Why Your Daughter's Depression Makes Perfect Sense
Release Date: 02/12/2023
I Don’t Want To Live Here Anymore
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
In this episode, Neil responds to a Mom struggling with what went wrong and what to do now that her daughter has moved out and is living with her grandmother. *** Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: 📘 Buy the book: 👉 Take the online course: 📬 Sign up for my weekly newsletter: Get started and take the first step toward a thriving family life. ✨ Visit for more resources including free assessments, guides, and plenty of content on parenting teenagers.
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Teach Your Teen Impulse Control - Part 2
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In this episode, Neil follows where he responds to parents struggling with their young teenager’s lack of impulse control. In this episode, Neil offers a second way to help their teenager improve and he demonstrates how to go about it. *** Hi, I'm Neil D. Brown, psychotherapist, author, and podcaster. I've evolved a model for parents of teenagers with behavior issues. Learn more about my online course and book titled Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle. 👉 Take the online course: 📘 Buy the book: 📬 Sign up for my weekly Healthy Family Connections newsletter: Get started and...
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Teach Your Teen Impulse Control - Part 1
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
In this episode, Neil responds to parents struggling with their young teenager’s lack of impulse control. Neil offers a positive way to help their teenager improve and demonstrates how to go about it. This is the first of 2 podcasts on this topic. *** Hi, I'm Neil D. Brown, psychotherapist, author, and podcaster. I've evolved a model for parents of teenagers with behavior issues. Learn more about my online course and book titled Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle. 👉 Take the online course: neildbrown.com/parent-teen-control-battle-course 📘 Buy the book: neildbrown.com/books 📬...
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Getting Earned Privileges Right
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Do you find yourself in a cycle of giving and taking away privileges to get your teenager to simply do their work? These parents do and Neil helps them understand how to use the shift from giving kids Consequences to giving them Earned Privileges, why it works and how to apply it in real life. We talk about that and a whole lot more on this week’s podcast, Getting Earned Privileges Right. *** Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: 📘 Buy the book: 👉 Take the online...
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Start But Don't Stop With Empathy
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In this podcast Neil responds to a mother struggling to get her young adult daughter who suffers from OCD moving. This mom wants to know if she’s cruel for wanting her daughter to challenge herself more. Neil offers this parent a way to communicate with her daughter and end the stalemate in their relationship. Hi, I'm Neil D. Brown, psychotherapist, author, and podcaster. I've evolved a model for parents of teenagers with behavior issues. Learn more about my online course and book titled Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle. 👉 Take the online course: 📘 Buy the book: 📬 Sign up...
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Try Going on Strike: ADHD Youth and Managing Responsiblities
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
In this episode Neil responds to parents who are losing control of their ADHD 15 year old son. Neil highlights the problem of parents doing all the work to help their son succeed, while their son is putting his effort into resistance. Neil explains the critical function in adolescence of youth taking onus for their responsibilities and offers these parents a surprising strategy to shift motivation for responsibilities from them to their son. Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: More resources from Neil ...
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Stuck in the Middle
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
In this episode Neil responds to a dad who explains that his wife and daughter fight constantly. His question is whether it’s better to push their 14 year old daughter to do better and participate in activities as his wife promotes, or to allow their daughter to make her own decisions as long as she’s doing well enough as he favors. Listen to Neil’s surprise answer in this relaunch of the Healthy Family Connections Podcast. Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: 📘 Buy the book: 👉 Take the online...
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Some Solutions Only Double Down on the Problem
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In this podcast, Neil takes issue with National Columnist Amy Dickinson’s advice to a mother whose daughter is intentionally screwing up her chores to get her mother to quit assigning them to her. Neil explains how ramping up consequences can unwittingly only support a Control Battle while missing the opportunity for real change. Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: More resources from Neil 📘 Buy the book: 👉 Take the online course: 📬 Sign up for my weekly newsletter: Get started and...
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My Son Thinks Shoplifting Is Okay
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In this episode, Neil responds to a Mom whose young teen son reports that shoplifting is okay, as long as it’s from large corporate stores. Neil helps this family unify their approach to include both positivity and accountability. Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: http://neildbrown.com/submit
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Intense Positivity Is Required
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
Episode Description: In this podcast, Neil and Robin respond to a Caroyln Hax column in which a desperate mom wants advice for dealing with her hostile 17 year old son. Mom is divorced and her son has been living mostly with his father, who just passed away. Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: http://neildbrown.com/submit
info_outlineIn this podcast, Neil and Robin respond to a question from Patricia, whose daughter is isolating more and more and seems to possibly be depressed. Neil provides insight into what may be happening and a path for getting the right kind of help for this family.
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