Posts tagged mental health
Our Minds on Music with Allison Davies - Part 2

Honestly, our kids get a rough go. What we often expect of them at a young age can far outweigh what their brain can actually manage — and we don’t even realise we’re doing it! Today we’re finishing our chat with Allison Davies.
Today we’re chatting about the importance of predictability for children, Hyperactivity and her family’s journey from homeschooling to schooling.
You can catch the first part of our conversation in last week’s episode. 

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Don't Worry, Be Happy Kids with Jess Sanders

Did you know that 1 in 14 children experience an anxiety disorder in Australia and that anxiety is becoming more and more prevalent in our youth? In this episode, we’re chatting with social worker and author, Jessica Sanders, about how to help our children wrangle their worries. We talk about what anxiety might feel like in children’s bodies, simple strategies for parents wanting to help their children manage anxiety and why it's important to start these conversations with children from a young age.

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'EcoHappiness' and Why You NEED to Hug a Tree with Sandi Schwartz

If you are listening to this podcast, my assumption is that you have a love of nature. In this episode, I chat to Sandi Schwartz, author of Finding Ecohappiness, all about the healing power of mother nature and the ways in which we can develop a nature habit for our families.

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S2E38: Nature - Its Good For Your Mental Health with Melinda Bito

In this episode, we’re chatting with Melinda Bito, founder of Eco-Explorers in Melbourne about tips on creating a business around your family and dream life, the best and hardest parts of owning your own nature play business and how communities and nature can help mental health.

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E32: Present Parenting and Practicing Self-Compassion with Rebecca Branstetter

It’s been a rough year across the globe and particularly rough on parents. With lockdowns, quarantines, working from home, schooling from home, financial and health concerns, we thought it was a good time to get Rebecca Branstetter on Raising Wildlings.

Rebecca is a school psychologist, speaker, and author on a mission to help children thrive by supporting school psychologists, educators, and families.

She is the founder of The Thriving School Psychologist Collective, an online community dedicated to improving mental health and learning supports in public schools, as well as the co-creator of the “Make It Stick Parenting” course, which provides parents tools to build their child’s social-emotional learning, and the “Peace of Mind Parenting” course to support families during distance learning – so she is the right woman for today’s questions!

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