Motherhood Meets Medicine Lynzy Coughlin

The benefits of attachment parenting cannot be overstated. Securely attached kids are more confident, connected and more prepared to enter the world. They also tend to experience fewer health problems.

But why? 

Here to share more about the science behind attachment parenting and how we can raise confident connected children is Eli Harwood.

Eli is a licensed therapist who lives in Colorado with her husband and three children. She's an expert on attachment theory and the author of Raising Securely Attached Kids, which will be available September 2024. She also loves playing dress up with her kids, obsessing about sourdough starter. And reminiscing about that one time, she won a set of globes as a Price Is Right contestant.

The good news is that even if you haven’t been parenting in a way that promotes attachment up to now, this process is flexible and ever changing. The best time to start is right now. Listen in to hear all of Eli’s tips and tricks no matter the age of your children. 

In this episode, we discuss: 

What securely attached parenting is.
How it benefits children throughout their lives.
How you can cultivate it in your own home.
We touch on highly sensitive children, how you can connect with them and help them to feel more seen and secure.

Resources:

Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience By Eli Harwood
https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Securely-Attached-Kids-Connection-Focused/dp/B0CPDP7DT5

Connect with Eli:

Attachment Nerd -https://attachmentnerd.com/about
Instagram -https://www.instagram.com/attachmentnerd/
YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWUY-2dpPEbeetSUhT2q-7Q
LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-harwood-b3b9495/

Questions: 

What is securely attached parenting?
How is secure attachment parenting different from William Sears’ attachment parenting?
What are common life events that test the bond between kids and parents, and how can they be overcome?
How can you restore the bond with your kid if it has been broken?
Is it ever too late to switch to a secure attachment parenting style?


Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The information on this podcast is for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. 
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Trying to navigate the world of learning disabilities with your children and just getting more and more confused? Trust me, I know. I’ve been there. Which is why I keep bringing in the experts to provide you ways to understand learning disabilities in the classroom. 

Something I just learned was that a lot of the terms that educators have started to use aren’t even true medical diagnoses recognized by medical professionals. Crazy!

Here to share more about learning disabilities is Katie Davis. She is a Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University and a clinical Neuropsychologist in New York City. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of learning and attention disorders. Katie is an expert in statistics and her research focuses on helping clinicians and educators apply statistical rigor to their data analysis.

Listen in to learn more about the most often diagnosed disorders, what the terms actually mean, and how to talk to your kids about their learning disabilities. Katie also shares her thoughts on how to get the best support for your children within their school system.

In this episode, we discuss: 

What the terms Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia mean.
How they are different from learning disorders in Reading, Writing and Math.
When diagnostic labels are useful and not useful.
How to talk to your child about their learning disorder.

Resources:

Connect with Katie:
Dr. Katie Davis -http://Drkatiedavis.com
TeenSights -Katiesd.substack.com
Instagram -https://www.instagram.com/drkatiesdavis/

Questions: 
What do the terms dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia mean, and how are they different from learning disorders in reading, writing, and math?
What are the differences between a diagnosis, a disability, and a school classification?
What do we mean when we say “processing”?
When are diagnostic labels useful and not useful?
What labels do professionals commonly use that aren’t official diagnoses, and what is the utility (or lack thereof) of those labels?

Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The information on this podcast is for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. 
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Access to sexual education for our youth is unbelievably important both from a health standpoint and from an education standpoint. But so many schools these days have sex education as optional and many don’t even require the curriculum to be medically accurate. 
That’s why I’m so excited to talk with Tara Jones all about how she’s helping to change the landscape of sexual education. 

Tara is a black queer sex educator based in Philadelphia and New York. For the last five years that work has consisted of creating sex education, social media content aimed at young adults, writing for various publications and speaking at events. She is also the founder of the Youth Sexpert Program, a digital training program that aims to provide comprehensive sex education for high school enrolled youth. 

Listen in to hear her thoughts on why educating tweens and teens and creating peer advocates is so much more effective than traditional sex education and how she’s affecting this change now. 


