The Uplift Kids Podcast

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Making Friends in a Digital Age (+ Parenting Workshop) Sep 19, 2025

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How do you help kids make friends in a digital age, especially when digital communication can be so fraught. Amanda, Michelle, and Jon talk about guidelines that can help parents and kids alike.

Join our parenting workshop in Utah on October 5th. We'd love to meet you in person alongside other parents interested in expansive spirituality and timeless values.

See details: https://upliftkids.org/workshop/

Self-Advocacy (+ Announcing Day Camp, Oct 4) Sep 05, 2025

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Amanda Suarez (school psychologist) and Michelle Larson (marriage and family therapist associate) talk about how to best help kids develop the skill of self-advocacy so they can be clear about their wants and needs.

We also announce a family day camp in Utah on October 4th. See details: https://upliftkids.org/uplift-family-day-camp/

Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn — and Face Aug 22, 2025

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In this episode, Amanda Suarez (school psychologist) and Michelle Larsen (marriage and family therapist associate) talk about common responses to stress and trauma — and how to develop a wise, confident, and calm response to such situations instead.

It all pairs well with our printable on the topic in our social and emotional library, found at:

UpliftKids.org/SEL

Calming Breathing Strategies — And Why They Matter! Aug 08, 2025

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*Note that we've switched to new episodes every other week. In this episode we talk about our latest printable in our social and emotional library — a printable that outlines 6 breathing strategies that can help kids find a sense of calm throughout their lives. It's a useful way to get through an emotionally overwhelming moment at home, with friends, at school, or anywhere!

Help Kids Respond Instead of React Jul 25, 2025

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How can you help kids respond to problems instead of react to them? School psychologist Amanda Suarez and marriage and family therapist associate Michelle Larson talk about a timeless concept conveyed simply in one of our original printables that families can use at home with kids.

See our printables for members: https://upliftkids.org/social-and-emotional-skills-printables-for-kids/

Family Camp + New Direction for the Podcast Jul 18, 2025

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In this week's episode, Uplift Kids cofounder Jon Ogden talks about our third family camp in Scholls Valley, Oregon, including some highlights from the feedback we received. Join the waitlist for next year's camp:

https://upliftkids.org/family-camp/

Jon also announces a new direction for the podcast, which will focus on exploring a new skills-based printable each week from our growing social and emotional printables page. Members have full access to these printables here:

https://upliftkids.org/social-and-emotional-skills-printables-for-kids/

Stay tuned for more printables!

Balance Warmth and Structure + Practice Rupture and Repair Jul 04, 2025

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In our final exploration of the book Raising Securely Attached Kids, Amanda, Michelle, and Jon talk about the need to balance warmth and structure in the home to build a trusting environment.

An excerpt, from Amanda:

"When I think about what this could look like in a home like in the morning there could be a visual checklist of, "This is the routine. This is what we do in the morning: We wake up, we have breakfast, we brush our teeth, we put on our shoes, we pack our school bag."

So there's something visual that gives structure, but there's also some, ritual of connection. ... So you could have a way where you're attending to the different parts of the day and like, how much structure do we have and how much warmth is also built into that structure."

See our new Rupture and Repair printable for members: https://upliftkids.org/social-and-emotional-skills-printables-for-kids/

Take the Cooperation-Based Approach to Parenting Jun 27, 2025

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This week Michelle (therapist associate) and Amanda (school psychologist) continue the conversation about Eli Harwood's book Raising Securely Attached Kids. They talk about a cooperation-based approach to parenting and where parents might go wrong in getting to that approach by being either too domineering or too indulgent. They also talk about reflective functioning and "good enough parenting." It's a conversation with lots of pragmatic and timeless parenting tips.

Members can join our book club on Monday, July 7th at 10am PT. (See our weekly email to register!)

How to Raise Securely Attached Kids Jun 20, 2025

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Michelle, Amanda, and Jon discuss practical insights from Raising Securely Attached Kids by Eli Harwood. Hear how to experience attunement and co-regulation, giving your kids a foundation of love and generosity.

4 Simple Steps to Navigate Conflict at Home Jun 13, 2025

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In this episode, Amanda Suarez and Jon Ogden explore one of the three frameworks we use in our conflict lesson. Use it to navigate conflict at home.

https://upliftkids.org/lessons/conflict/

Michelle returns next week, which is when we will start our conversation about Raising Securely Attached Kids by Eli Harwood.

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