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Craig Knippenberg, expert, and best-selling author, shares strategies for actual (imperfect) parents to build resilient kids and families with good-enough parenting so that you can have less stress and find joy in your kids and family. Discover how your child’s brain works, their social and emotional needs and learn to implement the right parenting techniques that work for you and your family, and finally ditch the parenting guilt and stress. For 35 years, Craig has been supporting parents, kids, and families as a mental health professional and raising his own resilient family. He shares his years of experience with listeners. You’ll learn how to identify a child’s strengths and build confidence and overcome challenges that today’s families experience. Craig’s approach to parenting is clear, concise, and actionable. You’ll learn how to set limits on technology without a fight, how to talk to your child so they listen, how to solve parenting differences with your partner, how to handle teen rebellion and keep your sanity, so that you can build a lasting and meaningful relationship with your child. This podcast is a mix of interviews, special co-hosts offering unique perspectives mixed with the latest research on parenting issues that matter. Hit subscribe and get ready to discover stress-free parenting.
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Send us a text Craig Knippenberg, LCSW, M.Div draws on his own personal experience of divorce as well as helping countless families navigate this emotional time. Craig shares tips for protecting your mental health as a parent and helping your child through the process.
Send us a text Craig shares his thoughts from news stories focused on competitive youth sports and the risk of emotionally or sexual abuse to our kids.
Send us a text About Dr. HellersteinA pioneer in vision therapy and developmental optometry, for more than 30 years Dr. Hellerstein, has helped thousands of children and adults improve their vision and transform their lives — at home, in the classroom, and most recently on the playing field. Her breakthrough methods unlock barriers to learning and “rewire” around brain injuries, and vision perception or processing deficits. But you don’t have to have a vision problem to benefit: her brain tra...
Send us a text Join Craig for this in depth conversation about how parents and adults can best handle their own big emotions. Craig takes a deep dive in to strategies that can be applied in simple and effective ways.
Send us a text Get the latest on parenting topics as seen in the news. Relevant topics to our viewers.
Send us a text Tips and strategies for parents who are either experiencing ADHD or partner to someone who experiences ADHD.
Send us a text Craig Knippenberg delivers important parenting topics in the news from late summer 2022. Topics include: Empathy, Social Media, Back to school, and early childhood development.
Send us a text Join Craig Knippenberg, LCSW, M.Div, and Tiffany Feingold, co-founder of Guiding Bright Minds, an online community with the purpose of joining families, organizations and support services for neurodiverse children. Tiffany shares her own experience as she navigated her own challenges and found refuge in this community.
Send us a text Join Craig Knippenberg, LCSW, M.Div and Michelle DeNoy, LCSW who discusses what self-care is and isn't and how to know what your body, specifically nervous system, is telling you. Michelle gives her own examples and challenges as a mom to two young kids, in her own exploration of self-care.
Send us a text Crying. Are there benefits? How does crying effect us from a biological level. And does culture play a part? Craig Knippenberg, LCSW, M.Div looks a a recent article posted in the Wall Street Journal that examines crying. Craig take a deep dive and looks at how biology and culture influence our response to crying and we discover why we shouldn't overlook the benefits of a good cry!
Send us a text Craig Knippenberg gives listeners a run down of important parenting topics that are making the news. Listen as Craig addresses faith as trust, not beliefs and how this relates to parenting. The story of a mom who sued Facebook over her daughters social media use. And six tips, from 70 parents who raised highly successful kids!
Send us a text Craig Knippenberg is joined by a special guest, Mary Walker. Mary Walker, founder of A Little Love and Smiles, which targets tweens and teens which helps recognize warning signs of mental distress before a mental health crisis and how to take care of ones mental health. Mary shares her exerperience as high schooler during COVID and how it effected her mental health. She also shares her journey to understanding and taking care of herself as she navigated variou...
Send us a text What's the recipe for summer fun with kids and also preserving your sanity? Craig share his best tips for creating a memorable summer by instilling structure, free-play and adventures!
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Send us a text Join Craig Knippenberg, LCSW, M.Div and Dr. Kathleen Robinson, Psy.D in this informative discussion about self-harm, cutting. Dr. Robinson is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in treating adolescents and adults struggling with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, trauma, self-injury, panic and identity development issues. She also has long-term experience in the areas of personality disorders, relationship difficulties, anger management and life transitions.
Send us a text Join Craig as he explores TikTok! In this experiment, Craig lets TikTok be the guide during this journey into the TikTok Algorithm!
Send us a text In this "don't miss" episode Craig updates listeners on news parents can use as it pertains to kids and parenting!
Send us a text Do you huddle or helicopter when it comes to managing devices and social media for your kids? Our special guest, Laura Tierney, founder of The Social Institute shares why and how we must empower our children to navigate a digital social world! Laura Tierney, founder of The Social Institute, a social media expert who previously manage social media for ESPN, Nike, Disney, P & G, and Duke Men's Basketball. The Social Institute provides a gamified, online lea...
Send us a text Craig continues the discussion on eating disorders and looks at the dark side of social influence on our kids and how this directly relates to disordered eating. Craig shares shocking statistics which reveal why social influences can have such a dramatic impact on our youth. He also has a very special guest join his show for Things Of Beauty Make Me Cry. This is one you won't want to miss. Be sure to get the Kleenex ready!
Send us a text Eating Disorders have dangerous and lasting effects on not only the physical body but our mental health. Craig explores how pop culture can have devastating results when it comes to our children and the influences of pop culture. In today's episode Craig gives a general understanding of eating disorders, the teen brain and how eating disorders can impact their brain. He also discusses support and effective treatments. Part 2 will explore how social me...
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