Dr Will Dobud’s book, “Kids These Days”, shines the light on how the emphasis on youth mental health has paradoxically resulted in more pathologizing, more labelling, more medication and more institutionalizing of young people – all while rates of youth mental health skyrocket. Something is not right. He argues that our systems don’t support human flourishing and in fact create harm in youth. Dr Will is an advocate for co-adventure therapy and other forms of building egalitarian and respectful relationships with youth that allow them to be the hero of their journey and to face and overcome the hurdles of life through micro-adventuring.

The book:

www.kidsthesedaysbook.com

His website:

www.willdobud.com

Follow Will Dobud on social media:

FB: https://www.facebook.com/WillDobudPhD

Instagram: @WillDobud

Instagram: @Kids_These_Days_Book

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-dobud-5209ab74

X: @WillDobud

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Q1. How hard can I push my kiddo to go back to camp?

Q2. 17yr old wants to spend most of her savings on a bday gift for her new boyfriend

Q3. 3yr old doesn’t play with other kids at daycare. Is he lonely?

Q4. How to start family meetings with a 3 and a 4yr old?

(You can find my Family Meeting Playlist on YouTube Here.

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Sophia Galano has been providing therapy to teens and their families since 2015. In this episode, we discussed her book “Calming Teenage Anxiety: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Your Teenager Cope with Worry”. Sophia helps unpack the Gen Z anxiety effect, and how parents can find the messy middle between supporting but not enabling their anxious teen. Sophia is a big believer in helping youth develop skills and abilities to manage their emotions and to discover and challenge their thinking traps. Check out the podcast to get more of her useful tools.

You can find Sophia on social media here:

https://www.instagram.com/sophiavale_galano/

And purchase her book here:

Calming Teenage Anxiety: A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Teenager Cope with Worry."

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We assume when our teens start dating, they are going to pick good partners and be in good relationships, but wow – sometimes that is not the case! In this eye-opening conversation with the leading research experts from the University of Calgary who have developed an education texting-based tool for parents, we talk about the definition of relationship violence, the role of parents as a protective factor and how their text-based app solved the hurdle of parents not feeling adequately prepared to have these conversations about healthy vs unhealthy relationships.

You can find them here:

Instagram: @connected_parents_canada

LinkedIn: ConnectED Parents

Website: https://preventdomesticviolence.ca/our-work/children-youth-parents/connected-parents-project/

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Marjie Longshore and Paige Trevor are seasoned parent educators. Part of their curriculum is teaching the importance of holding regular family meetings. They also recognize that while parents are keen on the idea of family meetings, they also tend to give up quickly on this importance practice, for a variety of reasons. With research into the problems of consistency and compliance, and the ingenuity to solve for it, Marjie created the Family Meeting Kit as well as an online community platform to help support parents. We discuss all the benefits she has to offer families with these new creations and why they work.

Family Leadership Center https://www.familyleadershipcenter.org

Podcast: The Family Leadership Center Podcast: Circle In with co-hosts Marjie and Paige

Join our Online Circle In Community: circlein.circle.so

Visit our website at www.circlein.org

IG: @circlein.familymeetingkit and @familyleadershipctr

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Ted Page is on a journey to discover how to be a wonderful grandparent and help his grandchildren become The New Greatest Generation. We discuss some of the insights he learned after interviewing grandfathers from diverse backgrounds – everyone from John Cleese and Tom Brokaw, to veterans, rabbis, Imams and grandpas across cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. He heard and recorded their stories, capturing and distilling their wisdom to convey what our children (and all of us!) can learn from.

You can purchase Ted’s book, “Good Grandpa – Stories from The Heart of Grandfatherhood” here

Check out his blog for ongoing stories and to reach out to Ted with your own stories:

www.goodgrandpa.com

Follow Ted on social media:

IG at @GoodGrandpaBlog

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ted.page.923

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Q1. 13yr old son doesn’t open up and share his feelings anymore.

Q2. Divorcing parents looking for best shared custody plan for kids.

Q3. How to wean a 3yr old off his pacifier.

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Master Celtic fiddler from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Natalie MacMaster, has received the Order of Canada and played with such greats as Yo-Yo Ma, Alison Krauss, The Boston Pops, The Chieftains and many more. Her rise to fame happened while she was navigating both a demanding career of a musician performing on the road and raising 7 children. If anyone knows about balance of career and family, it’s Natalie! Tune in to this episode as she shares her journey and how she manages to keep it all together!

Purchase Natalie’s Book book: “I Have a Love Story” here.

Follow Natalie on social media:

IG: @nataliemacmasterofficial

FB: https://www.facebook.com/nataliemacmaster/

Website: https://natalieanddonnell.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macmasterleahy

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