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**Moms of Tweens and Teens**

The Moms of Tweens and Teens podcast offers encouragement, expert advice, and equips moms with a deeper understanding of the unique needs of their tween or teen and how to meet them where they’re at and support them to thrive. Sheryl Gould is the Founder of Moms of Tweens and Teens, a nationally recognized Parenting Educator, Speaker, and Author of “SOS: The Technology Guidebook for Parents of Tweens and Teens, Get The Answers You Need, Keep Them Safe and Enjoy Your Kids Again” and the forthcoming book, “You’re Not Crazy, You’re Not A Bad Parent, And No Your Adolescent Doesn’t Really Hate You.”

Latest Episodes:

What It's Like When Mom Has ADHD / Interview with Katy Weber Aug 09, 2022

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What is life like for women who get diagnosed as adults? How does a diagnosis affect your children and family? What is it like when both mom and child have ADHD?

Katy Weber is an ADHD coach, author, speaker, and founder of Women & ADHD, LLC. She is an outspoken advocate for neurodiverse women, and the host of the weekly Women & ADHD podcast, currently ranked among the top 1% of all podcasts globally.

What you will learn:

The shame comes from living with ADHD but being undiagnosed.
Why do so many adults don't bother to get tested for ADHD?
How an ADHD diagnosis can change the way you're parenting.
What Neurodivergent means.
The best thing you can do for a child with ADHD.
How to be a parent with ADHD.
Learn to embrace the superpower element of ADHD.

Where to find Katy:

Website: www.womenandadhd.com

Online community: www.womenandadhd.mn.co

Instagram: @katyweber.adhd and @womenandadhdpodcast

Twitter: @womenandadhd

TikTok: @womenandadhdpodcast

Facebook: Women & ADHD and Katy Weber ADHD

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Sheryl also has an Inner Circle weekly Parenting Program with a community of like-minded moms, personal coaching, and tons of resources to equip and support you to love well, navigate the challenges and meet your tween and teen’s unique needs during these pivotal years.

Healing Our Emotional Wounds To Become A Better Parent / Interview with Elise Knox Aug 02, 2022

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Elise Knox is a former middle school teacher turned life and wellness coach. Mama to 2 and step-mom to 1, her passion is helping moms and preteen/teen girls get through challenging times with more connection and ease.

Elise is a Certified Trauma-Informed Life Coach. She knows that if we do not heal our own wounds, we bring them into our parenting as a means of protection.

You’re gonna love our conversation today!

What you will learn:

How do our parental wounds as children affect the way we parent our kids?
The purpose of asking ourselves "why is this so triggering for me?"
What happens with our relationship with our teens when we are constantly looking for the negative.
Challenges of being in a step-family and relating to step-kids.
How noticing where we want to control things with our children can help us have better reactions to our teens.
Getting comfortable saying sorry to our teens.
Admitting to our kids when we don't know the answer to something.
What questions to ask your teens instead of giving advice.
Fallback questions or statements to respond to your that gives you time to compose yourself.
Changing our role from fixer to listener.
The burden moms put on themselves around guilt and how it sucks our joy.

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How To Help Your Teen Shift Their Mindset To Find Their Confidence / Interview with Sarah Johnston Jul 26, 2022

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Sarah Johnston has been a mom and coach for over 20 years. She coaches teens and athletes to find their confidence through mental strength coaching. Through her 5-point mindset coaching, she helps teens and athletes shift their perspective, understanding, success, beliefs, and power.

Today, she walks us through how to help our teens shift their mindset to harness the power of their confidence.

Let’s dig in!

What you will learn:

The power in teaching our teens how their brain works.
How to help your teen when his/her thoughts are spiraling.
Helping our teens take away the power of their negative thoughts.
Give yourself permission to not be perfect so you can focus on your skills.
Creating a Failure Jar for our teens (and us!) to bounce back from mistakes or failures.
Increasing your teen's confidence before a sports event or a test.
How to slow your mind down so that you can see your next best move clearly.
How to stop controlling our kids and help your teen manage their thoughts and feeling.
Some of the things moms say to their teens that perpetuate their anxiety or lack of confidence.
Questions to ask your teen about how they are thinking instead of telling.
Coaching your teen on what they do and don't have control over.

Website: https://sarahjanemindsetcoaching.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahjanemindset/

Facebook: http://facebook.com/sarahjanemindsetcoaching

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What To Say To Our Tweens and Teens To Prevent Suicide / Interview with Jackie Simmons Jun 28, 2022

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Many parents avoid the topic of suicide with their tweens and teens until something happens. But true suicide prevention begins now. My guest today helps parents ask the right questions about suicide to rewire our tweens' and teens' brain to be positive.