In this episode, we discuss: 
The importance of access to sexual education for kids.
Why Tara created the Youth Sexpert Program and what it entails.
The barriers that exist when it comes to accessing sex education.


Resources:

The Youth Sexpert Program -http://www.theyouthsexpertprogram.org

Instagram -http://www.instagram.com/theyouths3xpertprogram

The Importance of Comprehensive Sex Education -https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/adolescent-sexual-health/equitable-access-to-sexual-and-reproductive-health-care-for-all-youth/the-importance-of-access-to-comprehensive-sex-education/

Sex Positive Families -https://sexpositivefamilies.com/

Good Sex Illustrated -https://amzn.to/4aVxib3

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life -https://amzn.to/4ca2YKR

Right to Sex-https://amzn.to/4bMAR4L



Questions: 
How did The Youth Sexpert Program come to be?
How was The Youth Sexpert Program's curriculum built and what does it contain?
What have your observations been regarding how students approach talking about sex?
What have your observations been regarding conversations between youth and parents about sex?



Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The information on this podcast is for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. 
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It is not productive to think negatively of our children's teenage years. Instead we need to find ways to embrace this time period and support the changes they’re experiencing while giving them room to grow, learn, and fail with us. 
But it seems like all the literature out there is designed to scare and dishearten parents as their children reach these later years. What should we be reading? 
Thankfully, Ellen Galinsky decided it was time to share the positive side of parenting teenagers. 
Ellen is President of Families and Work Institute, elected President of the Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN), and senior research advisor to AASA, the School Superintendent Organization. Previous jobs include Chief Science Officer at the Bezos Family Foundation and faculty at Bank Street College. Her life’s work revolves around identifying important societal questions, conducting research to seek answers, and turning the findings into action. 
Her research is focused on work-life, children’s development, youth voice, child-care, parent-professional relationship, and parental development. She’s the author of the best-selling Mind in the Making and The Breakthrough Years. She’s also authored 90 books/reports and 360 articles. Career highlights include serving as President of NAEYC, a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, a parent expert on the Mister Rogers Talks with Parents TV series, receiving a Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College and the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from WFRN.
Listen as Ellen shares more about the research she’s done and how we as parents can lean into the teenage years in such a way that provides our children with opportunities to practice autonomy and self-determination. 
In this episode, we discuss: 
What teens want most from us as parents.
Ways to give teens autonomy support.
What shared solutions are and how we can use them to help our teens build their executive function.
The five basic needs teenagers have.
Resources:
Message 1
Understanding Adolescent Development -https://ellengalinsky.substack.com/p/understanding-adolescent-development
Message 2
Talk With, Not At Teens -https://ellengalinsky.substack.com/p/talk-with-not-at-teens
Listening is Where Love Begins -https://ellengalinsky.substack.com/p/listening-is-where-love-begins
A Skill-Building Approach: Don’t Hold the Leash Too Tight-https://ellengalinsky.substack.com/p/a-skill-building-approach-dont-hold
Shared Solutions: An Autonomy Supportive Approach -https://ellengalinsky.substack.com/p/shared-solutions-an-autonomy-supportive
Introducing a Possibilities Mindset -https://ellengalinsky.substack.com/p/introducing-a-possibilities-mindset
Message 3
The Power of Positive Risk Taking -https://ellengalinsky.substack.com/p/the-power-of-positive-risk-taking
Beyond Queen Bees, Wannabees, Masterminds, and Wingmen -https://ellengalinsky.substack.com/p/beyond-queen-bees-wanabees-masterminds
Age Discrimination Hidden in Plain Sight -https://ellengalinsky.substack.com/p/age-discriminationhidden-in-plain
Understanding Adolescent Development -https://ellengalinsky.substack.com/p/understanding-adolescent-development
Questions: 
What do teens most want from their parents?
What are teenagers' 5 basic needs?
What are shared solutions? How can these help our teens with executive function?
How to support our kids with risk taking?
Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The information on this podcast is for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. 
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If there was a program out there that could help you plan your weekly meals, come up with fun activities for your kids, give you gift and party ideas and so much more… would you use it? 
