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: 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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Listener Question: Raising Boys in a Gay Househ...
Listener Question: Raising Boys in a Gay Household. Two dads are looking to adopt sons and have questions about how raising their sons in a Gay Household.
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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: Parental Social Media Use a...
Listener Questions: Parental Social Media Use and the Boy who Reads too Much. A parent writes in wondering about the impact parental use of social media can have on kids and a mom is concerned that her son might be reading too much.
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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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Listener Question: The Disposable Boy
Are boys growing up in a world that sees them as disposable? What does it mean for a boy’s purpose to be rooted in sacrifice? Are disposable and sacrifice the same thing? How do we raise our sons with purpose?
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Listener Question: The Child Who Talks Too Much
Listener Question: The Child Who Talks Too Much. Michael and Tim answer a question from a mom concerned about her overly talkative child who seems to be disrupting the class.
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Father’s Day Special
Father’s Day Special. Michael and Tim talk about their dads and about their lives as dads with an emphasis on what makes dads special.
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Mother’s Day Edition
Mother’s Day Edition. Michael and Tim share stories about their moms and look at the gifts moms bring the parenting.
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Boys, Boy Behavior, and Preschool
Listener Question: Boys, Boy Behavior, and Preschool. The listener shares that her 2 year old son has been getting in trouble for acting like a boy at his day care. Michael looks at both preschool systems and families systems, along with developmental and
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Strategies for Navigating our Kids through the ...
Strategies for Navigating our Kids through the #MeToo World: Tim and Michael look at the power of rites of passage for empowering our sons and daughters to be wise, healthy, thriving adults.
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Boys, Girls, and Sex in a #MeToo World
Boys, Girls, and Sex in a #MeToo World. Tim chats with Michael about consent, sex, and how a boy’s body works sexually vs how a girl’s body works sexually and what that means for navigating sexual relationships.
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Empowering Daughters in a #MeToo World
Empowering Daughters in a #MeToo World. Michael and Tim look at ways to empower our daughters to thrive in relationships.
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Helping Boys Thrive in a #MeToo World
Helping Boys Thrive in a #MeToo World. Tim talks with Michael about the often unseen challenges boys face and how some now label all masculinity as toxic. Michael gives an overview of why Helping Boys Thrive is important for our boys, our girls, our fam
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Listener Question: Toddlers and Tantrums
Listener Question: Toddlers and Tantrums. A listener voices concern about the way her toddler son throws his tantrums. Tim chats with Michael about why tantrums happen and how we should respond in the home and in public.
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Raising Kids in a Gender-Fluid World
Raising Kids in a Gender-Fluid World. What does it mean to raise sons and daughters under an ideology that says there is no male or female? Michael and Tim tackle that issue from a brain-science and practical perspective.
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Listener Question: Gross Boy Behavior?
Listener Question: Gross Boy Behavior? A listener sends in a story about her son that caused her and her husband a lot of anxiety. Listen in to Michael’s and Tim’s answer, and learn the brain-science behind boys and farting!
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Raising Boys in a Kryptonite World, Part 2: Boy...
Raising Boys in a Kryptonite World, Part 2: Boys and their Emotions. Michael Gurian and Tim Wright look at your son’s brain, how it’s wired to emote, and how you can help him emote in healthy, masculine ways.
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Raising HEROIC Boys in a Kryptonite World—Part 1
Raising HEROIC Boys in a Kryptonite World—Part 1: Boys and Schools. Boys are systematically falling behind girls in every area of school from Pre-K through Graduate School. Michael and Tim look at some practical, brain-based strategies for helping you
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Video Games and Your Child’s Brain
Video Games and Your Child’s Brain: Michael and Tim look at the impact of video games on your kids—especially your sons.
29 min