sensory experiences.

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