Today I'm chatting with Dr. Rubia Subhani. She is a psychologist practicing in Georgia and also a parent to an autistic child. Across her professional and personal journey she has developed a mindfulness practice to help her child manage anxiety and behavior flare ups.

To start off the new year we're chatting with Trina Deboree, an elementary school Media Specialist focused on standards-based reading materials and science/STEM/makerspace. She helps teachers and parents create engaging materials that help foster the love of learning in children.

I'm chatting today with a psychologist who specializes in giftedness, Andrea Lein. She and I really nerded out... for a while. We talk about what giftedness is, what twice exceptional is (when a gifted personal has a learning or emotional disability in school), and how parents can approach supporting twice exceptional children. Enjoy!! (I know we did!)

Dr. Blevins discusses how parents and teachers can approach aggression that shows up in children. She discusses how aggression is a form of communication and how parents can start to notice what need that communication serves to meet. She also discusses which service providers are best suited to helping…

Meet Jen Wilking! She is a physical therapist and yoga therapist who has honed in on helping people to learn how to relax their mind and body. In this video she teaches us how to breathe properly, and then we do a live demonstration of a 5-minute mindfulness practice. We discuss how breathing correctly and mindfulness can change your stress level and how parents can

This video discuss how psychologists tend to specialize through their training in certain areas of assessment, and it aims to help parents to find psychological evaluators who are good fits for assessing their children. Common misconceptions with…

I’m so excited to unveil my new interactive Facebook group: Positive Parenting Q and A! You can submit questions and I answer them through facebook live each week. You can also let me know here if you want me to seek out information about a specific topic for learning videos. I’m so excited to chat with you more!

Two financial planners, Sarah and Katie, and a child psychologist, Dr. Leslie Blevins, chat about the ways that parents can teach their children healthy money skills and money mindset from an early age. We discuss earning an allowance and how to use allowance in consequences when your kid makes a mistake. Should you take away your kid's allowance? We also talk about

We're discussing toddler sleep!! This is a dreamy topic for many parents out there. Our expert this week is Erica Harren who is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, or BCBA, and mom of a toddler.

I'm chatting with clinical psychologist, Tiffany Rochester, in Perth, Australia. She specializes in coparenting therapy for divorced and separated parents who aim to work together for the betterment of their child(ren). We discuss what coparenting means, the mindset of providers and parents in effective and ineffective coparenting therapy, the role of the legal system, and common themes of emotions that children display. Many parents have described to me that they feel they're coparenting with

I'm chatting with the owners of Pacific Northwest Behavior, a Spokane, WA based ABA provider to young children with autism and other developmental difficulties. Kourtney and Steve are BCBAs, and we chat about the important ethical considerations of using ABA to honor autistic people's independence while also helping them to gain more independence.

We dive into differential reinforcement and how parents are likely to encounter this behavioral principal with any child on a typical day.

I'm chatting with Michelle Winebender, a Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist for over 25 years (and a good friend of mine). We chat about how to create healthy eating habits in young children so that they grow up to have a good relationship with food. Michelle helps with the super common questions I get "Is my kid eating enough?" and "Will my child get a nutrient deficit if I can't get them to eat more variety?"

Dr. Blevins interviews Laurie Dils, Program Supervisor for Sexual Health Education at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) regarding Bill 5395, the new sex ed bill recently signed into law by Governor Inslee. The bill is currently on referendum fall 2020 for public vote.

Ms. Dils and Dr. Blevins talk through the intention, historical context, and outline of the bill, especially for the kindergarten through third grade social-emotional requirements and the fourth and fifth grade puberty requirements. Ms. Dils also addresses some misinformation on social media about the bill that is prominent on social media.

For parents and educators outside of Washington, this is a good conversation about sex ed generally and how schools play a role and think through the process of helping students through this part of development.

We're taking a break from expert chats today so I can bring you information that I believe is awesome and super helpful to creating a learning-at-home schedule that benefits your child and you.

I'll go into the one big secret that teachers have been doing in Finland's schools for a while now. It helps increase attention and productivity in kids, promotes better mood, and is associated with higher achievement scores and better brain development.

Dyslexia is the topic for this week! This is also known as a Specific Learning Disorder/disability where the deficits are in basic reading skills, namely phonological processing.

Casey Harrison, an expert dyslexia specialist, will go into much greater detail about the ins-and-outs of what this means and other terms you may have heard used with dyslexia. Casey is an internationally sought after dyslexia treatment expert with over 25 years of experience in education.

We discuss what you should look for in a reading specialist if your child needs support and what a good therapeutic reading program entails. We also talk about learning to read more generally, so if your child is a bit younger and you are wondering about the approach to take, this is a great video to watch.

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