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The Parenting Horizons Podcast
by Julie Ross M.A.
A lively presentation of insights, tips and techniques for parents of children ages 12 months through 25 years. Hosted by best selling author and parenting expert Julie Ross M.A. (www.ParentingHorizons.com) and Dr. Elizabeth Cohen.
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Executive Functioning, Shame, and the Shift to Self-Advocacy
Your kid doesn’t need you to fix everything. They need support building the skills to handle challenges themselves. Join hosts Julie Ross and Dr. Elizabeth Cohen as they speak with Dr. Tara Williams, an educator, tenured professor, and expert in executive functioning and neurodiversity in higher...
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For Real: Helping Children Remain Their Authentic Selves in a Limiting World
The goal isn’t to make your kid “open up” — it’s to become the adult they actually want to talk to. Silence is hard. But rushing to fill it can make kids shut down even more.What helps: Listen for the story behind the behavior, not just the behavior. Validate the feeling without condoning the...
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Embracing the Full Spectrum of Death and Grief: A Conversation with Joanne DiMauro
What if grief wasn’t something to fear, but something to understand? In this conversation, we talk about why death, loss, and grief deserve more honesty, more curiosity, and more space in our lives — especially with our kids. Because when we make room for grief, we make room for love, memory, and...
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Is Your Child Stressed? Are You?
In this episode, we sit down with Teresa Stern, LCSW, somatic therapist, and founder of Mindful Therapy Brooklyn (https://www.mindfultherapybrooklyn.com) , to explore how children’s behavior is deeply connected to their nervous systems, sensory needs, and body awareness. Drawing from her training...
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A Parent's Crash Course In Understanding Adolescence
What does it really feel like to be a teenager today—and what do teens wish their parents understood? Our guest today is Sonia Suthar, Founder of Cloud9, a unique platform that combines life skills, personal growth, and community-building for teenagers In this eye-opening episode, we sit down…
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From Sacrifice to Stardust: A New Vision Of Motherhood
Dr. Gertrude Lyons (www.drgertrudelyons.com) invites us to rethink what it means to mother—starting with the radical idea that we all mother, and the most important person we nurture is ourselves. In this episode, she explores how cultural “mother codes” shape our beliefs: that there’s a right…
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Is There Sex After Having Kids?
"A crying baby is the best form of birth control..." Between sleep deprivation, stress, and the general chaos of having children, it’s no wonder many couples see a dip (or a cliff) when it comes to sex after kids. But just because this is common, it doesn’t mean you have to resign yourself to it....
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Parenting with Pride: Unlearn Bias and Embrace, Empower, and Love Your LGBTQ+ Teen
If a kid is LGBTQ+, it may take an enormous amount of courage to come out to their parents, even if their parents love them unconditionally. So what can parents do to assure their children that they are safe in talking to them about something so personal and profound. We talk today with Heather...
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There’s A Stranger In Your Kid’s Bedroom
Would you drop your kid off in a strange part of town and leave them to find their way home when it gets dark? When you sit at a restaurant and give your kids tech to keep them quiet, you’re doing the very same thing. Tom Arnold, (https://www.idigitaldetective.com), cyber security expert and…
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Children and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
“Hey Mom, did you lock the door? Are you sure? Are you SURE? How do I know you locked the door? Tell me the truth, did you lock the door? Can you check again? Can I check again?” What can a parent do when a child asks questions over and over like: “Are you sure you locked the door?” or “How do I...
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Why is my kid so disorganized? Why am I???
We all manage to be relatively productive during our daily life, putting one small task after another, one small step after another. But have you ever wondered how you actually learned how to do this? Executive functioning is the ability to organize tasks in such a way as to accomplish goals, but...
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Ain't No Cure for the Summertime Blues
Summer’s coming up fast, so what’s it going to be for your kids? Summer job? Lazing around? Day camp? Sleep-away camp? TikTok and video games 24/7? Even if your options are limited, a plan is always a good idea. Julie and Elizabeth talk about how to include your child in making plans for the…
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Taming Table Tantrums
For many families, the dinner table has become a war zone. Because there are so many emotions tied up in how we feel about food and eating, these feelings can mold your child’s relationship with food in ways that we never even suspected. Counselor and parenting expert, Emilie Vogas M.Ed…
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Change Is Good. (You Go First!)
It’s no secret that children develop emotionally, intellectually and physically at different speeds. The part that often gets overlooked, however, is that we as parents are also continually growing and changing. All these transitions going on at the same time can lead to some occasional…
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Four Words To Battle Anxiety
In this episode, Elizabeth Cohen and Julie Ross help you determine what feelings disarm you as an individual parent and, in turn, make you less effective in teaching, protecting and supporting your child. They will also give you tools to handle your feelings so that you can be the best parent you...
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What Is Your Kid's "Potential?"
The world is full of people, especially on social media, telling your kids that they just aren’t good enough, that they should just “quit while they’re ahead.” But there are ways you can help your kids counter these negative thoughts and replace them a positive view of themselves and their...
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Todders Talking
We tend to take speech for granted but some parents become anxious when their infants and toddlers don’t hit certain milestones. Realistically, when are these concerns founded and what can parents do to avoid the misinformation and bad advice from the internet? In this episode we interview a...