Fun fact, this does exist! It’s called AI and tools like Chat GPT and Gemini are an amazing way to take off some of the mental load and stress of making day to day decisions. Here to share more is Michelle Tangeman. 
Before opening Michelle Tangeman Behavioral Health as a child and family therapist, Michelle served as a Clinical Manager for STAR of CA, where she oversaw a clinical team providing children's behavioral treatment programs. Michelle has extensive experience and individualized behavior intervention, functional behavior assessments, school based services, family focused intervention, Early Start services and social skills training, and has provided these services to families across Ventura, and Los Angeles counties. She has also completed the training as part of the Postpartum Support internationals advanced perinatal mental health psychotherapy training program. 
When she's not helping parents and families as a therapist. She is a mother of two beautiful children. As a parent, she knows how challenging it can be combining her personal experience as a parent. Along with her behavioral health background, she launched her online education company thriving toddler through thriving toddler courses and free resources. She aims to help as many people as possible become the parents they want to be. Michelle is also a podcast host and the Co-Founder of the Parenting Understood Podcast. Michelle and her co host are passionate about teaching parents about evidence based interventions grounded in science to make a positive impact on the parent child relationship.
I know that we can all use more time in our day. Using AI to help take some of the mental load off our plates can definitely change the way we tackle all the responsibilities of life and parenting for the better. 
In this episode, we discuss: 
Ways to use AI assisted tools like Gemini or Chat gpt in your daily parenting.
Which prompts make your life as a parent a little easier.
Resources:
Badass Matriarch-https://lynzyandco.substack.com/
Connect with Michelle:
Michelle Tangeman -https://michelletangeman.com/
Pocket Parent Membership
https://www.thrivingtoddler.com/pocketparent
Toddler Tantrum Master Class -https://www.thrivingtoddler.com/
Questions: 
What exactly is executive functioning?
How can parents promote executive functioning skills in toddlers?
What is toxic stress and how does that play into brain development and child development outcomes?
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Media addiction among children is a huge problem. We know this and you know that I’ve been talking about it for a while. Thankfully there is a movement out there working to make changes at the policy level. 
Enter MAMA - Mothers Against Media Addiction, founded by Julie Scelfo.
Julie is a former New York Times journalist, Media Ecologist and founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction, otherwise known as MAMA, a grassroots movement of parents fighting back against media addiction to create a world where real life experiences remain at the heart of childhood. 
She is also a mother of three, and her years of reporting on the issue of phones and social media exposed her to the epidemic of youth mental illness, including increased suicide rates among teens and tweens, and the crisis that media addiction and unchecked Tech was causing. This led her to recognize the need for a movement of parents and allies focused on addressing the crisis of media addiction among our children.
Listen as we talk about everything from appropriate ages to introduce phones as well as what you can do at the local level to start enacting change and how MAMA can help. 
In this episode, we discuss: 
What inspired Julie to found Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA).
What their goals are.
How parents can get more involved on a community and national level.
How to handle phones and social media under your own roof.
Resources:
Badass Matriarch-https://lynzyandco.substack.com/
Mothers Against Media Addiction -https://www.joinmama.org/
NY Times - Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfectionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html
HuffPost - How To Prevent Suicide Among Tweenshttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/suicide-prevention-teens-tweens_n_5f764841c5b6374c558b68ca
NY Post – Opinion: Violence, bullying, suicide: It’s time to fight digital addiction in kids like drunk drivinghttps://nypost.com/2024/03/30/opinion/violence-bullying-suicide-we-must-fight-digital-addiction-in-kids-like-drunk-driving/
SF Chronicle – Opinion: The surgeon general warns that social media is dangerous for kids. Why aren’t medical professional associations?https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/social-media-teens-surgeon-general-18115800.php
Questions: 
What inspired you to found Mothers Against Media Addiction?
How are we as a society misunderstanding social media and smartphones?
One of MAMA's main goals is phone-free schools. Can you speak about why that is such an important policy for you and do you find teachers, parents and students receptive to that proposal?
Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The information on this podcast is for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. 
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