Being A Parent Is Hard!

Being a Parent is Hard! As clinical psychologists working with children, teens, and parents, we are here to make a difficult job just a little easier. Come behind the closed door of the psychotherapy office as we offer insights, hands-on tools, and unique strategies to help you better understand and support your children. Focusing on the challenges of normal development and the more serious concerns that parents bring to us every day, we will discuss issues such as emotional communication, discipline, limit-setting, ADHD, social media, academic pressure, anxiety, bullying, parental disagreements, substance abuse, and more. We will touch on it all. Please join us! Contact us at: beingapersonishardpodcast@gmail.com

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Latest episodes

02 July 2025

The Challenge of Raising Adult Children

Welcome to the new episode of Being a Parent is Hard! "The Challenge of Parenting Young Adults" focuses on our struggles as parents to understand and meet the unique developmental needs of our young adult children. This includes their often painful but appropriate need to separate from us and make their own choices about fundamental issues such as choosing a partner, a career, or even the decision to have children. This is a time when the stakes are high, as important life decisions are being made. As parents, our challenge is to accept our lack of control, while still offering guidance and support to our kids as they change and grow. We hope you can join us!

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09 June 2025

Managing the Emotional Struggles of Being a New Mother (AKA Where Did the Real Me Go and How Do I Get Her Back?)"

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! In this episode, we have a particularly honest talk about the emotional stressors experienced by new mothers. We focus on the issues underlying unspoken questions such as, "Where did the old me go and how do I get myself back?" Or, "Am I a horrible person for sometimes hating my kid?" We share personal stories, including our own experiences of exhaustion, guilt, rage, and more guilt, as mothers of babies and young kids. And we offer our clinical guidance about how to manage these conflicting, upsetting, and very human feelings. We hope you can join us us!

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21 May 2025

Understanding Teenage Substance Use and Substance Abuse

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This episode focuses on teenage drug and alcohol use and how and when it can slip into substance abuse. We talk about how parents can help their teens navigate a social landscape that often includes drugs and alcohol, and manage academic and social pressures that sometimes result in them abusing substances. Tune in for professional guidance and hands-ons strategies offered to help parents with this very dicey topic. We hope you can join us!

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28 April 2025

Managing the Stress of Social Struggles

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! Does your pre-teen or teen struggle socially? Are they sad or anxious because of difficulties they are having fitting in with peers? In this episode, we focus on understanding the different types of social struggles that our kids experience, including the difficulties that pre-teens and teens with ADHD, learning disabilities, and anxiety disorders may have. We offer hands-on guidance as to how best to help your kids when they are having trouble fitting in with their peers and managing social situations. We hope you can join us!

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15 April 2025

Dating, Curfews and Other Dicey Topics

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This episode focuses on helping parents survive the storm of adolescence by focusing on limit-setting around curfews, dating and other tricky topics. We share stories from our lives and our offices and offer hands-on guidance around limit-setting that focuses on your values rather than your anxiety. We discuss questions such as when to allow your teen to go into the city with friends, how to set an appropriate curfew and manage the inevitable curfew violations, and how to respond to your teen's alcohol and drug use when they are out with friends. Please join us!

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24 March 2025

Understanding Disordered Eating in Children and Adolescents

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! Pediatrician Dr. Maggie Chalson joins us in this episode to discuss disordered eating in children and teenagers. Problems such as a distorted body image, feelings of self-hate related to one’s appearance, restricting food intake, overeating, and full-blown eating disorders all plague today’s children and adolescents. Social media and many parents’ preoccupation with their own weight and appearance all serve to stress and pressure our kids. Dr. Chalson shares stories from her pediatric practice and offers valuable insights and strategies to identify, understand and address disordered eating. Please join us! We can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast.

beingaparentishardpodcast@gmail.com

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