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Understanding the power behind Connected Parenting and the neuro-science of love.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 2 – The CALM Technique
Jennifer explains the most important component of the Connected Parenting method.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 3 – Oxytocin, The Love Drug
Jennifer explains the importance of Limbic bonding and the power of connection.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 4 – Parenting and The Brain
This episode explores interpersonal neurobiology with a fascinating look into what’s happening in your child’s brain when they get upset and how your reactions affect what happens next.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 5 – When Parenting hurts…
Behind every anxious, acting-out child, is a parent who is suffering. This episode explores the very real, and rarely discussed issue of parental frustration and fears. These parents are watching their children’s lives flashing before their eyes. Jennifer offers hope and strategies to deal with this difficult problem.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 6 – Staying Neutral
Want your kids to listen? Then turn down the volume and discover the power of being neutral. Jennifer shares how to respond instead of react to your children.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 7 – King of the Castle
This episode will give you insight into helping your bossy child have successful playdates.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 8 – Bedtime Battles
Episode 8 focusses on bedtime battles, which can be epic! Jennifer will provide inspiration for harmonious bedtimes.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 9 – Video Game and Social Media Battles
This week Jennifer helps parents learn effective ways to limit and regulate their kid’s screen time, social media and gaming.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 10 – Should you get that pet?
Jennifer discusses getting a pet and the lessons of life and love they can bring.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 11 -When you Love your Kid but don’t like them very much
Jennifer discusses the complicated feelings parents can have when their child is difficult, angry, and aggressive and what to do about it.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 12 – How to parent a master procrastinator.
Jennifer discusses what works and what doesn’t with a chronic procrastinator. This episode is focused on older teens and young adults but parents of younger kids should listen in as well to avoid future pitfalls.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 13 – When your child rejects you
Jennifer discusses the painful problem of a child rejecting their parent.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 14 – Back to School. What to Pack in your child’s emotional backpack.
Back to school. How to make the biggest transition of the year smoother and easier.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 15 – – The Opposite of Addiction is Connection!
This episode explores how parental connection can heal, protect and build resilience in your child.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 16 – Vaping!? Not my kid
This episode covers everything you need to know about vaping and how to talk to your teen about it.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 17 – Halloween can be scary
Jennifer shares insight on how to have a successful Halloween experience with your children.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 18 – You’re NOT the worst MOM in the World
Mom’s are so hard on themselves!! This episode explores how important it is so be kind to yourself, how to forgive yourself and why you are not alone.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 19 – Is your child Gifted?
Being gifted is not always a gift. This episode explores the highly complicated emotional needs of the gifted child.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 20 – The Holiday Season
Tis the season to have tantrums… Jennifer prepares you for all highs and lows that come with the holiday season and how to help your kids handle them.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 21- When Siblings Fight
Jennifer helps parents understand why siblings fight, why it is normal and what to do about it.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 22 – The Power of Loving Play
Jennifer shares some creative and playful ideas that strengthen the parent-child bond and build emotional resilience.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 23 – The Truth About Ranting
Ranting: It might feel good in the moment, but venting and ranting may be doing more harm than good.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 24 – When Parents Fight
These are stressful times. Families will be together a lot over the next little while and tension will be running high. It can be a time of coming together and remembering what’s important or it can be a time of arguing and fighting. This episode starts with us… and how to fight, or better yet, not fight in front of the kids.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 25 – Therapeutic Story Telling
In this episode, Jennifer describes a wonderful activity to do with your kids – interactive storytelling. It is a great way to connect with your children, release oxytocin and adrenaline, and work out what may bother them using adventure and imagination. Jennifer recorded this prior to parks being closed in many cities, so keep in mind this will work in your backyard and on a neighborhood walk.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 26 – Quaranteenagers
In this episode, Jennifer helps parents understand what teens are going through and how the current state of the world is affecting them. Learn how to help teens during these unprecedented times.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 27 – One Parent’s Journey With Connected Parenting
Jennifer has a great conversation with Lynda Gourianov a connected parent with a feisty gladiator child. Lynda shares her journey through the ups and downs and way-ups of Connected Parenting.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 28 – Mealtime Battles and Food Fights
Take the fight out of food! In this episode Jennifer Helps parents deal with picky eating and power struggles at the dinner table.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 29 – The Father Effect
Kids do better with strong loving fathers and when fathers use the Connected Parenting method it kicks it up a notch! This episode explores the unique dynamics of fatherhood and how to understand and work with the dynamics of both hard and soft parenting.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 30 – Back to School 2020!
