Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry
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Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry
Parenting isn't easy, and it's normal to worry. Lynn Lyons, therapist, author, and speaker is one of the world's experts on helping parents, kids, and teens manage anxiety. She talks with co-hosts sister-in-law Robin Hutson and brother Ed Gerwig in a weekly podcast full of laughs, and practical advi...
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From Gentle Parenting to FAFO Parenting - Which Schools of Thought Make You A Better Mom Or Dad?
Parenting “styles” are all the rage. Gentle, eggshell, snowplow, concierge…and more! Robin and Lynn wade into the jargon, the benefits, and—of course—...
How To Handle The Child That Says “This Is Not Worry!”
Lynn is big on families knowing how worry and anxiety work. If we’re going to ask kids and parents to take an approach that is the OPPOSITE of what fe...
What To Do When Your Kid Wants to Stay Home: School Avoidance 101 for Parents
What do you do when your child starts missing too many days of school? In this episode, Lynn and Robin address a mom’s question about her middle schoo...
Why Kids Who Contribute Do Better Emotionally and Socially
The research is clear: when children (and adults) contribute in a useful way, their confidence, autonomy, and self-efficacy improve. Mood gets better,...
How To Teach Your Child To Handle Frustration
This episode tackles a few listener questions that we think are relatable to many. First, how do you work on increasing your rigid child’s frustratio...
Sounding the Alarm On Smartphones and the Impact On Kids With Dr. Jean Twenge
Dr. Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego University, has been a consistent voice of warning on the impact of smartphones and social med...
Concrete Reminders About Avoidance and Accommodation
Parents consistently ask Lynn for the language to use with their children and teens when the family is moving away from avoidance and accommodation. I...
Why Manners and Social Awareness Are Important In A Disconnected World
Manners and social skills are important for some basic reasons: we want our children to learn how to move through the world with decency and respect....
In Session: I Want My 13-Year-Old Out of My Bed!
Mary is looking for help with her 13year old daughter Reese who was Diagnosed with ADHD and anxiety in third grade. Successes are many, but after year...
How "Productive Struggle" Helps Decrease Anxiety and Depression
Struggle is a vital part of learning, growing and mastery. As the new school year begins, Lynn and Ed discuss the movement from awkward and uncomforta...
Best Of: Off to College: Let's Talk About Roommates
Is your child heading off to college this fall? If it’s their first year, then the roommate uncertainty may be dominating your household. Sparked by a...
A Back-To-School Reboot For Anxious Kids and Parents
Here comes school…which means it’s time for reminders and a chance for a reset. From morning routines to screens, from the language of uncertainty to...
In Session: How Trying To “Talk Through” Bedtime Worries Backfires
In this In Session episode, Lynn talks with Sarah about her 11-year-old daughter who has become increasingly insistent about her bedtime ritual of rum...
With Anxious Kids, We’re Getting the Idea of "Consistency" All Wrong
Parents are encouraged to provide “consistency” with their anxious children. But the type of consistency that’s often prescribed is the opposite of wh...
In-Session: Is Bossiness During Playdates An Anxiety Issue?
Sam and Vincent are struggling with the rigidity and bossiness of their six-year-old daughter, Jody. They’ve made great strides with her separation an...
Best Of: 911 Marriages: Tips From Divorce Prevention Expert Michele Weiner Davis
What happens when children are the absolute focus of a family? Marriages suffer, says Michele Weiner-Davis, a renowned relationship expert who pulls c...
Letting Your Kids Learn to Manage Conflict and Problem Solve
Do your kids bicker? Teaching kids how to manage conflict both with friends and siblings is important…and exhausting! In this episode, Lynn describes...
Best Of: The Anxiety Around Your Kid's Health with Pediatrician Dr. Jessica Hochman
Pediatricians and family physicians are on the front lines of our children’s mental health needs. In fact, they are reporting more and more that it’s...
How Phobias Like Fear of Vomiting Can Spiral and Take Over Families
Emetophobia is the fear of vomiting. It’s powerful and can take over a family in dramatic fashion. In this episode, Lynn talks throwing up: how famili...
Best Of: How To Support Your Anxious Child 101
This episode tackles the question we hear most often from our new listeners: how do I support my anxious child? Lynn lays out the three keys for paren...
