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Happy Holidays, Neuro Ninjas! Join Adam and Andrew for a festive special where they discuss 12 ways to manage your mind over the Christmas holidays! Adam also tries and fails to make dad sing. Tough being the son of a Scrooge. -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in yo...

In which Adam and Andrew explore: What is neural diversity? What are the different types of neural diversity? Why are there so many people who are neurally diverse now? How can we help people with neural diversity? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with mor...

In which Adam and Andrew explore: Why do we struggle to concentrate sometimes? How can we manage our concentration? How can we reduce how distracted we are? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brains are incredible, they...

In which Adam and Andrew explore: What is sensory overload? Why does it impact different people in different ways? How can we help someone with sensory overload? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brains are incredible,...

In which Adam and Andrew explore Why are brains negative a lot of the time? Why is worrying so pessimistic? What can I do about my pessimistic thinking? How can we balance our thinking? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Ou...

In which we explore: Why is competition all of the time not a great experience in our brains? Why does winning mean so much to some people? What are the benefits of playing games apart from winning? How can I enjoy games more without my competitive nature putting me in a grump if I lose? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite...

In which Adam and Andrew explore:  Why is anger my go to emotion? What is the relationship between anger and sadness? Why is anger so satisfying? How can I manage my anger? How can I manage my emotions? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engag...

In this episode, Adam and Andrew explore: What are obsessive and compulsive loops? Why do we have them? Why do we get stuck in them? What can we do to get out of them? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brains are incre...

In this episode, Andrew and Adam answer the questions: What are intrusive thoughts? Why do I have them? How can I manage them? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brains are incredible, they are the best bit of kit we wi...

In this episode Adam and Andrew discuss: Why do screens put us in a low mood? Why do screens seem to increase overthinking? How can we develop a healthy relationship with screens? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brai...

In this episode we Adam and Andrew explore: Why we overthink? What we can do to manage overthinking? How we can help ourselves and our children stop overthinking? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brains are incredible...

What do I lack motivation sometimes and get filled with can’t be botheredness? How does making a daily plan help my brain to get stuff done? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brains are incredible, they are the best bi...

How do our brains learn? How can we learn faster? Why is practice so important? We also reveal guaranteed way to improve your times tables!!! -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brains are incredible, they are the best b...

What are emotions? How do we manage them? What do we need to do each day to process our feelings? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brains are incredible, they are the best bit of kit we will ever own but no-one ever t...

Why is building our calm so important? Do you have positive coping strategies? If so, what are they? How can we help ourselves respond to stress positively? -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brains are incredible, they...

What even is mind management? What are the most important skills we need to develop to manage our mind? How do we manage our worries? Answers to all these questions and more in this episode. -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and aw...

We are built to move, if we move more we increase our mood, help our creativity and problem-solving and reduce our negative thinking. In this episode we look at the power of exercise to support our mental and physical health. -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your bra...

Sleep is one the most important things we can do for our well-being. If we get good sleep we are really taking a giant step towards positive well-being. In this episode we explore why sleep is so important and how to protect it. -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your...

Well-being is a skill, there are 12 behaviours and activities that really make a huge difference to how we feel each day, in this episode we introduce the 12 Rocks and explain why they are so important. -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engag...

What is mental flexibility? Why is it so important? How do we improve our mental flexibility every day? Join us to find out. -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in your brain with more joy, engagement and awe. Our brains are incredible, they are the best bit of kit we will...

Have you ever wondered who you really are? Or where you really are? When you become a #NeuroNinja you learn to understand yourself from the inside out, let us get you interested and excited about your amazing brain and what it can do. -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our amazing brain. We bring you bite-sized brain science to help you and your kids live in...

Got those Back to School Wobbles? We can help, bite-sized brain science to help our children manage their minds as they return to schools. (Psst - Works for teachers and support staff too!!!) Resources from today's episode (Links): Worry to solution flowchart Worry to solution example Distraction technique example -------- AYP Spike is a podcast for children, parents and carers all about our a...