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Enough With The Lectures! How to talk to your kids about drugs, alcohol and vaping so they’ll listen.
When it comes to drug and alcohol use, it’s very tempting as parents to put your head in the sand and say "Not my kid” but that strategy never works, even if your kid isn’t actively experimenting (yet.) Since the most important component of prevention is education, the first step for parents is…
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Not All Disabilities Are Visible: Parenting Neurodiverse Children
In this episode we talk with author Rebecca Vitsmun about her new book "Eliza Dee’s Universes." As an autistic mother with neurodivergent children, Vitsmun was inspired by her personal experiences to provide an accessible story that inspires creative imagination in readers of all ages and...
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Who Blinks First? Essential Negotiation Skills For Parents
Have you ever gotten into an argument with your three year old and wondered “How did it come to this? I’m bigger, stronger, smarter and yet this little tyke has me on the ropes!!!!” Have you tried to set a boundary with your teenager, only to have them“flip the script” and suddenly you’re on the...
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BATTLE STATIONS! Getting Your Toddler To Sleep
Even parents of grown children sometimes wake up in a cold sweat reliving the battles in getting their 4 year old to go to sleep. In this episode we tackle head on the thorny but solvable challenge of getting your young child to go to sleep. After listening to this podcast, you’ll be primed to…
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"Lions and Tigers and Bears, (and CBT) Oh My!" Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - What it is and how it can help anxiety and depression in your kids
In this episode we interview clinical psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Cohen clinical about the huge uptick in anxiety and depression in our kids since the pandemic and how CBT is providing a lifeline for many families. Therapists using CBT work with anxious and depressed children and teens to help…
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The Sleep Deprived Teen
“Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.” Sleep isn’t a luxury, and this is especially true among our tweens and teens. 77% of teens nationwide do not get the minimum number of hours of sleep they need each night (8 hours is the minimum.) And it’s no surprise that sleep…
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It’s Okay To Not Be Okay
It’s okay to not be okay: Self-care vs. that never ending, ever expanding TO DO list Being a parent is A LOT of work and often very stressful. But there’s stress and then there’s STRESS, and a parent’s relationship to that stress can occasionally dip into unhealthy territory. But if that happens,...
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The “School Of Hard Knocks”: Fostering Resilience In Your Kids
It’s a fact of life; at some point in their life, your kid is going to get knocked down by circumstances out of their control. But as uncomfortable as that truth may be, there are concrete steps you can take as a parent to foster resilience in your kid, the kind of grit that allows them to get…
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Liar Liar Pants On Fire: Why Do Kids Lie?
It’s going to happen sooner or later; you catch your kid in a lie. But what do you do? Is it a teachable moment or a warning sign? In this episode we talk with Colleen Doyle Bryant (https://colleendoylebryant.com), the author the book “Rooted in Decency: Finding Inner Peace In A World Gone...
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Is TikTok Eating My Child's Brain?
Technology is not a “one size fits all” proposition. Children’s developing brains process digital media differently at different stages. The challenge for parents is how to embrace their role as “gate keeper” for younger children and then how to navigate into the role of “support system” as they...
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The Squeamish Parent Part 2: Talking to Your Kids About Pornography
In even the most sex positive families, talking particularly about pornography can be tricky at best. In this episode we continue our conversation with Amy Lang (BirdsAndBeesAndKids.com), about how to talk to your children about this complicated subject. It’s important for parents to acknowledge...
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Are you a squeamish parent?
Birds and bees. We all know what that stands for but why are we being so squeamish? In this episode we talk about talking about sex. Our guest today is parenting educator Amy Lang (www.birdsandbeesandkids.com) who walks us through how parents can overcome their reluctance to talk openly with…
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The most powerful gift to give your kids: Encouraging self-awareness in yourself and your children
It may be hard to believe when you watch your one year old eat paste, but the truth is that each of these little beings comes into the world with so much competence. The ultimate challenge for parents is to trust them, to let them explore the world, to get out of their way and watch them unfold....
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Children of Narcissistic Parents
One of the more surprising things about being a parent is that we often wind up taking a hard look at our own parents. Most of the time we uncover the unremarkable truth that our parents were just ordinary, flawed people who loved us dearly and did their very best to raise us. But sometimes we...
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Mindfulness and Parenting - Can You Really Do Both?
The term “mindfulness” sometimes conjures visions of sitting in a lotus position and becoming one with the universe, to which most parents roll their eyes and think “Sure, my kid can’t find their homework, the dog threw up, the school bus is honking, I just burned breakfast, I’m late for work and...
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Let's Cut The Bullsh*t (NSFW!)
In this wide ranging (and NSFW!) interview we talk with Dr. J.J. Kelly (www.drjjkelly.com), known as the “Punk Therapist”, about raising resilient and emotionally intelligent children. Today’s social media saturated landscape pushes several myths that hurt our children. Toxic positivity…
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Help! My kid’s going out wearing a dress up to “there.”
