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Topics Covered in this Office Hours: 

  • How to talk to your child about your experience being abused as a child (physical/sexual) and discuss the family dynamics and expectations of your children engaging with those family members that abused you (00:05:18)
  • Supporting your child (6 year old) with picky eating habits, including at other people's houses for meals (00:13:15)
  • Looking under the iceberg- unmet needs when our child seems to be "pushing our buttons on purpose". Getting preteens/older kids laughing. Roughhousing ideas. (00:27:49)
  • When is it time to get professional support for my ADHD child? Emotion coaching your highly sensitive/ADHD child through disappointment with friends (00:44:47)
  • Supporting high functioning autistic, 4 year old with at-home-therapies (as the parent) during transition with relocation and break in external professional support (00:54:08)
  • How to tell an older child that their father is not their biological father, but that he adopted her and that she can't contact her biological father due to court decisions. (00:59:24)
  • Supporting your 6 year old with sibling rivalry, big emotions, and feeling unconditionally loved by using special time and connection tools (01:12:05)
  • Connecting, and emotion coaching your older child (8 year old) after the birth of a sibling when you're still caring for a newborn and too tired to play (01:21:47)