Dr. Blevins discusses when a parent has a behavior or development concern for their child, but it doesn't quite feel like it's big enough to see a specialist. When you feel there probably isn't a diagnosis, what do you do? She's discussing her thoughts on how parents might approach these tough questions.
Read MoreAlternative Treatments
Today we are talking about alternative treatments for supporting your child's behavior. Alternative treatments might be things like essential oils, elimination diets, using the moon to decide when you will go out for fun activities versus hunkering down in anticipation of naughty behavior, and other types of old wives tales and Instagram / Pinterest wisdom that is not necessarily linked to evidence-based studies. Many providers, including physicians, psychologists, therapist, and others, get this question all the time. It's a very important question because it frames the way that you as a parent will approach treatment for your child and the energy and attributions you give to interventions along your child's journey.
Read MoreValues-Based Scheduling
It's hard to feel like you're moving toward your big goals and living your best life when there is always a load of laundry that needs folding or homework that needs to be completed. Today's video talks about framing your schedule in the context of your big values for your family, so that you don't get lost or overwhelmed by the mundane daily life stuff. When we focus on how the smallest of our actions contributes to teaching our children how to live out the values we most aspire to, it makes it a bit easier to do those tasks with joy, patience, and purpose. I provide a couple strategies to get you started with values-based scheduling. Let me know how it goes!
Read MoreWhy doesn't my child listen to me?
I'm sharing a parent question and answer video I made from my new Facebook group, Positive Parenting Q and A, today.
Today's video focuses on understanding why a child might be responsive and compliant with one parent and not with the other parent and how I address it in therapy. This is a very COMMON question!
I discuss three big reasons for this phenomenon. I also discuss how I approach healing the parent-child relationship to…
Treating Lice: Cultural Dimensions & What Teachers and Parents Can Do
Today I'm chatting with Certified Lice Technician, Danni Hall. She is the owner of The Alaska Lice Clinic, LLC. We have a rich discussion about a common childhood problem that shows up from time to time. We discuss how schools might stop the spread of a lice outbreak, how parents can help prevent their child from getting lice, and how cultural factors have led to some school policy changes since I was a kid. I have to say that this conversation was so GOOD, and I hope that you all out there get as much out of as I did.
Read MoreA psychologist mom uses mindfulness to teach emotion regulation to her autistic kid
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.
Read MoreWhy are Anxiety and ADHD confused so often?
Dr. Blevins discusses why ADHD or ADD are commonly confused with anxiety. She talks about how this confusion can happen in the first place and
Read MoreUsing a Calm Down Toolkit
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.
Read MoreHow to use a calendar to reduce stress and get things done
Dr. Blevins talks about how she uses a planner to decrease busy-ness stress. Many of us create never ending to-do lists. Just looking at them can increase our stress. Today Dr. Blevins discusses a special planner, the bullet journal, and how she uses it to train herself to better understand how long it takes her to do common tasks and how to let go of a perfectionistic mindset. What is a bullet journal? With time, the bullet journal creates a mindfulness practice around your day and how
Read MoreGiftedness and Special Needs
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!)
Read MoreHow to Treat Child Aggression
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…
Read MoreHow to do breathing and mindfulness | Working with a physical/yoga therapist and psychologist
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
Read MoreChild Stuttering and Anxiety | Chatting with an SLP
I'm discussing child stuttering and the often observed anxiety in children today with speech-language pathologist, Kelly Clendaniel, MS, CCC-SLP. Kelly has a special interest in stuttering as well as a child who stutters. She provides up-to-date information on what parents and providers should know about stuttering. I then jump in with information about how anxiety and anxiety disorders develop and are maintained. Anxiety is increasingly understood to be…
Read MoreHow to find a psychologist to evaluate your child
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…
Read MoreTeaching Your Kids About Money
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
Read MoreToddler Sleep... Get you some!
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.
Read MoreCoparenting Therapy
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
Read MoreWhat is clinical behavior analysis?
I'm chatting with Dr. Ben Kennert, licensed psychologist in Michigan and Board Certified Behavior Analyst. We're discussing Clinical Behavior Analysis. It entails several different therapy modalities, including my favorites ACT and PCIT. This is a great conversation for those in the counseling or ABA fields looking to understand the concepts and how clinical behavior analysis is used. It is used very differently than ABA, so be prepared for differences.
Read MoreABA Therapy | Chatting with Traditional Applied Behavior Analysis Therapists
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.
Read MoreTeaching Money Habits to Your Kids | Interview with Tom Corley
I'm interviewing Tom Corley, writer of 5 books on wealth habits, including Rich Kid Poor Kid and his newest book Effortless Wealth. He draws on his data collected from hundreds of people falling into two categories, Rich or Poor. Many of the daily habits and lifestyle mindset habits are super easy. You may find that you're already doing a few. Tom explains how his work with wealthy people, and those striving to become wealthy helped him to understand that it boils down to what you do each day. Our conversation goes into some of the questions I often get
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