What you will learn:

What happens when we don't bring up the topic of suicide with our teens/tweens.
How our brains are wired to screen out the warning signs with our children.
Four questions to ask your tween/teen to break the pattern of thought around suicide and flip that energy into something positive.
How parents can train their brain to pay attention to what is positive and the effect this has on our tweens/teens.
How teens' subconscious thoughts form plans and how parents can help.
Helping your tween/teen escape the negative echo chamber in their heads.

Where you can find Jackie:
Please join Jackie on her mission to make teen suicide a thing of the past. You may never know whose life you’ll save. www.TeenSuicidePreventionSociety.com

The Teen Suicide Prevention Society is a registered 501c3 – to make a donation visit: www.TeenSuicidePrevnetionSociety.org
Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindsetisagame/

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Syncing With Your Flow / Interview with Megan Rempel Jun 14, 2022

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What if I told you that you didn't have to dread your period each month? What if there was a way to work with your body's cycle so you could have more energy, be more productive, and avoid PMS? My guest today is here to explain cycle syncing and teach us the four phases of our cycle and how to work with your body in each phase.

Megan Remple is a mom of four, a Registered Nurse, and shows us how to tap into the energies of your monthly cycle through food, movement, and habits.

This conversation is the perfect episode not only for the moms but for our daughters as well. Let's dig in!

What you will learn:

What is cycle synching and how does it incorporate our body’s natural up and down hormonal changes to give us more energy?
What are the 4 phases of a woman's cycle and how long does each last?
The effects it has on us when we try to live in our ovulatory phase all month long.
What you should eat and how you should exercise in each cycle.
How to take care of yourself during each phase and listen to your body and the effects this has on the rest of your life and relationships.
How to determine where you are in your cycle and get started tracking it.
How does cycle synching change when you get into peri-menopause and menopause?

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fittobeamama
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganrempel4
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Megan Rempel is a Registered Nurse with a certificate in Women’s Hormonal Health, a health coach, and a cycle syncing expert. Her mission is to help other women discover that life can actually be easier, IF they tap into the magic that we’ve had inside us all along - our monthly cycle. Her own journey from overwhelmed and exhausted mom of 4 to gaining back control of her life through simple and effective habits and rhythms like cycle syncing is what fuels her passion to help women get out of survival mode and find ease and joy in their lives. She does this through her Instagram content, her paid program Syncing with the Flow, and inside her health coaching community.Links:

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What You Need To Know To Keep Your Teen Safe When They Leave Home / Interview with Cathy Pedrayes Jun 07, 2022

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When kids leave the nest, go off to college or move out of the house, many parents are having sleepless nights thinking about their baby leaving home. On one hand, it’s exciting for your child to experience new things and discover their passions. But the news reports full of burglaries and scams sure aren’t making it easy for you to drop your teenager off at college.

Before you try convincing your teen to do college online and live at home forever, listen to this episode. I talk with Cathy, best known as TikTok’s “Mom Friend” to her 2.3 million followers, who shares how we can prepare our teens to be safe after they leave the nest.

What you will learn:

5 seemingly innocent questions that predators use to take advantage of you.
The top apps to ease worried parents’ minds.
What to know about protecting yourself in your dorm or apartment.
How to quickly take a look at your child's apps to see what they are involved in.
What are the dangers of parking lots and how can we protect ourselves?
Advice on mace and tasers and which is recommended.
The small improvement you can make to your door to prevent it from being kicking in.

@cathypedrayes

Website: https://cathypedrayes.com/
Cathy's book: The Mom Friend Guide to Everyday Safety and Security: Tips from the Practical One in Your Squad

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The Emotional and Social Skills Your Teen Needs To Thrive / Interview with Jennifer Miller May 31, 2022

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Teens and tweens with strong emotional intelligence are more self-aware, good communicators, and have strong relationships with others. We all want this for our children, but how do we help them when many of us have never been taught?

Parents can learn how to cultivate social and emotional intelligence in their teens and tweens in many ways. Jennifer Miller, M.Ed. has twenty-five years of experience working with adults to help them become more effective with children through social and emotional learning. She is the author of the book, “Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence In Ourselves and Our Kids — From Toddlers to Teenagers.” She is the founder of the website Confident Parents Confident Kids where she helps parents raise confident kids.

