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The Empowering Parents Podcast - Child Behavior Help The Total Transformation Way — 198 episodes
Letting Your Child Face Natural Consequences -- Here's How
How to Deal With Your Child’s Attitude
Kids, Blaming, and Apologies: Everything After “But” is Bull
Grieving Your Child Who’s “Gone Wrong”
When Kids Get Violent: “There’s No Excuse for Abuse”
Am I a Bad Parent? Dealing With Parenting Guilt
When Kids Save Their Bad Behavior for You
Learned Helplessness in Our Kids
Parenting Tips Roundup
Stop the Nightly Struggle Over Schoolwork
Consequences 101
Parent the Child You Have, Not the Child You Wish You Had
Mother or Martyr: Are You Doing Too Much for Your Child?
Disrespectful Child Behavior: Where to Draw the Line
Your Child Is Not Your Friend
What Not to Do When Dealing With a Disrespectful Child
Is Your Child Using Anger To Control You?
Challenging Parenting Issues: The 5 Hardest Things Parents Face
Stop the Blame Game: How to Teach Your Child To Stop Making Excuses and Start Taking Responsibility
Child Rage: How to Manage Explosive Anger in Kids and Teens
Negative Children: How To Deal With a Complaining Child or Teen
How To Manage Your Family During the Holidays
What You Are and Aren't Responsible For as a Parent
5 Secrets for Communicating With Your Teenager
Your Child's Behaviors Explained: Dishonesty, Minsinformation, and False Apologies
Your Child and Negative Role Models, Putting Things Off, and Constant Arguing
Further Understanding the Characteristics of Kids With Defiant and Abusive Behaviors
Victimhood, Injustice, and Other Fake Excuses for Our Child's Behavior
Perfect Parents Don't Exist: Good Enough is Good Enough
The Myth of Self-Esteem and Your Child's Behavior
Why Does My Child Act This Way?
Divorce and Your Child's Behavior
How to Create a Culture of Accountability in Your Home
“Our Morning Routine Isn’t Working”— 6 Ways to Fix It Now
What to Do When You Dislike Your Child
Perfect Parents Don’t Exist: Forgive Yourself for These 6 Parenting Mistakes
Kids Who Mock, Imitate, and Make Fun of Parents
The Skills Every Child Needs for Good Behavior
How To End the Arguing: Explain Yourself Once and Then Move On
Five Parenting Rules That Don’t Work: How to Separate Fact from Fiction
Your Defiant Child’s Behavior: What You Can—and Can’t—Control as a Parent
Dealing with Anger in Children and Teens: Why Is My Child So Angry?
How To End Your Child's Backtalk
Managing Adult Children Living at Home
Disrespectful Child Behavior? Don’t Take It Personally
You Are Not To Blame for Your Child’s Behavior
No Means No: How to Teach Your Child to Accept ‘No’ for an Answer
Is Your Defiant Child Damaging or Destroying Your Home?
Do Your Kids Disrespect You? 9 Ways to Change Their Attitude
Kids Who Ignore Consequences: 10 Ways To Make Them Stick
When to Let Your Child Face Natural Consequences
Life Skills: 5 Tips To Help Your Child Make It in the Real World
Total Transformation Program Lesson 1.7: The final segment: dishonesty and misinformation, false apologies, the turnaround, and partialization
Total Transformation Program Lesson 1.6: More characteristics of kids with abusive behaviors: one-way role models, wishful thinking, put-offs, and casing
Total Transformation Program Lesson 1.5: More characteristics of kids with abusive behaviors: concrete transactions, pride in negativity, anger with an angle, and one-way training.
Total Transformation Program Lesson 1.4: The characteristics of kids with abusive behaviors: the victim stance, injustice, uniqueness, and one-way boundaries
Total Transformation Program Lesson 1.3: The "good enough" parent
Total Transformation Program Lesson 1.2: Self-esteem, learning disorders, and special challenges
The Total Transformation Program Lesson 1.1: Why does my child act this way?
