The 3D Parent Podcast

"I wanted to shift gears today and talk about something different because my brain just needed a change, and you probably are sick of hearing it too. So let's take a journey together in a completely different direction. I want to talk today about having ‘the talk’ with your kids."   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, we will be discussing human sexuality and how you as parents can have a con...

“My topic today is going to be relevant while we are in the midst of the stay-at-home orders during this pandemic.  Right now, we have a lot of time for sibling togetherness and there's a lot of positives there, with families being together and spending so many hours of every day together, under one roof.”    This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, we will be talking about supporting si...

“This is kind of a reality podcast where you're hearing exactly what I'm talking about, happening all around me. So this is the topic, and of course, it's a very  pressing one right now because of what we're all dealing with, with the school closures and parents like us are working from home. Some child care centers are closed, people are closing businesses and others are out of work. For som...

“Now, the ways in which different people are approaching home learning is really varying. It varies state by state and school by school. Some schools have full-fledged remote learning up and running and it is going great. Other schools have just given optional assignments to their families and they can't require remote learning.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, we'll share with you valu...

“I have many different varieties of orchids in my own household. From the very rare and exotic 100% highly-sensitive orchid child to children who are more dandelion-like, but have a few high sensitivities in certain areas of their life.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, I am going to talk about a topic that is very near and dear to my heart which is parenting the highly sensitive child....

“We are going through some really unchartered territory right now all over the world. For me, specifically in Seattle with the Coronavirus outbreak in my area being so heavily impacted. It is really impacting all aspects of family life. For me, my family, my neighbors, my friends and other people in our greater area.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, our discussion will be centered aroun...

"It's probably been going on for the past two, maybe two and a half years. As I said, my son is six and a half years old and any time we're in a social gathering, social setting, he goes into a kind of hyperdrive, on a regular basis."   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, we're going to listen in on this live parent coaching session where I will be working with the parent of a 6 year old boy,...

"All of us have experienced at one time or another, our children lying when they're young. It can be kind of cute, they're not very good at lying (but) as they get older, it can become a more persistent problem. It can be distressing for parents and sometimes parents get really fearful that they're raising a pathological liar or a child who is going to really struggle with being honest and telling...

“Sometimes kids get into trouble in restaurants because we're not really focused on them. We kind of turn our attention off to our kids and instead maybe we're engaging in conversations with the other adults at the table, and we kind of lose focus that our kids actually need our attention and our direction …“   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, I will be answering three questions from liste...

“Kids who have the opportunity to do this open ended play, these children grow up into really confident older children, teens, tweens and adults, because they have this kind of ability to work through emotions, discover passions, work on critical thinking skills and creativity, and develop their own self sense of self …”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, we will be learning about the impo...

“… you're completely right. When we address it in the moment, it doesn't have the same impact because then all those defenses are up. So we have to address it and have this conversation outside of the incident.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, I will be coaching a parent through some struggles with potty training her daughter.  We will discuss some of the events leading up to this,...

“Give them jobs and engage them in the process to keep them interested, keep them from running around and find their own ways to entertain them. If they're engaged in the process, less likely they're going to be causing problems.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, we will be discussing tips and tricks to make that trip to the store more manageable and avoid those meltdowns.   We will...

“Interest in doing something that might be a little bit hard, but you've pushed through, gosh, that's where the self-confidence and the resilience can really, really grow.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, I will be answering questions from you, the parents, around situations that are particularly difficult for you at this moment in your parenting journey.   The topics we will be co...

“ … my kids are faced with all these challenges, which causes emotional reactions in them, which can sometimes trigger emotional reactions in me. And so I'm not always executing where my intentions are as a parent. I'm not always able to reach the standard I set for myself and my parenting. But here's the thing, I'm OK with that. I'm human. I am not a robot. I don't always do things perfectly.” &n...

