The Most Crucial Part Of Your Child's Development with Kissing Spot Author Shirley Gutkowski
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
Release Date: 02/14/2025
How To Get Restful Sleep for the Whole Family with Dr Funke Brown
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
One of the biggest stressors for parents is helping their child get to sleep and stay asleep. Bedtime can be a real battle for parents at times and today’s guest is here to help alleviate that by looking for root causes and also how you parents can help relieve your sleep issues as well. When the whole family sleeps well, things go better. In this episode, she'll talk about sleep apnea - yes, even for kids - which includes snoring, and mouthbreathing, and how sleep is not a "passive process" like we might think, involving hormones, the immune system and even memories that are...
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Everything You Need To Know About Starting Baby On Solids with Catherine Callahan
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
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4 Keys to Health & Happiness from Quantum Human Author Dr Brian Clement
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
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Your Toddler Instruction Manual from Toddlers Made Easy Author & Pediatrician Dr Cathryn Tobin
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
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Tooth Fairy Finances: How to Raise Financially-Savvy Children with Deana Healy from Ameriprise
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
Teaching kids the value of money and about finances can be a challenge but our expert guest today has some many great ways to help with that. Some of what you’ll hear in this mini episode includes: What is the average payout from the Tooth Fairy? How can parents raise financially savvy children? How can parents take control of their finances? Where can we go for more information? From prioritizing college tuition to choosing how to compensate their children, a new study from Ameriprise reveals the financial pressures parents are facing to provide their children with the best life...
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How Your Spice Cabinet Is Filled With Healing With Jaya Jaya Myra
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
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The Biopsychology of Your Smile with Dr Anjali Rajpal
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
Your smile is connected to your whole body image – when you worry about your smile, your whole body reflects this. Today’s guest is going to tell us all about that connection. In this episode, you’ll hear more about: What is so bad about having an acid-based diet and how to switch to more alkaline-based Why a wide palate is so important in your mouth What’s the connection between your smile and your emotional health Dr. Anjali Rajpal has a background in painting and sculpture and brings the same artistic skills into...
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Decoding the Gut Brain Connection: Why the Gut Brain Connection is Crucial with Dr Christine Bishara
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
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How to Talk To Your Kids About P*rn And The Much Better Alternative with Greta Eskridge
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
"It was clear to me that parents, especially moms, weren't opposed to talking to their kids about p*rn*graphy. Or listening to me talk about it. But they wanted guidance, resources, help and hope. They wanted someone on their team. I was ready to step up and be that person." -- Greta Eskridge This episode is tough but absolutely essential listening for parents of kids of all ages. The unfortunate reality is that our kids will be exposed to horrible things that we don't want them to see and we need to know what to do. Author, speaking, podcaster and mom Greta Eskridge wants you to be...
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Expert Travel Tips and Ways to Leverage Loyalty Programs with Virgin Red's Andrea Burchett
The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast
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info_outlineThis episode could change your life - I don't think I've ever said that about one of our episodes before! What if knowing a little more about your child's face (or even your own) could change how you approach all the challenges you or your child may be having from snoring or sleep apnea to ADHD? And it all starts BEFORE your baby is born!
Shirley Gutkowski is a grandma of three, mom of five and wife of going on 50 years! She has all her own hair, stopped coloring it a year ago and is the owner of Primal Air a company that helps people get their face to work right.
She is also the author of the first pre parenting book focused on development of the face. More Than a Kissing Spot: Your New Baby's Face is a simple and deep dive into all the things people need to know about the mouth and tongue before they are exhausted parents. www.primalair.com/kissing-spot
Biologists say that human babies are born about seven months early as compared to other mammals. Human babies are born earlier because of their head size; they’d never make it out at all if they lived in the womb for 16 months. Because of this early exit babies are extremely defenseless. All they have is their cuteness and crying to do everything necessary to get their needs met. It’s up to the “hard wiring” of maternal instinct to take over for the rest, including making sure the baby is breathing through their nose.
Shirley's book, More than a Kissing Spot: Your New Baby’s Face is the most important child development book written to date. Written for soon to be parents, it takes the mystery out of one of the most unusual organs in body, the tongue. The tongue is the most important driver of facial development, and rarely mentioned in discussions of the face.
You're going to love this show - she's a hoot and full of amazing information you do not want to miss one minute of this episode - Enjoy the show!
Check out Shirley's website at www.primalair.com/kissing-spot
Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH
Shirley Gutkowski is a practicing orofacial myofunctional therapist and Buteyko breathing educator practicing in Sun Prairie, WI. Since she was taught by world-renowned (OMT) expert Joy Moeller and breathing retraining based on Buteyko Breathing Retraining techniques taught by world-renowned Buteyko expert Patrick McKeown. She is nationally known as an author and international speaker. As America's Dental Hygienist her passion for prevention is practically legendary. She is seeing referral patients in her specialty practice on OMT and breathing retraining.
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