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Every Day Parenting Podcast
by Christi Bostwick, Ph.D.
Child psychologist, Christi Bostwick. Practical, and sometimes slightly irreverent, parenting.
Episodes
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S4E6: Eat! Please!
Brenna Thompson joins for this episode and brings her expertise as a nutritionist and a mom. Brenna teaches us the difference between picky eating and Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder or ARFID. Most parents will struggle with picky eating. We learned that some high sensory kids are…
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S4E5: After Back to School
Back to school is often an exciting time for kids because they get to see their friends, get new school supplies and sometimes clothes, meet new teachers, and get a fresh start. Then, there is after back to school. For some kids, the "honeymoon phase" of back to school can be very short lived and...
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S4E4: Navigating Parenting Through Domestic Violence
Learn along with us when Dr. Shannon Goeke-Watson joins Rich and Dr. Bostwick to discuss the difficulties of parenting through domestic violence. Dr. Goeke-Watson is a specialist whose practice focuses on families experiencing domestic and/or sexual abuse. She explains how families enter into her...
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S4E3: Medical or Behavioral?
How can kids be expected to behave or correct their behavior if bad behavior is a result of a medical condition? In this episode Dr. Bostwick discusses the top 7 medical problems that cause behavior problems in children and cause her to ask parents to see their pediatricians first.
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S4E2: Trichotillomania: Hair Pulling
Trichotillomania is a compulisve desire to pull out one's hair. Dr. Bostwick compassionately discusses what is often an embarrassing compulsion that often starts in young children with high sensory needs, when hormones shift in middle school, or during the stress of adolescence. It's one of the...
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S4E1: Fathers, Go Figure
It's hard being a dad, or father figure! Dr. Bostwick knows a little bit about being the figure of a father but has talked to thousands of father figures, dads, grandpas, mentors, uncles, aunts, and many others who take on the role of what we think of as a traditional fathers. So complex, but we...
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S3E13: Childhood Superstitions
The final episode of any season is always episode 13 celebrating all things quirky, spooky, or just strange. Episode 13 of season three is a lighthearted discussion about superstitions that we often just accept about being a kid. Did you avoid stepping on cracks? Does teaching or participating in...
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S3E12: Childhoods Affecting Childhoods
Past affects future. In this episode Dr. Bostwick and Rich discuss why it's important and the conscious effort it takes to keep good parenting practices and leave behind harmful or even traumatic parenting practices used by past generations.
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S3E11: I'm Scared!
Sometimes, the hardest part of parenting a child who is scared is managing our own fear as parents. In this episode Dr. Bostwick discusses childhood fears: when they are typical and when to get additional guidance.
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S3E10: Sleep! Please!
When kids don't sleep, entire households can be disrupted. In this episode, Dr. Bostwick discusses sleep hygiene, sleep and ADHD, and when to get help when your child won't sleep.
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S3E9: What? You Changed Your Mind?
Kids change their minds. It can be harder on parents to move on than kids! In this episode Dr. Bostwick talks about adjusting gracefully as parents when kids make big changes like career plans to every day changes such as what their favorite food is.
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S3E8: Habit Reversal
It is not always clear how to handle habits, such as nail biting and thumbsucking, as a parent. Dr. Bostwick applies research-based habit reversal techniques to both expected and unexpected parenting difficulties such as obsessive thoughts.
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S3E7: Rejection Sensitivity and ADHD
Rejection sensitivity is a relatively new label for an old concept. People pleasers, explosive emotions, and kids who often feel picked on and unloved are all signs of rejection sensitivity. Rejection sensitivity is often a little known part of an ADHD temperament.
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S3E6: The Talk Daughter
Dr. Bostwick's daughter, Allie, joins the show! She dishes about what it is like to have a child psychologist as a mom. The conversation takes an interesting turn toward raising gifted and talented kids.
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S3E5: Oh, Joy! Do I Smell Flowers?
A mostly reverent reminder to stop and smell the parenting roses. In other words, remember why we had them in the first place! Kids are awesome. Most of the time.
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S3E4: Happy Discipline
Dr. Bostwick revisits discipline with elementary school-aged children and their electronics as the focus. Discipline is teaching; enjoy how predictable children react to the basic principles.
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S3E3: Depression in Kids
In this episode, Dr. Bostwick talks about depression and how it looks different in kids depending on age and circumstances.
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S3E2: ADHD in Girls is Different
So many girls and women are tested and told they do not have attention problems only to be told years later they have had them all along. After I diagnose their kids, some moms will say, "is that why antidepressants don't work for me?" This episode explores surprising characteristics that often...
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S3E1: Managing Parental Anger
Wow, it makes parents mad when kids lie, cheat, and defy our authority! Dr. Bostwick and Rich discuss what makes most parents angry and how to cope.
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S2E13: I See Dead People
A little tongue-in-cheek, a little real? We talk about kids who are empathic or deep feelers. Empathic children feel everyone emotions. A highly sensitive empathic child brings joy and challenges every day.
