Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Parenting
By Dr. Lisa Damour/Good Trouble Productions
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Raising kids can be a bumpy, stressful, and uncertain process – which is why Dr. Lisa Damour is here to help. The author of bestsellers Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers brings her sane, informed, and practical perspective to your timely and timeless parenting questions. Co-host and journalist Reena Ninan, a former White House and foreign correspondent, gets the answers parents need. In each episode, Dr. Lisa and Reena blend expert knowledge with their experience and struggles as parents themselves to tackle real-life questions sent in by listeners.
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167: Weed's Legal. How Do I Talk With My Teen About It?
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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166: My Kid Is Being Bullied. What Should I Do?
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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165: How Do I Support my Heartbroken Son?
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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164: Why Is My Kid Hooked on Luxury Skin Care?
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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163: Encore: My Kid Looked at Porn. What Should I Do?
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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162: How Do I Talk with My Teen about Fentanyl?
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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161: How Do I Get my Teens to Want to Spend Time with Me?
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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160: Can I Require my Teen to Be on Birth Control?
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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159: Should I Worry That My Teen Is So Introverted?
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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158: Practical Optimism with Dr. Sue Varma
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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157: My Kid Has Diagnosed Herself on TikTok. What Should I Do?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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156: Is There a Gentle Way to Drop a Friend?
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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155: Should I Be Worried that My Son Is Obsessed with Weightlifting?
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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154: The 5 Principles of Parenting: with Dr. Aliza Pressman
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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153: Encore: How Do We Help Kids Through Divorce?
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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152: Will Social Media Harm My Kid?
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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151: How Do I Find Balance in 2024?
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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150: Encore: How Do I Get My Son to Stop Picking On His Little Sister?
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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149: Encore: Should I Bribe My Kid?
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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148: What Should I Do With Dicey Information About Other People’s Kids?
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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147: Girls Are Harassing My Son. What Should I Do?
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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146: What's the Best Way to Help a Kid with ADHD?
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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145: Encore: My Kids Lose it When They Make Sports Mistakes. How Can I Help?
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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144: How Much Should I Share About My Kids?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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143: How Do I Raise A Compassionate Child? With Dr. Traci Baxley
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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142: Should My Teen Be In Cars with New Drivers?
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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141: How Do Stop Riding My Kid's Emotional Roller Coaster?
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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140: Can I Talk My Teen Out of a Toxic Romance?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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139: This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained with Dr. Cara Natterson and Vanessa Bennett
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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138: Should Our Teen Stay Home Alone When We Leave Town?
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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137: How Do I Parent a Teen with a Chronic Health Condition?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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136: Should I Allow My Tween To Wear Crop Tops?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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135: How Do I Combat My Kid's Perfectionism?
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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134: My Son and His Friends Use Slurs. Can I Stop This?
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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133: A Conversation with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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132: Never Enough: Confronting Toxic Achievement Culture (with author Jennifer Wallace)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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131: Encore: How Do I Help My Disorganized High School Kid?
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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130: Encore: Should I Kick my Kid Off TikTok?
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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129: Encore: My Kid Was Dumped by Her Friends. How Can I Help?
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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128: Encore: Should I Track my Teen's Location?
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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127: Encore: How Much Gaming is Too Much?
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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126: Encore: Raising an Athlete? Advice from an Olympic Mom
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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125: Encore: How Do We Talk to Kids About Justice? Special Guest Preet Bharara
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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124: Encore: How and When Do I Give My Kid a Phone?
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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123: Here's To Summer!
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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122: How Much Structure Should Kids Have in the Summer?
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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121: Encore: Should I Bribe My Kid?
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May 30, 2023 |
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120: My Teen Is Into Sports Betting. Help!
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May 23, 2023 |
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119: How Do I Get My Son to Stop Picking on His Little Sister?
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May 16, 2023 |
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118: My Daughter Is Cutting Herself. What Should I Do?
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May 09, 2023 |
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117: My College-Bound Kid Is "Soiling the Nest." Help!
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May 02, 2023 |
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116: Should I Kick My Kid Off TikTok?
