Every Day Parenting Podcast

Kids should just want to eat, right? Any parent that thinks kids will just eat when they are hungry have never met a picky eater. Dr. Bostwick gives ideas and harsh realities of how to get kids to eat from infancy to the teen years.

Dr. Bostwick shares her family's story about suicide. Suicide prevention and education is deeply personal and a passion that fuels her work with depressed kids and teens. It may be difficult to hear, but listening may also make a difference you never expected.

No parent wants their child to hurt so much that they want to hurt themselves. For many parents, self-injurious behavior is difficult to understand. For most, it scares them and leaves them feeling helpless. Dr. Bostwick talks about what she hears from kids who are cutting and offers direction in finding help.

Parenting after divorce is just as difficult as during a divorce. More help Dr. Bostwick has gathered from kids over the years about what makes going back and forth from their house with mom and their house with dad easier.

Parenting every day is hard. Parenting every day before, during, and after divorce is even harder. In this episode Dr. Bostwick offers considerations about the benefits for kids when parents set aside hard feelings toward their other parent and work toward a new and healthy normal.

Changing diapers is one of our first tasks as caregivers. Getting children out of diapers becomes a major goal almost immediately. Diapers are expensive and the independence of kids going to the bathroom by themselves is a great developmental milestone. This episode gives you support to get through potty training in a positive way!

We are born with anxiety. Learning to manage anxiety is a life lesson helpful to teach kids. Episode 1 of our second season supports parents who are teaching anxiety management to their children.

The homework episode gives ideas about how to get through homework battles with your kids. How to motivate your kids instead of dictate rules about homework.

How do you "get" your kids to get along? Sometimes you don't, can't, or maybe even shouldn't. A new way to think about parenting siblings. Playing together is a privilege.

What I hear teenagers need from their parents and how I applied their secrets at home with my own teenagers. Now you can, too!

The smarter the kid, the more they hide dyslexia. How to suspect, get dyslexia diagnosed, and what to ask for in the classroom.

COVID has changed back to school. Everything a parent needs to know about the transition back to school post"ish" Covid.

Second part of support for parenting through grief and loss for kids and young adults.

Support for parenting through grief and loss; young children through young adults.

Candid, no politics, no judgement discussion about the short and longterm effects of the COVID experience for kids and teens.

ADHD is often very misunderstood. A new look at an old temperament. Could be laziness, anxiety, OCD, learning problems, or it could be attention problems.

There is a hidden reason young children have anxiety and irritability. Most veteran parents won't be able to guess what it is.

Kids aren't broken! It sounds too easy, but it works.

Dang it parenting is hard every day. Christi Bostwick, Ph. D., raised two amazing humans and has been helping families through childhood and adolescence for over 25 years. Practical and irreverent at times. Joined by fellow parent and broadcasting veteran, Rich Larson. Two parents just trying to make a difference in the world.