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Banning smartphones? How can parents respond to the mental health crisis in our young people?

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  • 14/05/2024
Banning smartphones? Setting age restrictions for social media? How can parents respond to the mental health crisis in our young people and the link to smartphone use?
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New book: Parenting with Clarity

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  • 30/04/2024
Parenting with Clarity: a new book that is a companion to Parent Hope programs.
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Parent Hope Project for Grandparents

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  • 19/09/2023
How can Grandparents best support their children and grandchildren? Dr Jenny Brown shares some family systems principles for how grandparents can be a resource to their children and grandchildren.
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Parents know they play a part in their children’s struggles – they don’t want more guilt, but do want to play an essential role in a solution

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  • 06/09/2023
The last thing a struggling child’s parent wants is more guilt triggers that compound their sense of helplessness.
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How the worry cycle plays out in schools

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  • 28/06/2023
Levels of diagnosis for behavioural and learning difficulties are incredibly high, often with 50% of kids on specialised learning plans. How can schools keep up with this demand? Is the worry cycle contributing to this phenomenon in schools?
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Time to De-medicalise Children’s Mental Health

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  • 15/05/2023
What is the effect of parents representing themselves to their children instead of trying to fix or change their children? A parent’s connection is especially relevant when helping children navigate their screens. Parents can have regular, curious conversations with their children about what is safe and healthy online and what is dangerous and unhealthy.
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Getting out from under the burden of Parenting Guilt

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  • 03/02/2023
A parent asks: Hi, would you be prepared to share your view on the parent guilt I’m struggling with? It is so very hard for parents – mothers, in particular, not to feel burdened by guilt. How can the guilt be redirected to being a curious observer – to see there are things to discover that are in a parent’s control that can gradually make a difference?
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Cultivating Good Conversations about Screen Issues

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  • 11/01/2023
What is the effect of parents representing themselves to their children instead of trying to fix or change their children? A parent’s connection is especially relevant when helping children navigate their screens. Parents can have regular, curious conversations with their children about what is safe and healthy online and what is dangerous and unhealthy.
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Learning to tolerate a child experiencing the stress of transitions

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  • 14/12/2022
One of the most challenging aspects of parenting is dealing with stirred-up emotions when we see a child challenged to adjust to a new situation. How a parent responds to a child’s transition significantly influences how they cope. A parent can best help when working to be a calm presence.
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Toddler tantrums and reducing the frustration of parenting

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  • 02/12/2022
“Making small changes, including parenting by my principles, holding these boundaries and speaking from “I” statements, have reduced my frustration and the exhaustion of toddler battles.” Vicki Wilkins, Parent Hope Project, Communities Coordinator
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Can you have too much parenting information?

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  • 30/11/2022
Guest mini blog – Katie Small counselling. “What all this input has done has actually muddied the waters & prevented me from developing my very own thinking.”
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When Tantrums are also Disobedience

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  • 23/11/2022
A parent listening to the Parent Hope podcast asks: What about clearly defiant tantrums rather than just a child struggling to delay gratification? Any ideas on how best a parent can be a resource?
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Can Young Children Begin to Self-Regulate?

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  • 16/11/2022
Self-regulation and the capacity to delay gratification starts in infancy.

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Co-regulation or Self-regulation in Parenting

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  • 01/07/2024
In this episode the tables are turned! Last week’s guest, Michelle Varcoe, interviews Dr Jenny Brown to discuss: To hear more about Michelle go to Season 2 Episode 4 or see links below. About Dr Jenny Brown:Dr Jenny Brown has over 35 years of clinical experience in child, couple, and family health. Her primary clinical…
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Marriage and Parenting – It Takes More Than Love

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  • 14/05/2024
In today’s episode, Jenny will discuss Marriage and Parenting with a seasoned family therapist, author, Father and Husband, Arum Nadigel. With a special emphasis on Dads, they will explore what it takes to keep a marriage intact through the stresses and strains of the parenting years?  They discuss big questions Like:   Finishing with some…
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How parents can partner with schools to increase student and family confidence

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  • 05/03/2024
Episode Transcript In this Episode of the Parent Hope Podcast Jenny Brown  explores  “How parents can partner with schools to increase student and family confidence” with Robin Shultz. What makes for a positive partnership between parents and schools?What can get in the way of this?How can parents best deal with worries about how their child…
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Parents Connecting with Their Adolescents

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  • 06/11/2023
Join Jenny as she asks Marie Vakakis what she has learned from her  young clients about their relationships with their parents. Parents connecting with their adolescents will explore questions like: How can parents best connect with a seemingly shut-off teen and How not to be intimidated or overwhelmed by the dramatic tech revolution – do…
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Grandparenting Relationships

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  • 11/10/2023
In this Episode of the Parent Hope Podcast Jenny Brown  explores Grandparenting with Selden Dunbar Illick.  They discuss what makes for flourishing “grandparenting relationships”, with adult children, in-laws, grandchildren and the grandparenting partner if relevant).  With a Family Systems Lens in view they discuss the common pitfalls in these relationships, for example triangles. They will…
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Parenting with a Backdrop of Trauma and Adversity – How this affects building confidence in parenting

