Parenting The Adlerian Way – Details, episodes & analysis

Stacey Stewart, the CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), talks with me about the impact that our parenting style has on saving lives by the way we approach prevention of drinking and driving. MADD has created a free, evidence-based, resource to help parents apply the best approach – download it here: 

Power of Parents Handbook

https://online.flippingbook.com/view/320259548/

MADD’s Social Media:

https://www.instagram.com/maddnational/MADD 

https://www.tiktok.com/@maddnational 

https://x.com/MADDNational 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/mothers-against-drunk-driving 

You can find Stacey on social media here:

https://www.instagram.com/staceydstewart/ 

X: @StaceyDStew

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-d-stewart-mba-9b5472

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Q1. How to respond to the dramatic emotional displays of my son?

Q2. Strategies to give my son more responsibilities when he is not following through?

Q3. As a mom, how do I stay out of the power struggles between dad and son when it impacts me?

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Q1. How do I get my 12 yr old son who has become moody, to open up and talk to me about what is wrong?

Q2. My kids are starting to play on the street with social distancing rules, but I don’t trust them to actually keep their distance. What do I do?

Q3. My 8 year old son is exhibiting anxiety in going out in public now that more things are opening up. How do I help him?

Q4. The whole family has become snappy and I am yelling more. Everything is a battle. How do I get my family back on track?

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Q1. 7yr old boy goes from sweet to angry and explosive with pushover mom

Q2. Husband says our democratic approaches don’t work for teen who needs stricter rules re: eating

Q3. 11 yr boy constantly blurts and talks over or repeats what he sees in the movie we are watching

Q4. 4 year old lying by telling stories that are not true and sneaking candy to school.

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Q2.  4 year old has clothing sensitivities 

Q3. 18 yr old daughter uses my toiletries and refuses to wash her clothes.

Q4. 13yr son hates school and refuses to talk about with me. 

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In this episode, I speak with the most qualified person there is to answer parents tech questions:  Amber Mac, a mom and the nation’s leading tech expert.  We’ll talk about screen time, appropriate ages for apps, tracking and blocking apps, useful apps parents should know about, mental health impact from being online and more. 

You can follow Amber on social media at @ambermac everywhere. 

Check out her book Outsmarting Your Kids Online here

Subscribe to the Amber Mac Weekly newsletter:  www.ambermac.com/newsletter 

Check out #TheFeed podcast wherever you listen

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Register for my upcoming webinar “Parenting Strategies for Tweens or Teens” here

Q1. 15 yr old girl, A student, caught smoking e-cigs in the school bathroom

Q2. 3.5 yr old boy, talkative at home, but won’t say hello / good-bye to others

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Got stressed kids?  Check out my convo with child and adolescent psychotherapist Katie Hurley. She has 20+ years working with kids and used that experience to compiled her latest book called “The Stress Buster Workbook For Kids” to pull together all the tools, skills and techniques she has gathered for her clients over the years into one great book.  While it is written for children 4-11 it’s clearly helpful to EVERYONE of all ages, including parents, teachers, clinicians and more.  Take a listen! 

Here is Katie’s website: 

https://practicalkatie.com/about-me/

Her book is here: 

https://practicalkatie.com/the-stress-buster-workbook-for-kids/

You can follow her on social media too: 

IG @katiehurley

FB https://www.facebook.com/katiehurleylcsw

Twitter: https://twitter.com/katiefhurley

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Terry Kottman is the creator of Adlerian Play Therapy.  In this episode we discuss what play therapy is, why Adlerian play therapy is different from other modalities, what types of children benefit from our work, what a session might look like, how gaming is integral to the process and so much more. 

You can learn more about Terry here: 

www.adlerianplaytherapy.com

http://leapt.arlo.co/w/

Here books are here: 

Partners in Play

Co-operative games: 

Pandemic

Forbidden Desert 

Gnomes at night

Dinosaur Escape

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Q1. 4yr girl leaves tables and sneaks food from fridge – do I lock it?

Q2. 4.5yr boy can’t settle and wait in line at JK

Q3. 11yr son refused to leave car.  We sat for an hour.  Did he win the power struggle?

Q4. 15yr son is getting angry with my rule that his phone has to be in my room at night.

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