All kids get stressed sometimes. They’ll have butterflies leading up to the first day of school or worry about being left out if their BFF plays with someone else at recess. Most kids will complain, maybe cry a little, and then move on. But for the estimated one in five kids in the United States […]
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{Coaching) 5 Stress-Free Ways To Motivate Kids To Clean Up After Themselves
Do you find yourself constantly picking up after your kids? How can you motivate your children to clean up, become more organized and tidy without nagging, bribes or threats. In today’s an air coaching episode I help Wilde, a mother of three boys, 9 year old twins and a soon-to-be 6 year old to figure out […]
TEARS & CRYING: Why Do Only Humans Cry?
About my guest Prof. Ad Vingerhoets (1953) studied psychology at Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. During his career (with affiliations to Radboud University Nijmegen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Helen Dowling Institute for Biopsychosocial Medicine and the Dutch Health Council, before he returned to Tilburg University), he developed expertise in the areas of (the psychobiology of) […]
Anxiety
About my guest Dr. Tirch is the Founder of The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy, President of The Compassionate Mind Foundation USA, and President-Elect of The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Dr. Tirch has been described as one of the country’s foremost experts on mindfulness and compassion based psychotherapy. He is the author of 6 […]
Boredom
Boredom is an under appreciated emotion. Do you know that boredom is the second most suppressed emotion after anger? There are also 5 types of boredom. When was the last time you felt the discomfort of being bored and what did you do to combat that feeling? How do you feel when your children say […]