The Expat Mom Podcast

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Supporting Kids with Anxiety with Alivia Irwin Part 2 Jul 12, 2021

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Rates of anxiety in expat kids are high. The unique lifestyle it’s challenges can exacerbate anxiety. However, there is lots parents can do to support kids. On this episode my podcast guest, Alivia Irwin LCSW, shares some tools to help.
On the podcast you’ll learn:

How does moving impact kids with anxiety?
How can I best support my kids during a move?
How do I support my teen with anxiety around social issues?
How much does sleep affect anxiety?

Contact Alivia Irwin
Website: https://www.aliviairwin.com/
Instagram: @aliviairwinlcsw

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jennie@theexpatmom.com
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Supporting Kids with Anxiety with Alivia Irwin Part 1 Jul 05, 2021

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Rates of children with anxiety everywhere are rising, but the rates are even higher among the expat population. Many expat children struggle with anxiety. On the podcast, Alivia Irwin, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specializes in anxiety herself and has been an expat twice addresses how parents can best support kids with anxiety.

One the podcast you’ll learn:

What happens to a child biologically when they experience anxiety
How to support a child in the moment of high anxiety
How to help children deal with anxiety in the long-term to lessen it
About habituation and how it impacts anxiety

Contact Alivia Irwin
Website: https://www.aliviairwin.com/
Instagram: @aliviairwinlcsw

How to Get Your Kids to Open Up and Talk to You More Jun 28, 2021

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Sometimes getting kids to share details about the day can feel like pulling teeth out! While we can't force our kids to talk, there are a few simple things we can do to help our kids open up and be willing to share.
One the episode you'll learn:

How your agenda and your child's agenda might not match
The type of questions to use...and which ones NOT to use
How to respond so your child wants to keep talking
How to know when to back off

Sibling Rivalry Part 2 Jun 21, 2021

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Sometimes dealing with sibling rivalry can feel exhausting!! One of the best ways to mitigate the potential harm from sibling rivalry is to teach children how to fight right. In other words, rather than just stopping the conflict—we can teach kids HOW to resolve it. This meta-skill is SO valuable, much more valuable than simply ending the chaos of the moment during a sibling quarrel. In this episode we learn what we can do as parents to set our kids up for success in resolving conflict.
On the podcast you'll learn:
*When should you intervene in a sibling argument
*How to create an environment that naturally limits conflict among siblings
*Five P's of resolving sibling conflict
*How to stay calm when kids are fighting
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jennie@theexpatmom.com
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One-Minute Wisdom
Each week I carefully craft a short perspective shift or tool that you can read in about a minute or two. You can sign up here.
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Sibling Rivalry Part 1 Jun 14, 2021

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If you have more than one child, you’ve probably experienced some fighting and some rivalry between your kids. Actually, expat life is very supportive of sibling relationships and many families report that living abroad helps their kids feel close since they depend more on each other and have unique shared experiences. But being together a lot can also mean there is conflict. Today on the podcast we explore some of the benefits of sibling conflict, how to use rivalry to teach your children, and how to stay calm yourself.

On the podcast you'll learn:

*Benefits of sibling rivalry

*How to handle fatigue from dealing with constant fighting

*Why sibling rivalry is an amazing teaching opportunity

*How to trust yourself to know how to respond

*Three roles that can help you address sibling rivalry
Send me an email with a question or with an experience
jennie@theexpatmom.com
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One-Minute Wisdom
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How to Enjoy Traveling with Kids Jun 07, 2021

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Traveling with kids can have some amazing benefits, but it can also be challenging. On this episode we discuss how minimize the challenges and accentuate the benefits to really enjoy traveling with kids.
On this episode you'll learn:

What science says about the benefits of travel with kids
How to prepare for an enjoyable trip with kids
How add more fun into your travel
How to support kids with anxiety while traveling
Why what you do after travel has a lot to do with your experience

Emotion Coaching Part 4: Troubleshooting & Making Emotion Coaching the Norm May 31, 2021

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What keeps you from emotion coaching your kids? Do you feel like you just don’t have time? You are just too reactive? Your kids are too young or too old? There are lots of things that keep us from coaching our kids through emotions. This episode addresses some of the most common questions and issues parents have about emotion coaching.

Things you’ll learn on the podcast:

When is too young or too old to emotion coach
How to adapt emotion coaching for different ages
What to do if your child gets MORE upset when you emotion coach them
How to feel less reactive when your kids have a big emotion

Emotion Coaching Kids Part 3: Five Steps to Help Kids Deal with Big Emotions in a Healthy Way May 24, 2021

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Studies show that kids’ emotional success is much less dependent on the quantity of difficult things that happen to them and much more on their experience with them. As parents, we can’t always control what happens to our kids—nor would we want to. But we can control how we support our kids through whatever does happen. And, this support piece is much more powerful to their emotional health anyway. On this episode we break down the “how-to” of emotion coaching. We discuss five simple steps to walk your child through a big emotion. This is the third in a series on emotion coaching kids. If you haven’t listened to episode #39 and #40—those are helpful pre-cursers to this episode.

On this episode you’ll learn:

The five steps to emotion coaching
How to help your kids feel understood but still set limits and move forward
If emotion coaching can be used for positive emotions
Practical applications and examples for emotion coaching for young kids and teens

Emotion Coaching Kids Part 2: Getting in the Right Mindset May 17, 2021

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Most of us think that we’re being a good parent if we keep our kids happy. But that’s not true. In fact, some of our best parenting can occur when our kids are experiencing a negative emotion. That’s because studies show that kids’ emotional health is less dependent on the amount of negative emotion they experience and more on how they were supported through it. When we are able to coach our kids through negative emotions and companion them along the way—we offer them a much more valuable gift than simply trying to eliminate stressful things or act like everything is fine all the time.

Having a mindset that allows you to help you children deal with big emotions depends on being comfortable with some important beliefs about emotions. Some of these beliefs are a bit counter-culture, meaning they aren’t beliefs we absorb naturally in our modern society. We’re often taught that negative emotions are bad and something to avoid. But negative emotions have MANY benefits for us and our children. But as parents, we get to be on the cutting edge of creating a healthier society for ourselves and our children to live in. We get to be the change.
On this podcast you'll learn:

The mistake lots of parents make when addressing kid's big emotions
Why mindset matters
Why negative emotions might be exactly what your child needs
Five essential beliefs that establish a healthy mindset to coach kids through emotions

Resources
Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Brene Brown Podcast feature the authors:
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-emily-and-amelia-nagoski-on-burnout-and-how-to-complete-the-stress-cycle/
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Emotion Coaching Kids Part 1: What Not to Do! May 10, 2021

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Kids and big emotions often go together like peanut butter and jelly. It’s part of the business of childhood and our teen years to figure out how to deal with our emotions. And, as parents we can be a help or a hinderance in that process. It isn’t always intuitive to know how to help kids with emotions—in fact we often want to avoid negative emotions for our kids. This week on the podcast we examine some of the mistakes parents make when responding to kids’ negative emotions.
On the podcast you'll learn:

Four parenting approaches to kids' negative emotions
What the impact of each is on kids according to research
Which one is most successful

Resources
John Gottman, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
Free Mini-Coaching Session
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One-Minute Wisdom
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Follow me on Instagram: @theexpatmomcoach
Find more resources at my website: http://theexpatmom.com

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