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  • 06/09/2023
In this episode Jenny talks with Dr Linda Mackay on parenting with a backdrop of trauma and adversity and how this affects building confidence in parenting. Linda MacKay is an accredited psychotherapist & counsellor, who practices in Mudgee, Blaxland and offers online sessions. She is also a lecturer, trainer, and supervisor, with degrees and qualifications…
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When Parents Undermine Each Other

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  • 10/08/2023
This podcast explores a common tension between parents about how each responds to a struggling child. One parent reacts with more nurturing and the other with more firmness. Each feels critical about the other’s management of one of their children.   Amber McPherson, Programs Coordinator at the Parent Hope Project interviews Dr Jenny Brown about parent-style tensions….
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Is there such a thing as a calm parent?

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  • 04/07/2023
In this episode Jenny discusses with Dr Kathleen Smith the challenges and opportunities for parents managing fears and anxieties. What are the challenges of managing anxiety about our kids? What are the opportunities and benefits of parents working on managing their fears?  Kathleen Smith is a licensed therapist and mental health writer who lives in Washington,…
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Parents Becoming Good Observers of Themselves

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  • 30/06/2023
In this episode, Jenny Brown will be in discussion with Lauren Errington sharing stories of working with parents who are worried about 1 or more of their children. Lauren is the Executive Director of the Family Systems Institute Sydney. She also lectures at Charles Sturt University and has a clinical practice at the Family Systems…
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Parenting Courses – Are they worth the effort? Lessons from an experienced Community Parent Educator

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  • 12/12/2023
In this episode, we will discuss parenting courses with a family skills community educator. We’ll explore what parents get out of carving out time for parenting courses – and are all parenting courses the same?          How can parents get a confidence boost from accessing a parenting course?   Steve will share…
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Staying Connected When Emotions Run High

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  • 25/05/2023
In this episode, Jenny Brown interviews renowned Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr Annemaree Bickerton about her work supporting parents managing their child or adolescent’s strong, and often dangerous, emotions and behaviours.  Listen to how parents can be a lighthouse for children in stormy times. They listen rather than fix and allow the child to learn…
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Raising Kids Who Care – What is Within a Parent’s Influence?

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  • 25/05/2023
In this podcast, Jenny Brown interviews Susy Lee, prize-winning author, speaker, and educator. They discuss Susy’s prize-winning book ‘Raising Kids Who Care: Practical Conversations for Exploring Stuff That Matters, Together’. Susy writes:‘In our complex world, we need to be aware of looming pitfalls and be intentional in helping kids navigate their way to compassion and…
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Young Adults – The Challenges of Launching

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  • 22/02/2023
Parenting doesn’t end when a child leaves school. In fact, parenting can become even more complex with young adults, especially if they are struggling to manage adult responsibilities. In this podcast, Dr Jenny Brown talks about ways parents can be a resource to a young adult child who is navigating an increasingly complicated and demanding…
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Special Needs Children – nurturing capacity even when limited. 

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  • 01/02/2023
In this podcast, Jenny Brown explores the challenges of parenting Special Needs children – neurodiverse kids or children with a biological impairment of some kind. She interviews Nicole Clarke, who is both a mother of a child with Autism and a school counsellor.  It is helpful to consider if the same principles of working on…
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Adolescents – independence on steroids

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  • 11/01/2023
Adolescents present unique challenges for parents. For example, the reactive push for independence can be triggering for parents. In this podcast, Jenny reveals how parent efforts to correct behaviours can inadvertently reinforce a conflict cycle that can fuel a teen’s physiological reward system: (sensation seeking). An overview of adolescent brain development makes sense of this…
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Pre- teens – Busy Parent, School Challenges and Screen Time

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  • 11/01/2023
In this podcast, Jenny talks about the pre-teenage phase, parents’ worries about school performance, and the impacts of excessive screen time. How can parents respond to these issues without an anxious worry focus? What is the effect of parents representing themselves to their children instead of trying to fix or change their children? You will…
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The early school years – dealing with separations

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  • 17/11/2022
This is the 2nd in the series: Parenting through stages of development ‘Today’s podcast discusses parenting in the early school years. In particular, how parent’s managed themselves with a shy child. The interactions presented highlight a child’s separation anxiety in the context of reluctance to attend school. The fist interaction reveals the familiar worry cycle…
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Toddler in meltdown – The first push for independence

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  • 16/11/2022
This is the 1st in the series: Parenting through stages of development ‘Today on the podcast, we’ll be discussing parenting toddlers Toddler in meltdown- The first push for independence. In this series Dr Jenny Brown conveys how each phase of a child’s development presents parents with opportunities to step back and consider their part in…
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How parents, educators and helping professionals can contribute to children’s flourishing

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  • 09/12/2019
This talk was presented by Dr Jenny Brown in Dec 2018 at the school presentation day for PLC Sydney. It was delivered at the Sydney Opera House. Jenny reflects on how flourishing emerges from solid internal character, to connect genuinely with others and to self-regulate and self-direct.  She proposes that the more parents and other…

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