Rnz: It Takes A Village

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  • Duración: 94:56:44
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Sinopsis

Nine to Noon's Kathryn Ryan presents interviews to help navigate modern family life

Episodios

  • "Where's the tat?" - when 5 year olds still get words awry

    05/06/2019 Duración: 19min

    Speech and Language Therapist Christian Wright with more tips and tricks for parents of five year olds with speech sound errors, such at 'tat' for cat, and 'hostible' for hospital.

  • Dads, don't tell your sons to 'toughen up'

    29/05/2019 Duración: 19min

    Aaron Hendry has worked as a youth worker for a number of years and says fathers need to be particularly careful about the messages they give their sons. He says the "get hard" or "toughen up" message is literally killing young Kiwi men, because it's preventing them from seeking help when they're at their most vulnerable.

  • Tips for raising independent kids

    22/05/2019 Duración: 23min

    CEO of Spectrum Education Karen Boyes says the job of mums and dads is to ensure that kids can parent themselves by age 18 - and that one day, they leave home! She says the path towards this starts as early as two years old.

  • Small children processing big feelings

    15/05/2019 Duración: 22min

    Kiwi-born teacher-turned-author of the internationally well-received I Feel Brave book series, Avril McDonald, writes 'little stories about big feelings' for four to seven year olds. Additionally Avril has devised a couple of programmes which have been taken up in schools in New Zealand, to help primary school children learn to deal with difficult emotions like anxiety, and to have empathy for others, in a bid to guard against bullying. Avril tells Kathryn Ryan about the range of tools in her arsenal, which also include videos and this song 'Nothing Like a Good Friend' which encourages children to become more empathetic.

  • Parents worry over lack of time with kids: survey

    08/05/2019 Duración: 17min

    A new survey of 1200 parents around the country finds three quarters are worried they don't spent enough time with their children. Parenting commentator, researcher and educator Nathan Wallis talks to Kathryn about this and other insights from the survey which asked parents about everything from sleep, diet, and digital devices to how much they spend on birthday parties.

  • The argument for adolescence to extend to age 24

    02/05/2019 Duración: 24min

    Susan Sawyer is a Professor of Adolescent Health at the University of Melbourne and a practising paediatrician. She talks to Kathryn about whether the age range for adolescence is too narrowly defined. She believes adolescence should be up to 24 years old .Throughout the world, youth and health agencies differ on the the age group that qualifies as adolescence.

  • How to help chaotic, dreamy, inattentive kids

    17/04/2019 Duración: 21min

    Education and parenting consultant Joseph Driessen talks to Kathryn about how to parent children who struggle with underdeveloped executive skills, and who find living an organised life extremely demanding.

  • Top 5 speech sound errors in 5-year-olds

    10/04/2019 Duración: 26min

    Speech and language therapist Christian Wright discuss the top five speech sound errors in five-year-olds and tips and tricks to fix them.

  • Forget screen time rules

    03/04/2019 Duración: 18min

    Can screen time for kids really be quality time ? Yes! says Jordan Shapiro the author of "The New Childhood: Raising Kids To Thrive In A Connected World".

  • The lasting impacts for children of Christchurch shootings

    27/03/2019 Duración: 17min

    Psychologist and disaster mental health expert Sarb Johal discusses the likely lasting impacts of the Christchurch terror attacks on children and adolescents. How do children and young people who may have viewed the video of the attack process that? What might parents see and why do children sometimes keep their reactions hidden?

  • Helping children cope post Christchurch

    20/03/2019 Duración: 19min

    Nathan Wallis talks with Kathryn about how parents and caregivers can help children cope with the horror of the Christchurch mosque shootings. He says there are simple things to help children move from victimisation feelings linked to trauma, to positive action mode.

  • Angela Hanscom: kids need active play for sensory development

    13/03/2019 Duración: 16min

    Children do best with at least three hours active play every day, according to occupational therapist Angela Hanscom, and the many of today's kids who don't get that are weaker and less able to concentrate than previous generations.

  • Playground Plato? The benefits of teaching kids philosophy

    06/03/2019 Duración: 20min

    Opening up children's minds to the philosophical questions we usually put aside in everyday life can help them learn better, concentrate longer, develop social skills and even minimise bullying, says "community philosopher" Dr Vanya Kovach.

  • Parenting with Karen Tui Boyes

    27/02/2019 Duración: 24min

    CEO of Spectrum Education Karen Tui Boyes on how best to develop your child as a thinker by modelling your own behaviour.

  • Parenting kids who have low self-control

    20/02/2019 Duración: 08min

    The struggles of children who haven't yet developed 'executive skills' - and therefore are prone to being impulsive, chaotic, forgetful and inattentive - can exasperate parents and lead to dysfunction in a family. People need to identify this lack for what it is - a kind of developmental disability that needs some special attention, according to a parenting consultant.

  • Taking back control to beat anxiety

    13/02/2019 Duración: 19min

    What goes on in the anxious mind ? There's been a lot of talk lately about young people feeling overwhelmed, anxious and confused. So what's the best way of getting these feelings under control? Gwendoline Smith, a clinical psychologist and mental health expert, is especially well versed on dealing with youth anxiety. Her latest book on the topic is called The Book of Knowing. She also works closely with the University of Auckland's Faculty of Education to provide guidance to school counsellors and speaks regularly to schools, teachers and counsellors about youth anxiety.

  • The complexity of gender transition in children

    06/02/2019 Duración: 24min

    UK psychotherapist Bob Withers has been in practice for more than 30 years.Late last year an opinion piece he wrote for a British newspaper attracted considerable attention. The headline was - In 20 years we'll look back on the rush to change our children's sex as one of the darkest chapters in medicine. The reaction was swift, support from many quarters, hostility from others. Bob Withers tells Kathryn why he wrote the article.

  • How to love (almost) every parenting minute

    30/01/2019 Duración: 17min

    Want to be a happier parent? KJ Dell'Antonia is the former lead editor of the New York Times Motherlode blog, who over the years has asked and answered plenty of questions about parenting. She says the one she was most intrigued by was 'why isn't it any fun?' She has advice for looking after kids as they grow into their tweens and teens.

  • What to do when sleep is elusive?

    30/01/2019 Duración: 18min

    The summer heat has impacting sleep patterns recently, and with parents trying to get their children back into regular bedtimes compatible with the school year, we're looking at some solutions. Sleep researcher and child psychologist Sarah Blunden says sleep is one of the most challenging issues parents face - from unsettled babies, toddlers changing sleep patterns - and then there are the teenage years and young lives dominated by screen use. Dr Blunden is the founder of the Australian Centre for Education in Sleep, and also directs the Paediatric Sleep Clinic based in Adelaide.

  • Conversations to Help your Teen Through Troubled Times

    19/12/2018 Duración: 24min

    The summer holidays are a time when the family is spending more time together, so how best to have some of those tricky conversations with your teenager. Collett Smart is a psychologist, teacher and parent of three children. She has been working with teenagers for about 20 years and thinks they are brilliant. In her new book, "They'll be Okay: 15 Conversations to Help Your Child Through Troubled Times." she has some tips and tricks to help parents navigate their way positively through the teenage years.

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