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the Mudroom — 211 episodes

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4 Tips to Master the Art of Merging Structured Routines and Spontaneous Adventures for Kids

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For the absolutely exhausted parents

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Is Parenting Burning You Out?

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Sleep is IMPORTANT for YOU too!

5

Let Them Play Outside

6

Balancing Work and Family This Summer

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Does ParentAbility work? (Don’t just take my word for it)

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I stopped forcing my kids to wear jackets

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Misbehaviour? Technology to the rescue!

10

How Do You Talk To Your Child About Their Diagnosis

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What Are Executive Functions and How Do They Impact Behaviour?

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Why is My Child Having a Problem Making Decisions?

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Teach Your Child to Entertain Themselves!

14

Recognize When Your Child is Making Progress

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Why do kids whine?

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Homework - GET RID OF IT!

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Are You Having a "Bluetooth" Connection with Your Child?

18

Why Kids Don't Do Things They Know How to Do

19

"Gentle Parenting" doesn't Mean Being a Doormat

20

Is it Ok to Cry in Front Of Your Child?

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Why is My Child Biting?

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Thinking of Holding Your Kid Back a Grade?

23

How to Validate Your Child's Emotions

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Can I Interrupt Your Real Quick?

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Trauma Bonding

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Answering the Tough Questions With Your Child

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How Do I Stop The Incessent Noise?

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Preparing for Kindergarten

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How to Structure Your Child's Summer Break

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Are Extracurricular Classes Good or Bad?

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My Child Loves Dad (or Mom) More...

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Is it Inclusion or Integration?

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How to Pick a Preschool

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Becoming a Mom VS Becoming a Dad

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My kid can’t focus! Should I be worried?

36

Is the Toothfairy and Easter Bunny Real?

37

Bribes and Boundaries With Your Child

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How to Handle Your Child Cursing

39

How to Stop Your Child from Being Aggressive

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Why are kids so emotional?!

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Talking To Your Child About Scary Stuff

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Autism Awareness

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How to Talk to Your Child About What is Happening in Ukraine

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What Does The Play Stage Look Like For Your Child?

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Teaching Your Child Kindness

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How Do You Motivate Your Child?

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When Can a Parenting Coach Help with Your Child?

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Are You Seeing an Increase in Emotional Breakdowns?

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No Child Is The Same

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Why You Need To Take Care Of Yourself First

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Encouraging Your Child to Have a Healthy Bond With Their Sibling

52

Why is My Child Misbehaving?

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Teaching Your Child How to Deal with Bullies

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Sometimes Kids Just Want to Watch...and that OK

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How to Deal With Your Child's Aggression

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The Pygmalion Effect and Your Child

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How to Teach Your Child Empathy

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Why Using "But" With Your Kids Can Be Damaging

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Holiday Season Is Here! Survive it Without Turning into a Grinch!

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How to Discuss Historical Events With Your Child

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How to Approach Your Child's Teacher with a Disagreement?

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Are You Helping Your Child Succeed?

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Trick or Treating Post Quarantine

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How To Not Raise An Entitled Brat

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How To Deal With Your Attention Seeking Child

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Why We Should Get Rid Of Behaviour Charts

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Are You Struggling With Daycare Drop Offs?

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How Do I Brush Up My Child's Skills?

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How Do I Be A Respectful Parent?

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Is Your Child Ready To Go Back To School?

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What Is The Risk Of Your Child Being Abducted?

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Is Your Child Happy?

73

Why Does Your Child Need More Support With Certain Tasks?

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Why Does Going On Vacation Stress Out Your Child?

75

Is Your Child Getting Tired Of Their Extra Curricular Activities?

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Does Your Kid Make Constant Out-Of-Place Noises?

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Why You Need To Nurture Your Child's Strength

78

Why Is My Child So Clingy?

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How To Bridge The Gap When It Comes To Disciplining Your Child

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My Child Is Starting Kindergarten In The Fall.... Help Please!

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Why Is My Child Harming Themselves... On Purpose???

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Why Don't Our Kids Listen Unless We YELL?!?

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Are You Using Time Timer With Your Child?

84

What Is Sensory Stress? When Does it Happen?

85

Why Are We Seeing A Spike In Aggression In Our Children?

86

Are You Feeling Burnt Out With Over Playing With Your Child?

87

What Exactly Is Stress?

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Your Child Needs To Observe Rather Than Participate, Save Your Money!

89

How To Teach Your Child Empathy

90

What Is Toxic And Healthy Stress?

91

Why Is Boredom Important?

92

How Do I Deal With My Child's Tantrums and Meltdowns?

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How Do I Navigate Through Rough Play With My Child?

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What Is The Difference Between Punishment and Discipline?

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Is Your Child Listening?

96

3 Pillars To Getting Your Child To Behave

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Is My Child Growing Out Of This?

98

When Is Consistency Not Serving Your Parenting?

99

Can You Use A Parenting Coach?

100

Why Boomers Struggle To Understand Millennial Parenting

101

Is My Child Normal?

102

Help With Virtual Learning

103

Is There A Secret To A Perfect Child?

104

What It Is Like To Have The Right Team Member?

105

How Do I Buy A Car Seat?