Does Your Child Give You the Silent Treatment? 6 Rules for Getting Kids to Talk
Angry Child Outbursts: 10 Essential Rules for Dealing with an Angry Child
Tips for Effective Consequences
Motivating Underachievers: 9 Steps to Take When Your Child Says “I Don’t Care”
9 Ways To Get Through the Holidays (or Any Time) With a Defiant Child
The Strengths of the Oppositional Defiant Child
Kids Who Steal: What You Need To Know
“Am I a Bad Parent?” How to Let Go of Parenting Guilt
How to Manage Tantrums, Misbehavior, and Meltdowns During the Holidays
How to Use Consequences to Maintain Your Parental Authority
"I’m Right and You’re Wrong!" Is Your Child a Know-It-All?
When You Should Let Your Child Fail: The Benefits of Natural Consequences
Ground Rules for Living With an Adult Child
Manipulative Child Behavior? My Kids Are "Too Smart for Their Own Good"
When Your Child Uses Anger as a Weapon
Anger with an Angle: Is Your Child Using Anger to Control You?
Creating a Family Structure and Other Parenting Wisdom From Dr. Maria Gilmour
The Surprising Reason for Bad Child Behavior: “I Can’t Solve Problems”
"Help! My child complains constantly!"
Tired of Your Child’s Backtalk? Here’s How to Stop It
Managing Your Child’s Meltdowns and Tantrums
Motivating the Unmotivated Child
Acting Out in School: What To Do When Your Child is the Class Troublemaker
I Love My Child…But Sometimes I Can’t Stand Him
Back to School Tips: Prepare Your Child Now for the Upcoming Year
Siblings at War in Your Home? Tips to Manage Sibling Rivalry
Do You Tiptoe Around Your Child?
8 Ways to Manage Acting-Out Kids
“I Hate You, Mom! I Wish You Were Dead!” — How to Respond When Kids Say Hurtful Things
Is It an Adolescent Phase—or Out-of-Control Behavior?
The Bullying Parent: Why Aggressive Parenting Doesn’t Work
Teen Curfews—How and When to Negotiate
Your Child Is Not Your Friend
Why Consequences Are Not Enough
Consequences 101
How to Talk to Your Child About Lying
Is the consequence we gave our son too harsh?
Blended Families: What to Do When Your Stepchild Disrespects You
How to Manage Poor Hygiene in Children: “My Kid Stinks-Help!”
4 Tips to Get Kids to Clean Their Rooms
How to Use Consequences to Maintain Your Parental Authority
How to Stop Threats and Verbal Abuse
Kids Who are Verbally Abusive: The Creation of a Defiant Child
How to Deal With a Mouthy Child
Low Self-Esteem and Your Child's Behavior
Our Top 8 Parenting Tips
“My Child Refuses to Do Homework” — How to Stop the Nightly Struggle Over Schoolwork
“Will My Kid Be Messed Up Forever?”
5 Tips to Deal With Lying in Children and Teens
Explain Yourself Once and Move On
Disrespect: How to Manage a Disrespectful Child
How To Stop Arguing With Your Child
Smart but Helpless Kids: Can Your Child Make It in the Real World?
How to Discipline Your Kids in Public
3 Parenting Styles That Undermine Your Authority
6 Ways to Stop Sibling Bickering and Rivalry
How to Talk to Your Child About Lying
Backtalk: Should You Ignore It?
4 Steps to Changing Child Behavior
Our 8 Best Parenting Tips for 2015
A Message of Hope for Parents of Defiant Children
Using Consequences to Maintain Your Parental Authority
How to Respond to Disrespectful Children and Teens
Anger, Guilt and Spending on Kids: 8 Questions to Ask Before Buying Anything
Ground Rules for Living with an Adult Child
Teen Temper Tantrums: 3 Steps to Stop the Screaming
The Strengths of the Oppositional Defiant Child
Homework and Bedtime Arguments: 8 Tips for Calmer Nights with Kids
Setting Limits with Difficult Kids: Are You Too Strict?