This year it’s back to school like no other year! Jennifer helps you to navigate a start to school in unprecedented times.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 31 – Anxiety…we are all feeling it.
Anxiety is so miserable but it is also manageable. In this episode Jennifer shares essential tips for calming your own fear and anxiety as well as how to model this for your children. Learn how to control anxiety, so it doesn’t control you.
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CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 32 – Let’s Talk… Back to School.
In this Episode, Jennifer talks Back to School again, this time with special Guest Natalie Syrmopoulos from Evolving with Natalie. Jennifer and Natalie are both parents and they discuss the unique challenges that parents face this school year.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 33 – Healthy Adversity
In this episode, Jennifer talks about how important it is to let kids experience healthy adversity. Challenges, mistakes, and failures are critical to learning, good mental health, and emotional resilience. Learn how to help your children benefit from life’s contrasts and bumps and how to stay calm while you do.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 34 – What a Shame about Shame!
In this episode, Jennifer talks about how important it is to let kids experience healthy adversity. Challenges, mistakes, and failures are critical to learning, good mental health, and emotional resilience. Learn how to help your children benefit from life’s contrasts and bumps and how to stay calm while you do.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 35 – Halloween… A Scary Time for Parents!
Halloween can be such a fun time for kids…candy, costumes and decorations! However, for many of our kids Halloween can mean anxiety and behavioural issues! This can make it a scary time for parents! In this episode Jennifer shares how to combat the halloween fears and the bedtime scares, and keep you and your kids CALM this Halloween!
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 36 – The Art of Staying Neutral
In this episode, Jennifer discusses the art of being neutral, one of the most important pillars in the Connected Parenting method. Although it may sound simple, it is often the hardest thing to do. People often have different ideas of what being neutral actually means. Jennifer discusses the nuances and delivers practical and meaningful strategies to help you stay neutral and stay calm.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 37 – When Nice is… Not So Nice
In this episode, Jennifer talks about the downside of being nice and how being nice can be toxic. There is a big difference between being nice and being kind. Discover the difference and learn why being kind is always the better choice.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 38 – Stand-Up vs. Lie Down Parenting
In this episode, Jennifer discusses the difference between parenting 100% in the present and parenting only halfway, and how different parenting styles affect your kids.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 39 – When Parents Polarize
In this episode, Jennifer explores why couples work against each other, how to stop it, and how to harmonize.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 40 – External Screens vs. Internal Screens
External screens vs our internal screens. Jennifer talks about the importance of learning to control our mental screens, what we think about and how to help our children master this important skill.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 41 – Big Hurts and Little Hurts
If 2020 taught us anything it’s that we have to help our kids deal with change and disappointment. In this episode Jennifer talks about how to help your kids manage big hurts and little hurts. Listen to find out how to help your kids develop the emotional shock absorbers needed to handle anything.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 42 – How to Help Through Heartbreak
In this episode Jennifer shares how to help your teens with heart break. It is so hard to watch your child suffer and at times hurts us more than them, but there is much to learn as kids practice life and learn how to grow and thrive through whatever life throws at them. This episode will cover the what to do and what not to do to help your kids heal.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 43 – From Worriers to Warriors
In this episode Jennifer shares practical tips that really work to help you teach your child to go from a worrier to a warrior.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 44 – The Kids Aren’t Alright
The pandemic is taking its toll on children’s mental health. Many kids are struggling and parents are struggling with knowing how to help them. In this episode, Jennifer gives parents some important tips on how to soothe and comfort your kids while building your emotional resilience during these trying times.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 45 – The Importance of Self Parenting
In this episode, Jennifer talks about the importance of self-parenting and how to parent yourself from a place of kindness and compassion. As parents, we are the architects of our children’s brains, and our parents were the architects of ours. In truth, we are all walking around as adults with programming that was installed before we were seven years old. Self-compassion and loving self-parenting are critical to good mental health and help us be better parents to our children.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 46 – WTF To Do When Your Kids Are Swearing
In this episode, Jennifer tackles swearing; Why kids do it… How to understand it and how to redirect it.
CONNECTED PARENTING EPISODE 47
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