What you will learn:

What is emotional intelligence and how can we teach our kids when no one taught us?
The five core skills of emotional and social intelligence.
How parents can coach their children through issues that arise within other relationships.
How you can use questions to help your child develop a sense of higher-order thinking skills.
When to step in and when to allow your teen to take a risk.
The value of parents expressing confidence in their teens’ abilities.
When talking with your teen, how you can help them see things from different perspectives?
What impact does it have on our families when parents take a "time out" to process their emotions?
Why you should have a phrase with your teen that means you both need to take a step away.

Where to find Jennifer:

Website: Confident Parents Confident Kids
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/confidentparentsconfidentkids
Jennifer's Book: Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence in Ourselves and Our Kids--from Toddlers to Teenagers

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Parenting The "Sleepless Generation" / Interview with Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright May 24, 2022

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If you could protect your child from unnecessary anxiety, depression, and chronic stress, and foster a greater sense of happiness and well-being in their lives, wouldn’t you?

In the book, Generation Sleepless, Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright, authors of the bestseller, The Happy Sleeper, uncover one of the greatest threats to our teenagers’ physical and mental health: sleep deprivation. Caught in a perfect storm of omnipresent screens, academic overload, and unnecessarily early school start times, Generation Sleepless illustrates how our children are operating in a constant state of sleep debt while struggling to meet the demands of adolescence.

Drawing on the latest scientific research, Generation Sleepless reveals that today’s teenagers are, in fact, the most sleep-deprived population in human history and, at a critical phase of development, need more sleep than their younger siblings. Yet, they’re getting drastically less.

What you will learn:

What is the ideal number of hours of sleep for teens?
The factors that steal teens' sleep.
What the impact is on teens due to lack of sleep.
Signs of sleeplessness for parents to look for in their kids.
Tips on how to help your teen get more sleep.
The importance of a wind-down routine, bedtime routine, and morning routine.

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Building Resilience in Our Teens and Tweens / Interview with Dr. Robyne Hanley-Defoe May 17, 2022

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My guest today is Dr. Robyne Hanley-Defoe. Dr. Robyne is a psychology and education instructor who specializes in resiliency, navigating stress, and change. Today, we talk about how to help foster resiliency in our teens and tweens. So many teens are hurting and this interview will help you meet your tweens and teens where they are. You’ll find this interview very powerful. Let’s dive in!

What you will learn:

How kids from solid, good families can end up losing their way as teenagers.
How we can use the "Five Pillars of Resilience" to help our tweens and teens.
The difference between fitting in and belonging and why belonging is so crucial for our teens.
Roadblocks that get in the way of our kids developing resilience.
The difference between supporting our kids or constantly rescuing them?
Identifying our kid’s strengths and the interpersonal dynamics in a family.
Why connection before correction is so vital for healthy relationships.
Why you should let your child pull away from a hug first.

Where to find Dr. Robyne Hanley-Defoe:

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Twitter: @RHanleyDafoe
Instagram: @dr_robynehd
LinkedIn: ca.linkedin.com/in/drrobynehd
Book: The Calm Within the Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency
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How To Talk About Porn and Sex With Your Tweens and Teens / Interview with Amy Lang May 10, 2022

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Does talking about sex with your kids make you uncomfortable? Do you know what to do if you find out your tween or teen has been looking at porn? You’re not alone. My guest today, Amy Lang, is ready to help!

Amy has been a sexual health educator for over 25 years. Amy’s books, website, and podcast show parents that talking about sexuality doesn’t need to be totally uncomfortable and can actually be fun. She helps parents become their kid’s go-to birds and bees resource. We talk about what our teens and tweens need to know about sex and porn. You’ll find this episode highly engaging and ready to talk about the birds and bees. Let’s dive in!

What you will learn:

What to do when you find out your child has been exposed to pornography.
Parents aren’t talking to their kids about sex or porn. Instead of communicating prevention, learn how to talk to your kids about sex to prepare them for exposure.
Kids are using porn for sex education.
How to talk about sex with your teens and tweens to help them make good decisions.
Statistically how young are kids being exposed to porn and how does it affect them.
When to start talking to your child about sexuality – it’s not too late to start today.
What does it look like for you to be a safe person for your child to discuss anything sex-related?
The importance of monitoring and filtering your child’s internet usage.
Best types of internet monitoring software and how to have these conversations with your kid’s friend’s parents.
How to explain to your child that porn is not good for them.
Plus, Amy provides scripts you can use to talk to your children about porn and sex.

Where to find Amy:

Website: Birds & Bees & Kids

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