Season 7
If You Are An Anxious Parent, Are Your Kids Doomed?
If you’re anxious as a parent, are your kids doomed? Not necessarily, but there are risk factors you have to pay attention to and patterns to interrupt. WE'VE MADE PLAYLISTS OF OUR EPISODES TO HELP YOU FIND RESOURCES ON SPECI...
Parents & Clinicians: These 3 All-Too-Common Mistakes Are Not Helping…
Lynn had too little sleep and too much coffee, so she’s telling it like it is with Robin’s complete endorsement. What are the three things Lynn keeps hearing from parents and therapists that we need to stop doing? Buckle up f...
A Talk with Jessica Lahey: The Myths Surrounding Parenting and Alcohol
Our guest this episode is Jessica Lahey, author of The Gift of Failure and The Addiction Inoculation . Her goal is to provide straightforward facts to parents about kids and substance use. You know how much we love talking pr...
How to Use This Podcast to Manage the Anxiety In Your Family
Whether you are a new or veteran listener of the podcast, Lynn Lyons and Robin Hutson talk about how to use the podcast best to help learn anxiety management skills for adults and children. Listen up and hear how to address t...
The Importance of Routine and Ritual For Your Family
On Flusterclux, we love focusing on prevention. What are the big picture “moves” we can incorporate into our families now that lessen risk for struggles later on? In this episode, we talk about the role of ritual and traditio...
Listener Question: Our Daughter Is Freaked Out By Our Having Intimacy…
We received a listener question about handling a child’s extreme discomfort with her parents’ “alone time.” Robin thinks this a unique issue. Nope! says Lynn. WE'VE MADE PLAYLISTS OF OUR EPISODES TO HELP YOU FIND RESOURCES ON...
Listeners Ask About Pushing Kids Who Cling Or Avoid Activities
What do a 3 year old and a 13 year old have in common? A temperament that makes it tricky for parents to help navigate how and when to “step in.” And is this type of temperament a problem? Not necessarily when connection is t...
Discovering Disturbing Group Texts On Your Kid's Phone
Phones, phones, phones! Everybody’s talking about them (including us!) In this episode, we share a hopeful report on school phone policies, and then help out a mom who has discovered some disturbing group chat conversations o...
How to Put More Joy into the Start of This School Year
We often think of summer as fun time (understandably) and the start of school as back to work. But can’t we take some of that joy into the fall? What small but impactful things can you do as a family to cultivate joy even as ...
Parenting Toddlers and Planting the Seeds of Emotional Regulation
In this episode, we’re talking toddlers. Based on a listener request, Lynn describes how to start early teaching flexibility, emotional management, and connection. We address how technology impacts them…and what parents of li...
We Need To Support School Bans On Phones (Even If Your Anxiety Won’t)
Schools have figured out that smart phones are a distraction to learning…again. After several years of virtually no enforcement, bell-to-bell policies are being introduced. And although adults will agree in principle, how wil...
Managing the Moody People In Your Family (Even If It Is You)
“He is so moody!” says almost every parent as their child moves through the tween and teen years. Managing one’s moods is a key skill for young people to learn, and (as usual) modeling matters. How do we help our kids navigat...
The Best Way to Ask Your Kids "How Was Your Day?"
When we reunite with our kids at the end of the day, we’re often full of questions and curiosity. How was your day? Did you like your lunch? How’d that geometry test go? But genuine interest can sometimes turn into unsatisfyi...