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

13 October 2025

Discussing Death and Loss with Our Kids

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's episode explores one of the most difficult aspects of parenting, discussing death and loss with our children and teenagers. We talk about how to tell our kids about a loss in the family or community and what to expect as they struggle to understand, never mind accept, the loss. Please join us for some insight, guidance, and personal memories as we talk about the challenge of discussing death with our kids.

Please contact us at: beingaparentishardpodcast@gmail.com

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01 October 2025

Understanding Autism

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's episode focuses on understanding autism and how we can best help children, adults, and parents who are touched by this very complicated disorder. We will talk about the different levels of impairment across the autism spectrum, ranging from issues with social awareness, rigid adherence to routines, and communication difficulties to intellectual impairment and chronic self-injurious behavior, Perhaps most importantly, we will look at the scientific information and the misinformation that is flooding our news feeds and help you tease out fact from fiction. Please join us!

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18 September 2025

What I Wish I Knew Then

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's podcast, "What I Wish I Knew Then" focuses on personal and professional insights about the challenges of parenting that one only realizes in hindsight. Whether it's about the sleepless nights of our child's infancy, the stress of managing temper tantrums and busy schedules, or the pain of our adolescent's age-appropriate rejection of us-we eventually realize that none of this lasts forever and some of it, we might just miss. Please join us for the humor and guidance that we hope emerges, as we look back and think, "Wow! I wish I knew that then"

Please contact us at: beingaparentishardpodcast@gamil.com

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03 September 2025

Back to School Anxieties: Theirs and Ours

Welcome to Being aParent is Hard! This episode tackles the timely topic of back to school anxiety, for our kids and for us as parents. Whether the structure of the school year can't come fast enough or you are mourning the end of summer, the start of the school year always comes with a flurry of anxiety. Children often have anxiety around separation and social issues. Teenagers deal with anxiety connected to social issues, academic performance, and the social/developmental challenges around sexuality, substance use, and the long process of planning for college. As parents, we are anxious about anything that jeopardizes the happiness and well-being of our kids. And we have our own competitive anxieties, relationship stressors, and often, worries about our own parents. There's a lot to cover. Please join us!

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15 July 2025

The Dangers of Teenage Gambling

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! In this episode, our special guest Patrick Viviano discusses the dangers and warning signs of problematic gambling among our adolescents.. Video games, sports betting, online gambling and more, all tempt our kids--sometimes leading them into a dangerous and all-consuming addiction. Please join us for a close-up look at adolescent gambling and a discussion about warning signs and what parents can do when they are concerned.

beingaparentishardpodcast@gmail.com.

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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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