Postpartum Anxiety and Depression: What Moms and Dads Need To Know
Being a new parent brings up every emotion…including anxiety. Does it show up differently in moms and dads? (Yes.) Are there ways to make it less powe...
"Parents Still Matter!" Lynn Discusses Recent Research Surrounding Our Kids
As we dive into summer, Lynn zips through three recent research findings that are great reminders about prevention, exercise, labels and warmth. (And...
Puberty and Parenting: How to Evolve Communication with Your Tween with the Hosts of "This is So Awkward"
We talk with the hosts of the This is So Awkward podacst about how communication shifts with kids as they become tweens and teens. We tackle all thing...
Best Of: Owning Your Own Grouchiness in Relationships and Shifting to Kinder Communication
Lynn often says that the hardest people to work with in her practice are the ones that don’t own their own stuff. In this recast of a popular Season 6...
The Common Pathway From Anxiety to Depression And How To Disrupt It
Unfortunately, childhood anxiety often leads to depression. But not always! Certain patterns increase the likelihood and make the path smoother. Knowi...
When Your Child’s “Rituals” Become Problematic: Compulsive Behavior To Monitor
A listener has concerns about her daughter’s bedtime ritual. Once simply seen as cute, the words needing to be spoken in a certain way each evening ar...
Hypnosis Carries Some Baggage: Lynn Unpacks It And Sets Us Straight
A little known fact about Lynn: she uses pediatric hypnosis and even wrote a clinical text on the subject. The term hypnosis carries a lot of baggage,...
What Can A Parent Do When A Teen Is Refusing Help?
In this episode, a mother is struggling with her daughter’s demand for certainty. At 17, she’s convinced she has cancer, won’t attend therapy, and is...
Avoid These Traps In Your Family's Therapy (So You Don't Get Stuck)
After decades of seeing families, Lynn quickly spots the obstacles that undermine or even derail therapy. From inconsistency to too many cooks in the...
How Our Goal of Eliminating Anxiety Backfires Big Time
Of course we want to get rid of worry, our own and our kids’, but trying to eliminate the thoughts and feelings and sensations of anxiety is a trap. N...
Five Years Post-Covid, Have Parents Given Up On Teaching Social Norms?
As we reflect on the fifth anniversary of COVID this month, Lynn and Ed discuss its impact on kids’ social interactions. Have adults stopped modeling...
Anxiety Causes Bedtime Chaos: Here's What Families Can Do
Anxiety messes with sleep and lack of sleep messes with most everything. So, it's not surprising that it’s one of the most frequent and urgent problem...
Can Friends Discuss Anxious Parenting Without Getting Defensive?
What happens when you try to get your family members or friends to join you in shifting away from anxious parenting patterns? One listener tried, and...
In Session: We’ve Made Great Strides With Our Son’s Social Anxiety… Where Do We Go Next?
In this In Session episode, Lynn talks to Kaitlin, mom to a 7 year old boy with social anxiety and selective mutism. While her son has made impressive...
A Success Story: Noah's Journey Of Managing Anxiety From Age 11 to 24
In this episode, Lynn & Ed are joined by Noah Cummings who was featured with Lynn in the documentary Anxious Nation. Noah and Lynn have known each oth...
The Skill of Differentiation and the Importance of Asking "How" Questions
Lynn was lucky to learn about the skill of differentiation from Michael Yapko (be sure to listen to our Season 6 conversation with Michael!) and in th...
The Three P's: Permanence, Postive Expectancy and Placebo
Our words matter as they often convey to our children how to approach the setbacks and challenges of life. In this episode Lynn and Ed dive into three...
The #1 Skill for Handling Social Anxiety & A Listener's Question On Her Son's Constant Questions
Listeners have been asking for more discussion on the skills needed to help social anxiety, so we review this to start; then Lynn answers a listener q...
Your Anxious Kid Calls You From School To Be Picked Up. What Should You Do?
Getting an anxious child into school is sometimes an (exhausting) victory. But when they then want to be picked up, parents are often hit with doubt,...
Listener Question: We Have Nightly Meltdowns Around Homework. Help!
In this episode, a listener is struggling with her children’s homework meltdowns. She’s exhausted by the nightly distress and has tried to be patient,...