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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115: How Do I Parent a Young Adult (and Deal with my Own Parents)? Guest: Laurence Steinberg, PhD
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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114: Should My Kid Take a Gap Year?
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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113: How Do I Help My Kid Deal with Unfairness?
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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112: How Much Gaming is Too Much?
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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111: What Kind of Therapy is Right for My Kid?
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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110: What Is Real Self-Care for Parents? Special Guest and Author: Pooja Lakshmin, MD
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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109: Encore: Why Are Our Kids So Mean To Us?
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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108: How Do I Help My Disorganized High School Kid?
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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107: Lisa's New Book! The Emotional Lives of Teenagers
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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106: Should I Give the Sex Talk if I Think I'm Already Too Late?
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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105: My Kid Complains Constantly. How Do I Get Him to Stop?
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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104: How Do I Support My LGBTQ+ Daughter?
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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103: How Do I Talk My Teen Out of Vaping?
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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102: Encore: My Son Messed Up. Can I Keep Him from Being Canceled?
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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101: How Do I Get My Teen Sons to Talk to Me?
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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100: How Can Parents Find Joy and Energy in the New Year?
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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99: Encore: How Do I Keep My Kids Grounded in a Materialistic World?
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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98: My Friends' Kids Are Excluding My Kid. What Should I Do?
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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97: Should I Track My Teen's Location?
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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96: How Do I Raise Financially Responsible Kids? Special Guest Bobbi Rebell
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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95: Encore: Happy Holidays? Dealing with Difficult Relatives
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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94: My Clingy Teen Hates Going to School. How Do I Help?
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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93: Should I Monitor My Kid’s Grades Online?
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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92: I’m Not Ready for My Kid to Be in Love. Help!
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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91: My Kid Hates Being A Late Bloomer. How Can I Help?
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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90: Should My Kid Play Violent Video Games?
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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89: How Do I Get My Teen To Take Charge of Her Life?
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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88: How Do I Get My Son to Give Up Pot?
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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87: Do I Really Have to Send My Tween to Sleepovers?
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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86: How Do I Pay For College Without Going Broke? Special Guest: Author Ron Lieber
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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85: My Kids Lose it When They Make Sports Mistakes. How Can I Help?
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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84: How Do I Encourage My Tween to Drop a Bad Friendship?
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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83: How Do I Get My Teen to Take School Seriously?
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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The Danger Zone on Insta
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Summer Instagram Lives!
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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82: How Should Kids Spend Summer 2022?
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May 24, 2022 |
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81: Why Is Our Kid Being So Mean to Us?
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May 17, 2022 |
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80: Should I Push My Child Out of the Nest?
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May 10, 2022 |
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79: What Do Parents Need to Know about Suicide?
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May 03, 2022 |
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78: My Daughter’s Nude Selfie Got Out. What Do We Do Now?
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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77 Encore: I Hate Nagging My Kids. What Else Works?
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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76: How and When Do I Tell My Kids Their Grandma is Dying?
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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75: How Do I Help My Teen Deal With College Rejections?
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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74: My Son Messed Up. Can I Keep Him from Being Canceled?
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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73: I Saw My Daughter’s Shocking Texts. Should I Confront Her?
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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72: How Do We Talk to Kids About Justice? Advice from Preet Bharara
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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71: My Kid Was Dumped by Her Friends. How Can I Help?
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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70: Do I Tell My Daughter She’s Beautiful?
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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69 Encore: Lying, Sneaking, Cheating. What Keeps Kids from Being Honest?
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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68: How Should Step-Parents Fit In?
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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67: Should My Teen Go to a Sleepover with Her Boyfriend?
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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66: Should I Bribe My Kid?
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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65: My Depressed Teen Refuses Therapy. How Do I Help?
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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64: How Do I Build My Kids' Confidence and Self-Esteem?
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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63: Raising an Athlete? Advice from an Olympic Mom.
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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62: How Do I Boost Mental Health in 2022?
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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61: Encore: My Kid Looked at Porn. What Should I Do?
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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60: How Do We Help Kids Through Divorce?
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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59: My Daughter Is the Mean Girl. What Do I Do?