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S2E12: Help! How to Tell When Kids Need a Therapist
Skeptical about whether therapy works for kids? You should be! Chosing a therapist is an active decision for parents. Dr. Bostwick talks about the benifits of therapy and when to seek outside help.
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S2E11: The Questions Show
Questions from our 10s of listeners! We touch on when to get help, some social media questions, and odds and ends of parenting every day.
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S2E10: Santa, Green Hair, and Beta Fish
Buying in or not to mythical childhood people is a parenting choice. It can be very fun, but is NOT necessary for a successful childhood. We also discuss other choices, like letting kids dye their hair, parents can make that sometimes just make life nice for kids.
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S2E9: Son of a Talk Doctor!
Episode 9 was a risk. Dr. Bostwick's son, Nash, joins us to tell all. What was it like to be raised by a child psychologist. Don't those kids have more problems than most? Tune in to find out!
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S2E8: Parenting Social Media, Today
Social media changes fast. The trend today is truly gone tomorrow. Social media platforms have to be more and more creative and, sometimes provocative, to get your child's attention. Some are harmless and some can be harmful. This episode is a Fall 2022 view of social media today.
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S2E7: EAT!
Kids should just want to eat, right? Any parent that thinks kids will just eat when they are hungry have never met a picky eater. Dr. Bostwick gives ideas and harsh realities of how to get kids to eat from infancy to the teen years.
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S2E6: Suicide: It's Personal
Dr. Bostwick shares her family's story about suicide. Suicide prevention and education is deeply personal and a passion that fuels her work with depressed kids and teens. It may be difficult to hear, but listening may also make a difference you never expected.
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S2E5: Parenting Self Harm
No parent wants their child to hurt so much that they want to hurt themselves. For many parents, self-injurious behavior is difficult to understand. For most, it scares them and leaves them feeling helpless. Dr. Bostwick talks about what she hears from kids who are cutting and offers direction in...
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S2E4: Parenting After Divorce
Parenting after divorce is just as difficult as during a divorce. More help Dr. Bostwick has gathered from kids over the years about what makes going back and forth from their house with mom and their house with dad easier.
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S2E3: Parenting During Divorce
Parenting every day is hard. Parenting every day before, during, and after divorce is even harder. In this episode Dr. Bostwick offers considerations about the benefits for kids when parents set aside hard feelings toward their other parent and work toward a new and healthy normal.
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S2E2 Positive Potty Training
Changing diapers is one of our first tasks as caregivers. Getting children out of diapers becomes a major goal almost immediately. Diapers are expensive and the independence of kids going to the bathroom by themselves is a great developmental milestone. This episode gives you support to get…
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S2E1: Worrying Well
We are born with anxiety. Learning to manage anxiety is a life lesson helpful to teach kids. Episode 1 of our second season supports parents who are teaching anxiety management to their children.
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S1E12: Homework?Help!
The homework episode gives ideas about how to get through homework battles with your kids. How to motivate your kids instead of dictate rules about homework.
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S1E11: Parenting Siblings
How do you "get" your kids to get along? Sometimes you don't, can't, or maybe even shouldn't. A new way to think about parenting siblings. Playing together is a privilege.
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S1E10: Parenting and the Secret Life of Teenagers
What I hear teenagers need from their parents and how I applied their secrets at home with my own teenagers. Now you can, too!
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S1E9: Smart Kids Hide Dyslexia
The smarter the kid, the more they hide dyslexia. How to suspect, get dyslexia diagnosed, and what to ask for in the classroom.
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S1E8: The NEW Back to School
COVID has changed back to school. Everything a parent needs to know about the transition back to school post"ish" Covid.
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S1E7: Good Grief Part 2
Second part of support for parenting through grief and loss for kids and young adults.
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S1E6: Good Grief Part 1
Support for parenting through grief and loss; young children through young adults.
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S1E5: What Did COVID Do to My Kid?
Candid, no politics, no judgement discussion about the short and longterm effects of the COVID experience for kids and teens.
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S1E4: But, Doesn't Everyone Have ADHD?
ADHD is often very misunderstood. A new look at an old temperament. Could be laziness, anxiety, OCD, learning problems, or it could be attention problems.
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S1E3: The Hidden Reason for Some Kid's Anxiety and Misbehavior.
There is a hidden reason young children have anxiety and irritability. Most veteran parents won't be able to guess what it is.
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S1E2: Kids Behaving Badly or The Framework
Kids aren't broken! It sounds too easy, but it works.
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S1E1: Why Should I Listen to this Parenting Podcast?
Dang it parenting is hard every day. Christi Bostwick, Ph.D., raised two amazing humans and has been helping families through childhood and adolescence for over 25 years. Practical and irreverent at times. Joined by fellow parent and broadcasting veteran, Rich Larson. Two parents just trying to...
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Child psychologist, Christi Bostwick. Practical, and sometimes slightly irreverent, parenting.
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