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Episode 67: Scott Schimmel on When Bad Things Happen to Good Parents
Bad things happen to good parents- maybe there's a conflict, a kid who forgets their homework, your kid is getting picked on by friends, or doesn't make the team that they were dreaming of. We call these things The...
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Episode 66: Scott Schimmel on The Critical Shifts in Adolescence
Adolescents undergo significant shifts as they transition into adulthood, including physical, cognitive, and emotional changes. These changes include the development of the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain...
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Episode 65: Scott Schimmel on Talking About the Good Life
The YouSchool podcast episode entitled âHow to Help Your Kids Find a Good Lifeâ starts with Scott Schimmelâs message about the deep anxiety of parents concerning whether their kids will live a good life. As teenagers...
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Episode 64: Scott Schimmel on In Case of Emergency! The Parent Challenge COACH
As parents, barely a day goes by without an urgent moment to attend to some version of a crisis for our kids. Thereâs no escaping it. Our lives are intertwined with theirs, and we get pushed and pulled constantly....
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Episode 63: Scott Schimmel on Every Kid Needs Validation
Kids need to be validated by their peers and the adults in their lives. They need a genuine sense of others interested in them, their ideas, interests, strengths, weaknesses, or faults. Developmentally, adolescence is...
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Episode 62: Scott Schimmel on Life Support- The Essential Relationships Every Kid Needs
Itâs no secret that human beings are relational creatures. But as loneliness is on the rise and sits at the epicenter of a mental health crisis; still not enough attention is paid to the importance of relationships...
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Episode 61: Scott Schimmel on Teaching Kids the Wisdom of their Emotions
Psychological discomfort is an inevitable part of life. But it's tempting to believe what our culture likes to tell us from every angle: "If you feel badâdon't! Avoid it, escape it, numb it, cut it out, or cut it...
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Episode 60: Scott Schimmel on Every Kid Needs Grief Skills
Loss is an inevitable part of life. Sometimes it comes in the form of acute painâlike the loss of a loved one, a natural disaster, or an accident. Other times it can come through losing something you had hoped...
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Episode 59: Scott Schimmel on Every Kid Needs a Struggle
My struggle is what shaped me. Thatâs a timeless truth for me, and Iâm sure it is true in your life, too. And itâs also true for our kids. So if struggling is so formative, then why do we protect our kids from it? On...
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Episode 58: Scott Schimmel on the Essential Experiences Every Kid Needs
Every kid needs to have their own version of formative experiences. But the question is, which ones? What are the essential experiences every kid needs? Hereâs a starting point: Failure: every kid ought to have failed...
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Episode 57: Scott Schimmel on Modeling Emotional Intelligence
As weâve worked with educators and parents over the past decade, our most common discussion is about their hopes and dreams for their kids' futures. Iâm always curious to hear them articulate what they hope their kids...
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Episode 56: Scott Schimmel on the Heroâs Journey
The Heroâs Journey is one of the most important and helpful tools in working with kids. Rather than just giving them the support they need to be successful in school and careers, we want to give them the support they...
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