What’s the biology behind our child’s tantrums and meltdowns? How do we navigate ‘screen time’? When to give our kids control? Why do we want a guinea pig!?! Accompanied by Maggie’s humor and warm heart, this episode covers a wonderful and wide sample of topics from Maggie’s newly released book, Parental As Anything. Join us for a conversation packed with practical takeaways, stories and encouragement for parents.

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Ep. 50 – Maggie Dent – Parental As Anything

In her newest children’s book, Indigenous author Monique Gray Smith writes, “When we are kind we remember we are all related.” Monique’s celebrated works on Truth and Reconciliation offer a doorway into discovering our shared humanity - and kindness is the key. In this episode, she describes simple everyday ways that kindness unleashes our 'littlest citizens', and us as adults, to talk, listen, trust and love.

Ep. 49 – Monique Gray Smith – When We Are Kind

In this episode of family360, award-winning creator of Easy Daysies, and mom of 3, Elaine Tan Comeau, tells the story of her stroke; how it happened, how she coped and how it changed her perspectives on caring for herself and her ‘running the show,’ at home and at work.

Ep. 48 – Elaine & Ron Comeau – Mommy’s Had A Stroke: When Life Interrupts

Picky eaters. Slow eaters. Messy eaters. Overeaters. With young children, mealtimes can feel more like endurance than enjoyment. Providing a healthy diet is one thing. Getting our kids to eat it is another. In this episode, Dr. Natasha Beck (aka Dr. Organic Mommy) offers 10 creative tips for healthy eating, that you can start implementing right away.

Ep. 47 – Dr. Natasha Beck – 10 Ways To Get Your Child To LOVE Healthy Eating

Ninety percent of our values, attitudes, and beliefs are shaped before we are 7 years old - shaped but not set in stone. Where needed, we can re-parent ourselves and grow ourselves up to be the people and the parents we want to be. In this episode of family360, family therapist David Loyst shares how his childhood shaped his adult perspectives, and how he didn’t recognize this until his own marriage and family were in jeopardy. David describes how we can revisit our childhoods to revitalize our perceptions and our parenting.

Ep. 46 – David Loyst – It’s Never Too Late To Have A Great Childhood

This episode is a popular repeat from season one of family360 and our first interview (of two so far) with Dr. Gordon Neufeld. In this episode, he identifies the six stages of attachment upon which a child builds their ongoing capacity for caring and for relationships. Dr. Neufeld is a world leader in child growth and development and attachment theory. He is also the author of the international best-selling book, Hold Onto Your Kids.

Ep. 45 – Dr. Gordon Neufeld – True Play & The Six Stages Of Attachment

This episode is from our 2019 conversation with Family Therapist Ted Leavitt. Ted describes his adult diagnosis of ADHD as a discovery that changed everything, including his personal perspectives and professional practices. Ted now focuses on removing distinctions between behavior problems and mental health problems, recognizing that children do well if they can, and when they can’t, there is more to explore than them just being ‘naughty, lazy or rude’.

Ep. 44 – Ted Leavitt – ADHD: Now Playing In A Person Near You

In this episode, Australian author, educator and host of ABC’s Parental As Anything podcast Maggie Dent, generously and humorously shares from her 3 decades as a parenting specialist. Maggie specializes in resilience training, particularly in the adolescent and early years. In this episode she explains, “Resilience isn’t a trait we are born with,” so when parents start to embrace adversity as a powerful teacher for their children, disappointments become the road to inner strengths that will sustain their child for the years to come.

Ep. 43 – Maggie Dent – The Road To Resilience

In this episode, physician and author Dr. Bal Pawa is the author of the bestseller, The Mind-Body Cure - how we heal our pain, anxiety, and fatigue by controlling chronic stress. Dr. Pawa describes that when we learn to name, tame and reframe the thoughts in our minds, we gain agency over much of our mental and physical health.

Ep. 42 – Dr. Bal Pawa – Stress: Now Playing In A Person Near You

In this episode, mental health specialist Dr. John Swinton shares from his many years as a psychiatric nurse and advocate for community care and inclusion. He says, “When you spend time with people who see the world differently, you begin to see the world differently,” and until we spend that time, we will continue to struggle with difference and diversity.

Ep. 41 – Dr. John Swinton – Disability And Difference

In this episode, Child Psychologist Dr. Deborah MacNamara unpacks the myriad reasons and motives as to why our kids fight, and has great perspectives to offer. From everyday questions to complex problems, her strategies for making headway with our child or teen is grounded in a rich developmental framework to give constructive hope for parents immersed in their child's sibling conflict.

Ep. 40 – Deborah MacNamara – Sibling Conflict: Why Our Kids Fight

In this episode, adolescent specialist Michelle Mitchell explains why maintaining a solid connection with teens is essential but not easy, especially when they’re grumpy! Through her books and speaking, Michelle Mitchell offers compassion, knowledge, and practical tools for keeping connections and conversations positive and strong between tweens and teens, and the adults who love them. Michelle is an award-winning author and speaker and her resources are used by psychologists, social workers, and parents around the world.

Ep. 39 – Michelle Mitchell – The Grumpy Teen Toolkit

Through her study and work with children in trauma, Dr. Lacy Finn Borgo sees the importance of trusted adults engaging in spiritual conversation with children, and describes BOW (an acronym for Body, Openness and Wonder) that avails children to encounter deeper connection with themselves, others and the natural and supernatural world.

Ep. 38 – Dr. Lacy Finn Borgo – Encounter: Spiritual Conversations With Children

In this episode, author and social justice activist Tim Huff discusses compassion through the lens of his three decades serving the homeless on the streets of Toronto. Tim believes bringing children into conversations on social concern is key to how we develop and build our cultural capacity for compassion. Tim speaks internationally to students and school boards using a program called The Compassion Series.

Ep. 37 – Tim Huff – Cultivating Compassion In Our Kids And Culture

In this episode, neurologic music therapist Allison Davies describes MUSIC as, “the mother tongue of the brain” and an antidote to the bombardment of sensory information flooding our world. This interview is filled with accessible ideas for a practice Allison calls “musical parenting” - using music to ease and support the dysregulation of our children’s brains and bodies.

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