106

Why Does My Child Hit And Think It Is Funny?

107

How To Deal With Mean Words From My Child?

108

Please Help Me With My Two-Year-Old!

109

How To Talk To Your Child About Historical Events

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Focus On Your Children’s “Easy” Skills Before Tackling the Difficult Stuff

111

Why You Need To Work On Your Child’s Skills 10 Minutes a Day

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4 Tips to Help You To Get Your Kids To Listen

113

Ask For Help During the Pandemic!

114

Are You Really Too Busy to Customize a Process for Your Child?

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Are Time-Ins Any Better Than Time-Outs?

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Are You Making Your Child’s Irrational Fears Worse?

117

Is Your Child Having Trouble Coping with 2020 Changes?

118

Are Your Kids Only Calm When They’re In Front of a Screen?

119

Should My Children Go Back to Daycare or School?

120

Do Good Get Rewarded, Do Bad Get Punished....This Does Not Work!

121

How Do I Reintroduce My Child Back Into Society After COVID?

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Why Is My Child So Rigid In Their Thinking?

123

What Age Should We Start Talking About Racism?

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Are You Getting Stuck In Your Own Head Regarding Your Child's Behaviour Problems?

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When I Am Looking Into Parenting Support Is Certification Important?

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How Do I Deal With My Aggressive Child?

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Are You Setting Your Baby Up for Uncommon Sense Parenting Success?

128

Are You Focusing On The Micro Problems With Your Child's Behaviour?

129

How Do I Lower The Bar On Good Behaviour?

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My Child Is Regressing During This Isolation! Help!

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How Do I Teach My Kids To Support And Be Kind To Each Other?

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HELP ME! My child is always wanting my attention!

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Navigating Through Isolation and Social Distancing With Your Child

134

How Do I Survive Long Weekends Snow Days and School Strikes With My Child??

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Does It Feel Like No One Is Believing You As A Mother? Or A Woman?

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You Changed Your Parenting Technique.... But It Isn't Working, Why???

137

You Don't Need A Schedule To Be Predictable And Consistent!

138

Why is My Child is Never Calm?!

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Punishment VS Discipline

140

Trauma Bonding

141

Why Is My Child An Angel For Everyone Else

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If Behaviour is Communication, Should We Believe Our Children

143

They Already Know Its Wrong!

144

Maintaining The Consistency During The Holidays

145

Planning for Failure

146

Why You Need A Parenting Coach

147

One of The Reasons Your Child Is Struggling with Independent Play

148

The Clumps

149

Scared Focusing on Skill Building Will Produce Entitled Kids?

150

Bodily Autonomy

151

Putting Limits Around Space

152

Back To School Tips - 2019

153

Back Episode: Why Yelling Really Doesn't Work

154

Why build skills in early childhood vs elementary school?

155

Lying

156

The "Sex" Talk

157

4 Things To Do NOW If You Want Well Behaved Kids

158

Boys Will Be Boys

159

Social Justice

160

4 Things Calm Parents Do Daily

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Parents Are The Change!

162

Extinction Bursts

163

What Exactly Is Stress?

164

Comfort With Discomfort

165

Your Kids Need to Play Outside WITHOUT YOU.

166

Giving Your Child More Freedom Without Going Crazy with Worry: PING GPS

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How to Ask for Help at School and Have the Teacher Listen

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Natural and Logical Consequences

169

Visuals

170

Consistency is Key

171

The Limbic Leap

172

Children Don't Level Up: the Developmental Continuum

173

Defiance vs. Lack of Skills

174

You Are the Expert On Your Child

175

Can We be done with Zero Tolerance?

176

Parental Preference

177

Earlier is Not Better

178

Your Kids Need Time Away From You

179

Let's Talk About Time Timers!

180

Misbehaviour vs. Stress Behaviour

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Banish Behaviour Charts

182

Getting Dad on Board

183

Practice Makes Perfect

184

Disagreeing With Your Child's Teacher

185

Back Episode: What Causes Tantrums?

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Consent + Rough and Tumble Play

187

Sharing

188

You Don't Have to Play With Your Kids

189

Back Episode: Stop Saying No to Your Kids

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Why Corporal Punishment is Unacceptable in 2018

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Collaborating with your Child

192

Things Shit Moms Do

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Boundaries = Safety

194

Back Episode: Teaching Things You Don't Know How to Do

195

Back Episode: Criticisms of Mainstream Attachment Parenting

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Support Vs. Punishment

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Back Episode: Bronfenbrenner

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What makes play- PLAY?!

199

Back Episode: Breaking Down Blanket Time

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Back Episode: Albert Bandura

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Kids Who Ask Questions They KNOW the Answer To!

202

Back Episode: Erik Erikson

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Referencing- Why Your Child Stops, Looks at You, And Continues to Misbehave.

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Back Episode: The Two Questions You Need to Answer to Solve ANY Behaviour Issue.

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What's Up with Young Kids Self-Harming?

206

Back Episode: John Dewey

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Back Episode: Jean Piaget

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Don't Ask, Tell: Using Controlled Choices

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Back Episode: Maria Montessori

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Back Episode: Lev Vygotsky

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Loris Malaguzzi & Reggio Emilia