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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58: Does My Child Have OCD?
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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57: Happy Holidays? Dealing with Difficult Relatives.
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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56: Encore - My Child is Turning Into a Teenager. How Do I Handle It?
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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55: How Do I Keep My Kids Grounded in a Materialistic World?
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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54: How and When Do I Give My Kid a Phone?
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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53: Should I Comment on My Child’s Weight?
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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52: What Do Parents Need to Know About Edibles?
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Welcome to Ask Lisa!
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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51: I Hate Nagging My Kids. What Else Works?
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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50: How Do I Build My Kid’s Confidence and Self-Esteem?
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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49: Should My Teen Socialize With Unvaccinated Friends?
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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48: How Often Should I Be in Touch with My College Freshman?
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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47: Should Teens Be Allowed to Drink at Home?
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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46: How Do You Help a Kid Who Shuts You Out?
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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45: I Don't Like My Kid's Friends. What Do I Do?
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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44: Seriously?! How Do I Face Back-to-School 2021?
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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43: What Should My Kids Do This Summer?
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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42: How Do I Talk to My Child About Racism? With Special Guest: Emmanuel Acho
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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41: How Do I Help My Kid Find Friends Again?
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May 25, 2021 |
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40: My Kid’s Room Is a Hot Mess. What Should I Do?
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May 18, 2021 |
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39: How Do I Get My Kids to Stop Fighting?
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May 11, 2021 |
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38: How Do I Teach My Kids About Consent?
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May 04, 2021 |
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37: How Do I Know If My Child Has an Eating Disorder?
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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36: Helping Kids Manage Grief and Loss
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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35: Sexy Social Media. Where Should Parents Draw the Line?
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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34: How to Raise an Adult
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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33: Encore Podcast: Toolbox for Terrible Times
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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32: Lying, Sneaking, Cheating. What Keeps Kids From Being Honest?
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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31: My Kid Looked at Porn. What Should I Do?
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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30: My Kids & I Have Hit a Wall. How Do We Keep Going?
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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29: How Do I Get My Kid Into Mindfulness?
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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28: Bored, Sad, & Smoking Weed: How Do We Talk to Kids About Drug Use?
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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27: What Do I Do When Friends and Family Don't Share Our Covid Rules?
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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26: My Child is Turning Into a Teenager. How Do I Handle It?
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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25: How Do I Get My Smelly Teen to Shower?
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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24: My Daughter Is Questioning Her Gender. What Do I Do?
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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23: I Can’t Make Sense of America. What Do I Tell My Kids?
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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22: My Kid Hates Remote Learning. What Do I Do?
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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21: How Do I Hit the Reset Button for 2021?
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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20: Kids & Covid: Pediatrician & Covid-19 Expert Dr. Cara Natterson Answers Your Questions
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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19: How Will the Pandemic Affect my Child Long-term?
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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18: Can Online Socializing Go Too Far?
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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17: How Do I Get My Kid To Open Up?
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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16: How Do You Handle Holidays in a Pandemic?
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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15: How Has the Pandemic Changed College Admissions?
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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14: Dads & Daughters, Mothers & Sons: How Does Gender Shape Parenting?
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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13: How Do I Motivate My Kid to Do Homework?
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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12: What Can Kids Learn from a Tense Election?
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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11: Where's the Line Between Being Healthy and Having an Eating Disorder?
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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10: How Do I Parent When I Feel Like I’m Drowning?
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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9: What to Do When Kids Don’t Listen: Advice for Threenagers to Teenagers
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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8: Apathetic, Cranky, Frustrated: Dealing with Kids' Distress About School
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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7: When Is Anxiety a Disorder? When Does Sadness Become Depression?
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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6: Will the Pandemic Disrupt My Kid’s Social Development?
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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5: Toolbox for Terrible Times: Managing Helplessness and Hopelessness
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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4: Helping Kids Eat Well and Stay Active Under Covid-19
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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3: How to Deal with Conflict While Stuck at Home
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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1: Parenting During a Pandemic
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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2: Back to School During Coronavirus
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Aug 24, 2020 |