“ … aggression is really what happens for kids when they don't want to feel something that is very vulnerable. So when there's a there's an underlying feeling that they just don't want to face, a lot of times kids will lash out in aggression.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, I welcome a fellow parent and friend, Elizabeth and we are going to be focusing today’s episode around working th...

“I had made it all about me. I had somehow put this in this category of I was going to get judged or I was going to be a bad parent if my child's homework wasn't done, if it wasn't done to my standards and if it wasn't turned in on time.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, we are talking about the dreaded homework struggle.  Truth be told, I thought that I would not have a problem sup...

“ … you might be feeling a little bit of grief, a little bit of sadness over the fact that your child is kind of growing out of another aspect of babyhood ... “   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, I will be answering three of your questions surrounding struggles you may currently be experiencing on your parenting journey.  The topics that I will be covering include, separation anxiety...

“We‌ ‌need‌ ‌to‌ ‌move‌ ‌away‌ ‌from‌ ‌thinking‌ ‌that‌ ‌performance‌ ‌is‌ ‌more‌ ‌important‌ ‌than‌ ‌the‌ ‌actual‌ ‌ process‌ ‌of‌ ‌going‌ ‌through‌ ‌and‌ ‌developing‌ ‌these‌ ‌feelings‌ ‌…‌ ‌We‌ ‌want‌ ‌them‌ ‌to‌ ‌be‌ ‌able‌ ‌to‌ ‌look‌ ‌at‌ ‌ their‌ ‌sibling‌ ‌or‌ ‌their‌ ‌peer‌ ‌that‌ ‌is‌ ‌upset‌ ‌that‌ ‌they‌ ‌have‌ ‌upset‌ ‌and‌ ‌kind‌ ‌of‌ ‌put‌ ‌themselves‌ ‌in‌ ‌that‌ ‌ child's‌ ‌shoes‌...

“It is important to kind of say, I can take this. I can help you. Oh yeah, worries are hard. I'm in this with you so that they kind of feel like this sense of security.  Like I don't have to handle this all on my own.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, I take you through a live parent coaching example with Sara Dean.  Sara Dean is a mom, wife and the creator and host of the Sham...

“If you're trying to force motivation by nagging them, threatening them with punishments or giving them bribes to try to get them to be motivated, you're not actually helping them develop this intrinsic self-motivation, which is really the key here.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, we are going to talk about cultivating intrinsic motivation in your children to accomplish a task or goal....

“Young children and immature children only have the ability and the capacity to experience and feel one emotion at a time.”   This week on the 3D Parent Podcast, we are going to be discussing childhood aggression.  Now, there are so many aspects to this topic I’m sure we will be re-visiting it, but today I just wanted to identify what it is, where it comes from, and how to handle it in t...

“I want to encourage you, the 3D parent podcast listener, to collectively reject this notion that we've come to accept as normal in our society, as normal in our culture, that kids grow up into teens who hate and reject their parents. That is just not true.”   On this episode of the 3D Parent podcast, I am going to be taking the time to answer listener questions!  Some topics that come u...

“One of the most commonly discussed issues in my parent coaching practice with my clients is the mornings. How to get through the mornings without meltdowns, without chaos, without everybody ending up yelling at each other, with kids crying and just a whole mess that you feel terrible about the rest of the day.”   This week on the 3D Parent podcast, we will be discussing some tips and tricks...

“It's like if the parents and the teachers aren't talking. It's like trying to build something with a door in between you, and trying to have two people building the same thing, but not communicating at all about it.”   This week on the 3D Parent podcast, we are talking to Meghan Lanouette.  She is a second grade teacher in Seattle, Washington with over 14 year experience in elementary e...

“Think of the discipline again as a word that is meant to be about leadership.  It requires us as parents to take responsibility for our children and be able to identify what's not working so that we can address it.”   On this episode of the 3D Parent Podcast, we will be diving into disciplining your children with dignity.  We will be reviewing the older, more popular ways to discip...