Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We are thankful for the opportunity to work with you and your families. If you want to better understand your child's learning and development this fall, contact us online about making an appointment.
Parent Footprint with Dr. Dan: New Podcasts on Parenting an ADHD Child, Big Emotions, and How to Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself
Dr. Dan spoke with more new guests this month, including ADHD expert Dr. Sharon Saline, author Alyssa Blask Campbell, and relationship coach Dr. Morgan Cutlip. One new bonus episode was also posted, discussing answers to listener questions.
What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew with Dr. Sharon Saline
Dr. Dan interviews Sharon Saline, award-winning author and licensed clinical psychologist, about parenting an ADHD child.
Dr. Saline is a top expert on ADHD, anxiety, learning differences and mental health challenges and their impact on school and family dynamics. Her unique perspective assists her in guiding families as they navigate from the confusing maze of diagnoses and conflict to successful interventions and connections.
On this episode, Dr. Dan and Alyssa discuss why we need to learn how to raise confident kids who feel comfortable in expressing their tears, anger, fears and fury. We need to raise emotionally intelligent children so that they can become emotionally intelligent adults.
Alyssa Blask Campbell is CEO of SeedandSew.org for parents, caregivers, and teachers. Her podcast, “Voices of Your Village,” is a gathering place for parents, caregivers, teachers, and experts, creating a modern parenting village.
Listener Questions About Journaling, Playdates, Candy, and How to Talk to Our Kids About Current Events
Released on Halloween, this is the October Sitting Down with Dr. Dan bonus episode. Host Dr. Dan and longtime podcast producer Phil Rossi answer listener questions about many different topics today including: journaling and our children, seasonal changes and sensory kids, playdates and screens, and candy, candy, candy. In addition, on a serious note, Dr. Dan addresses current world events and how to talk to our children about what’s happening in Israel.
Email your parenting questions to podcast@drdanpeters.com or DM us on social media. We read every question and we want to consider yours for a future bonus episode.
Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself with Dr. Morgan Cutlip
Dr. Dan speaks to Dr. Morgan Cutlip about how we can care for ourselves without neglecting our kids' needs – and without feeling overwhelmed by guilt or succumbing to the pressure to always be perfect. Many moms (and parents) love parenting but they also feel burned out, lost in the shuffle, and like they don’t have any time. Dr. Cutlip helps moms discover a new approach to motherhood that equips them with a practical plan to feel more aligned with the motherhood journey they have always imagined.
Summit Center is pleased to welcome licensed psychologist Dr. Loraine Van Tuyl to our Walnut Creek office, where she provides therapy services to 2e, neurodivergent, and gifted children, adolescents, and adults.
Dr. Van Tuyl offers children and teens an inviting and safe space to explore bewildering and overwhelming pressures, needs, and emotions through the use of expressive arts, journaling, and play and sandtray therapies. In her work with adults, she integrates conventional talk therapy with psychoeducation, neuroscience research, guided mind-body wisdom techniques, and meditative practices to enhance their sense of wellbeing, confidence, and intuitive resilience.
Clients, especially those who are “old souls,” have found Dr. Van Tuyl’s introspective and strength-based methods helpful in reducing social/performance anxiety, perfectionism, low self-esteem, and cognitive distortions.
College anxiety did not exist when I was in school—or at least I don’t remember it... I remember looking at some colleges, wanting to go to some more than others, then choosing one. The college process was just part of growing up and not more stressful or pronounced than other developmental phases.
Now? I have clients in 2nd grade telling me they are going to Stanford or UC Berkeley. I listen to high school students who have GPAs of 4.2-4.6 tell me how stressed, anxious, and depressed they are and weary of their future. I talk to parents daily about their worries that their child is not going to get into a “good” school.
“If you grow up with a neurodivergent brain in this neurotypical world, you already receive a lot of information throughout your childhood… about the ways you are missing the mark, that you are different. The information that you receive from the universe about that – school, parents – generally doesn’t feel very positive. It’s about what you are doing wrong.
“What happens is that people, who I call outside-the-box thinkers, then develop a feeling of ‘oh my goodness when is the next time that I am going to mess up’... There is kind of vigilance that starts to occur… which we see in anxiety. And this is part of why anxiety rates among people with ADHD are so high, 50% for adults and a minimum of 34% for kids.”
—Dr. Sharon Saline on Parent Footprint with Dr. Dan