Dreading Parent-Teacher Conferences? Try This New Approach
Keeping Kids Safe Online and Offline
Our Morning Routine Isn't Working - How to Fix It Now
6 Brain Training Exercises for Children and Teens
Parental Anxiety? 5 Ways to Relieve the Worry
Ask Once and Your Kid Does It: 5 Ways to Make It Happen
8 Steps to Anger Management for Kids
Your Defiant Child's Behavior: 5 Things You Can--and Can't--Control as a Parent
The Surprising Reason for Bad Child Behavior: "I Can't Solve Problems"
Negotiating with Kids: When You Should and Shouldn't
Punishments vs. Consequences: Which Are You Using?
Are You Doing Too Much for Your Child?
4 Steps to Managing Your Child's Screen Time
"Sometimes I Don't Like My Child"
How to Talk to Your Child About Marijuana: 4 Responses for Parents
Is Your Child Responsible Enough to be Home Alone? Dos and Don'ts for Parents
Inside Your Teen's Brain: 7 Things Your Teenager Really Wants You to Know
Is it ADHD or Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Disorder? 4 Ways to Help Your Child Focus
Disrespectful Kids: How to Get Your Child or Teen to Behave with Respect
Life Lessons for Kids and Teens: 5 Skills Every Child Needs to Learn
How to Talk to Teens: 3 Ways to Get Your Teen to Listen
How to Stop Worrying and Avoid Helicopter Parenting: Don’t Do These 6 Things
5 of the Hardest Things Parents Face: How to Handle the Most Challenging Parenting Issues
The Cool Kids: How to Help Your Child or Teen Deal with Peer Pressure, Exclusion and Cliques
Losing Your Temper with Your Child? 8 Steps to Help You Stay in Control
Parenting Your Adult Child: How to Set up a Mutual Living Agreement
Parenting Teens: 5 Ineffective Things to Avoid Doing
Positive Parenting: 5 Rules to Help You Deal with Negative Child Behavior More Positively
Defiant Young Children and Toddlers: 5 Things Not to Do
Signs of Parental Abuse: What to Do When Your Child or Teen Hits You
Child Losing Steam? How to Keep Kids and Teens Motivated at School
In Over Your Head? How to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Regain Control as a Parent
How to Parent Fairly When One of Your Children Has ADHD
ADHD/ADD Kids and Anger with Dr. Bob Myers
Raising Teens with ADHD
Is Your ADHD Child an Expert at Making Messes?
ADHD Kids And Lying
When You Don't Like Your Child's Friends: How to Handle It as a Parent
Activities to Help Your ADD/ADHD Child Focus
Dr. Bob Myers Talks about Parenting His Own Son with ADHD
How to Help ADHD kids Focus at School
What to Do When Your Child is Bullied
Getting ADHD Kids Organized and Ready for School
ADHD Kids and Annoying Behavior
Alternatives to Medicating Kids with ADHD
The Key to Giving Kids Consequences
How to Handle Inappropriate Behavior with ADHD Kids: Positive Reinforcement
Giving Consequences to Young Kids with ADHD
Chores: Get Your Child to Start Doing Them Today
Teen Curfews
Take 60 Seconds
Establish a Complaint Time
Let the Child Do It
Use Task-Oriented Consequences
Don't Personalize Things
Tell Them to Do it Once
Feedback: "This Behavior Doesn't Solve Your Problem."
Keep Your Child's Eyes on the Prize
Teens and Clothing
Eliminate the WHY
Accept Bad Moods and Bad Days
Self-Disclosure to the Child
Take Away the Audience
Script It for the Next Time
Halt Over-Stimulation
Use Strategic Recognition and Affection
Actions ARE Louder than Words
Focus on the Behavior
No Speeches
Assume Control