Today we’re discussing how to deal with your child’s growing sexual agency, and how to discuss consent and bodily autonomy without breaking out in a cold sweat (most of the time.) Our guest is Dr. Laura McGuire (they/them, https://drlauramcguire.com/about.html) trauma-informed expert, activist…
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Root canal vs applying for college: Which would you choose?
The college application process is a multi-billion dollar industry that profits from fear, uncertainty and doubt. But there are ways to take back control of the process, or at the very least take the anxiety and stress out of it. Our guest today is Tracy Schaffzin, a guidance counselor at The...
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What Me Worry? Anxiety vs. Anxiety Disorders
Studies say that 1 in 3 kids between the ages of 13 and 18 will experience a diagnosable anxiety disorder. Moreover, diagnosed anxiety and depression in children 3 - 17 years old has risen significantly in the past 5 years. So what’s the difference between “normal” anxiety and an “anxiety...
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Way Past Due: Talking with your children about diversity, equity and inclusion
Some people pride themselves on being “color-blind” when it comes to race, but actually there’s no such thing. In fact, studies show that kids are already noticing race by the age of 3 months and are making race based decisions shortly after. Our brains are wired to see race, so although it can…
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The Last Taboo: Talking To Your Kids About Money
Money is an uncomfortable, emotionally charged topic for a lot of parents. In this episode, we discuss how to overcome this last taboo with Anthony Delauney, a financial planner and author of the new book, “Dash and Nikki and the Jellybean Game.” You’ll get practical advice on such sensitive…
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Talking to your kids about gun violence
As of 2020, guns are the leading cause of death among children in the United States. This horrific fact has placed American families in a no-win situation: how and when to talk about it with your kids. In this episode we discuss how and when to talk to your kids about the epidemic of gun…
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Divorce and Compassion: Do They Have To Be Mutually Exclusive?
Emotions can run high if a marriage ends in divorce, but when there are children involved, the stakes become even higher. In this episode we’ll be talking with Andy Heller, author of the new book “Take the High Road: Divorce with Compassion for Yourself and Your Family” Andy brings to the...
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Raising Resilient Children
In this episode we interview Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe (https://www.robynehd.ca), the author of “Calm Within The Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency.” Many parents wonder why some kids “get up” while other just “give up.” Is the ability to pick yourself and dust yourself off a matter of...
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$%@#!! - Why Blowing Up Backfires
Your kids are your greatest treasure AND they sometimes drive you to the brink. It’s perfectly normal for parents to feel all kinds of uncomfortable emotions about your kids (frustration, fear, anger) and it's often tempting to vent these feelings by blowing our lids. But while this may feel good...
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Are The Kids Still Alright?
Are The Kids Still Alright? We’re seeing increased anxiety and depression in kids these days in the wake of so many events that are simply out of our control. The long tail of the pandemic, climate change, the war in Ukraine, just to name a few, are causing children and parents alike to despair.…
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Food Do's And Dont's and The Dinner Table Wars: Children and Food - Part 2
Do’s and Dont’s Around Food In this episode, we continue our discussion with Amy Bernsten (www.ABodyOfBeing.com) about countering some of the forces that foster eating disorders among children. We offer concrete ways to de-escalate some of the more common battles around food and eating. Tuning in...
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The Dinner Table War Zone: Children and Food - Part 1
Food. At its most basic, we need it to live. But it can also be a source of pleasure and community. Unfortunately, our society benefits from propagating shame around food, eating and weight and this can result in parents passing on and projecting their own issues around food to their children. In...
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The "Pearls of Wisdom" Episode
In this episode, we start the new year by revisiting some of Julie’s core principles and techniques. Communication 101 Refresher: Respectful communication is the best conflict resolution tool. We’ll talk about real techniques you can implement to open up healthy dialogue with your kids (even when...
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Truth, Fiction and Lies
In this holiday themed episode we talk about the value in preserving the magic in some of our cherished myths and fantasies: Santa, the tooth fairy, the Easter bunny and more! But of course this opens up a deeper discussion: What’s the difference between something that’s a secret, something…
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The Holiday Episode - "Thanks for nothing, Norman Rockwell !!"
The holidays are upon us and with them comes a whole host of expectations, some realistic and some…not. Emotions (positive and negative) run high at the holidays but there are ways to manage expectations, handle the “greedy gimmies” and keep your values at the center of whatever holiday you...
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DON'T PANIC! Myths and Fears When Your Child Comes Out As LGBTQ+
DON'T PANIC! Myths and Fears When Your Child Comes Out As LGBTQ+ If your child comes out as LGBTQ+ many parents must confront head on a host of widespread but patently false myths about what it means when a young person identifies on the LGBTQ+ spectrum. In this episode, we’ll expose the myths…
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My kid just came out as LGBTQ+. What do I do?
My child just came out as LGBTQ+ to me. What does that mean and what do I do? Even in the most accepting and loving families, coming out is never easy for the child. If your child trusts you enough to come out, it’s extremely important that you don’t let them down. So how do you do that? In this...
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A lively presentation of insights, tips and techniques for parents of children ages 12 months through 25 years. Hosted by best selling author and parenting expert Julie Ross M.A. (www.ParentingHorizons.com) and Dr. Elizabeth Cohen.
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