Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

Season 1

Aug. 24, 2020

When a family experiences a traumatic event together & If your child …

When a family experiences a traumatic event together, how can they heal? What do you say when your child says "Nobody likes me." And how do you teach your child to be more flexible?

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Aug. 17, 2020

Back To School Anxiety: Supporting The Social-Emotional Needs of Stud…

In this podcast episode on back to school anxiety, we focus on the social and emotional wellbeing for students and teachers and how parents can help. We take questions for guidance counselors and school administrators about helping everyone in the …

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Aug. 10, 2020

Listeners Ask: Siblings Fighting: Don't Say Boys Will Be Boys

There is a right way for parents to handle siblings fighting. Here are strategies from Lynn Lyons to promote empathy and avoid teaching victimization and when parents should intervene and when they should stay out of it. Another listener who's …

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Aug. 4, 2020

Listeners Ask: Back To School Anxiety and Teens Self Diagnosing Their…

Listeners ask Lynn in this bonus summer episode about the stress of choosing the best school model for her tweens and teens: remote learning, the hybrid model, and returning to school. Another listener asks how to respond when her 16-year-old …

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July 27, 2020

Listeners Ask: Teens And Peer Pressure

When your teenagers start testing you with new language and behaviors, how do you help them strengthen the skills they need to be more immune to peer pressure and self destructive behavior like cutting? Lynn Lyons answers a listener's question …

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July 7, 2020

Co-Parenting In A Pandemic: How to Find A Better Balance

Work. Parenting. Relationships. Remember how elusive the idea of balance used to feel way back in 2019? Now it seems like a downright fantasy. The research shows this pandemic has been disruptive to our families in significant ways. And it's …

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July 1, 2020

A Family Summer Guide To 2020: Social Distancing Fun

Summer 2020 is unlike any other. In this podcast we help parents think through assessing reasonable risks, managing disappointment around missed summer rituals, and reexamining boredom with a positive lens. We also provide more than 40 ideas of summer activities— …

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June 15, 2020

Listeners Ask: Meltdowns, Anxiety And Depression in Kids

In this parenting podcast, Lynn Lyons answers listener questions about meltdowns and anxiety and depression kids facing the stresses of 2020.

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June 8, 2020

Confronting White Fragility and Colorblindness

As the world reacts to the Black Lives Matter movement. we discuss how emotional management can help white people handle white fragility and why families should stop the cycle of raising colorblind children.

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June 1, 2020

Unpacking Your Family's Baggage And Starting Fresh With Your Kids

What did you learn about handling anger, sadness, and worry as a child from your family? How does that affect your parenting? We unpack our family baggage in this episode to see how we can stop dysfunctional generational patterns and …

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May 25, 2020

Listeners Ask: Mom Guilt, Burnout, and School Stress

Mom guilt, burnout, and stress over remote learning has most parents exhausted these days. Hear psychotherapist Lynn Lyons discuss ways to manage these pandemic parenting stresses.

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May 18, 2020

Parents: Try These Bedtime Routine Hacks

Bedtime routine and sleep issues are tough. Now add a global pandemic, and no one is getting good sleep. Here's how to improve sleep problems for kids, teens, and parents. Download our free kids' sleep meditation.

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May 7, 2020

Helicopter Parents: Strategies for Landing

Helicopter parenting is a loaded label that some parents either wear with pride or are quick to deny. When we hover out of concern, what does that do to our children? While we crowd in our homes during lockdown, it …

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April 29, 2020

Regressive Behavior From Toddlers to Teens: What’s Normal

In our next guide to parenting in a pandemic, regressive behavior appears at all stages of development at many different ages. Learn why child regression happens and how to respond to it and why you might be seeing it more …

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April 23, 2020

Plan Now for the Next New Normal

When you look around your home, you’ve probably let some things go, as we’ve all been adapting to our new normal. That’s perfectly reasonable. We’ve been in the “just getting by” mode. But there will be a transition back to …

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April 16, 2020

Why We Must Flatten Our Emotional Curve For Our Kids

Parents must attempt to manage their emotions in front of their kids. We talk about how to handle powerful moments of anger and panic in an an ideal way as well as how to conclude unintentional emotional outbursts in a …

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April 12, 2020

Managing Disappointment: When FOMO Becomes Just MO

With all of our graduation, birthday, and family plans cancelled, we must still acknowledge them. We find silver linings in ways to teach our kids critical life skills in adaptability and managing disappointment. We talk about why to put those …

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April 9, 2020

Stuck-In-Home Parenting

We have a new category of parenting, the stuck-in-the-house parent. Anxiety expert Lynn Lyons explains why we feel like we are riding a new emotional rollercoaster, and why we feel so exhausted, as our brains are working overtime to absorb …

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April 5, 2020

Trailer: Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons

Lynn Lyons is one of the most sought after experts on anxiety in parents and children. Flusterclux offers authentic, compassionate straight talk for parents to connect, reflect, and feel prepared to support their family’s mental health with the stresses of …

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