Wonder of Parenting - A Brain-Science...
Wouldn’t it be great if your child came with an owner’s manual? A how-to book on how to raise your child? And if your child came with such a manual, wouldn’t it be helpful to have someone walk you through it, making that owner’s manual come alive? Michael Gurian and Tim Wright serve as your guides through what they believe is the owner’s manual for your child: Your child’s brain. While the brain doesn’t tell the whole story, it does offer a treasure trove of insights into your son or daughter. Michael and Tim each have over 30 years of experience using brain science research, best-practices, and their own experiences as dads in helping parents read, understand, and implement the gift of your child’s brain, the built-in how-to manual that will help you enjoy the wonder of parenting.
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Listener Question: How Do I Talk about Death an...
Listener Question: How Do I Talk about Death and Dying to my Kids? Covid has brought a lot of death talk into our homes. This mom asks how she can talk about dying and death with her four year old.
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Listener Question—To Preschool or Not to Preschool
Listener Question—To Preschool or Not to Preschool. A mom asks about when to start a child in preschool, what to look for in a preschool, and specifically asks about language immersion preschools.
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Listener Question—The Sleepwalking Daughter
Listener Question—The Sleepwalking Daughter. A 7 year old girl has issues falling to sleep.
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2nd Anniversary Gurian on the Hot Seat
As the Podcast celebrates its second anniversary Tim gives Michael the chance to share his heart for raising boys and girls.
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Listener Question—The Pessimistic Child
Listener Question—The Pessimistic Child. A mom writes in wondering how to help her son who wrestles with pessimism.
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Listener’s Questions—Boys and Hitting
Listener’s Questions—Boys and Hitting. Two moms write in about challenges around their young boys and hitting.
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Listener Question—The Boy with Fetal Alcohol Sy...
Listener Question—The Boy with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. As the Wonder of Parenting Podcast celebrates its 100th podcast, Tim and Michael look at the question fostering an 11 year old boy with FAS.
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Listener Question—How do I Get My Son’s Attention
Listener Question—How do I Get My Son’s Attention. A mom writes in about her overly rambunctious boy and his overly rambunctious friendship with another overly rambunctious boy.
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Racism and Your Child
Racism and Your Child. Tim asks Michael for advice on how to talk with our children about the images they are seeing on TV around racism. (End at 21:12 or so where Michael says…solved at a community level)
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Listener Question: When Daddy Comes Home From D...
Listener Question: When Daddy Comes Home From Deployment. Mom asks how to help her daughter transition to dad’s return from Iraq after being gone for a year.
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Education, Your Child, and the New Normal
Education, Your Child, and the New Normal. Michael and Tim look at the disruption of Covid 19 and how to navigate the education of our kids through it.
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Listener Question: My Niece is a Handful
Listener Question: My Niece is a Handful. An Aunt writes in about behaviors she’s concerned about in her young niece.
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Special: How to Keep Your Kids Brains Engaged w...
Special: How to Keep Your Kids Brains Engaged while Sheltered in Home Michael and Tim discuss healthy brain habits for kids while sheltered in home.
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Special: How to Keep Parents Sane while Shelter...
Special: How to Keep Parents Sane while Sheltered in Home Tim asks Michael for practical ideas on how to keep sane as adults, as parents, and as couples.
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Listener Question: What Do I Tell My Son about ...
Listener Question: What Do I Tell My Son about His Dad? A single mom asks this question as she anticipates her son, whose biological dad is not and has never been in the picture, asking it of her one day.
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Special Edition: Talking to Your Kids About the...
Special Edition: Talking to Your Kids About the Coronavirus. Tim asks Michael about how we can help our kids navigate this pandemic.
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Helping Boys Thrive
Helping Boys Thrive. While lots of attention and resources are directed to helping out girls thrive, our boys are greatly underserved. Michael and Tim talk about the challenges our boys face and a way to rally local communities to address the issues of bo
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Listener Question: My Brain Made Me Do It!
Listener Question: My Brain Made Me Do It! A 3 year old is wrestling with impulse control and blames his brain. Michael and Tim dig into the brain science to talk about how to help our kids manage their impulses as they grow into adults.
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Listener Question: The Best School for Boys
Listener Question: The Best School for Boys. An expectant mom is already thinking about the best school for her soon to be born son.
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Listener Question: Boy, Girls, and Pornography
Listener Question: Boy, Girls, and Pornography. Michael and Tim look at the effects of pornography on a boy’s brain and the legal issues surrounding online porn when it comes to our boys and girls
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Listeners Questions: The Three Year Old Wreckin...
Listeners Questions: The Three Year Old Wrecking Ball and the “Color Blind” Grandson. These two questions focus on harnessing the energy of boys, one with lots of physical energy, the other with energy expressed through humor.
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Listener Questions: Empowering a Daughter and T...
Listener Questions: Empowering a Daughter and The Independent Preschooler. The first question deals with a young daughter who doesn’t seem to stand up for herself with her friends. The second question is about a very independent Preschooler who struggle
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Listener Questions: The Teen who Won’t Study an...
Listener Questions: The Teen who Won’t Study and Language Immersion. Michael and Tim respond to the family who are struggling to get their teen son to study and to the mom who’s wondering about immersing her young son in French.
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Listener Questions: Stapled fingers and rough w...
Listeners Questions: Michael and Tim answer two questions; the first from a mom whose son staples his finger and the second about a son who is rough with his cat.
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Listener Question: The Smart but Challenging Fo...
Listener Question: The Smart but Challenging Four Year Old. A single mom writes about her very smart 4 year old who is having troubles transitioning to school.
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