Raising Kids Who Are Really Ready For College Isn’t What You Think

Trailer: Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: Lynn Lyons is one of the most sought after experts on anxiety in parents and children. Flusterclux offers authentic, compassionate straight talk for parents to connect, reflect, and feel prepared to support their family’s mental health with the stresses of our new normal. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Why We Must Flatten Our Emotional Curve For Our Kids: Parents must attempt to manage their emotions in front of their kids. We talk about how to handle powerful moments of anger and panic in an an ideal way as well as how to conclude unintentional emotional outbursts in a positive way to model emotional literacy for your kids. We also talk about the trap of unhealthy reassurance. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Parenting, Perfectionism, and Anxiety: How We Reward Something Toxic: Perfectionism and anxiety create a torture chamber we don't want to model for kids. When we reward excellence, how do we know when it becomes toxic? We explain how a parents can check their own behaviors as well as what to look for and say to their kids. Lynn answers a listener question from a mom whose daughter has extreme anxiety about shots and vaccines. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Listeners Ask: Siblings Fighting: Don't Say Boys Will Be Boys: There is a right way for parents to handle siblings fighting. Here are strategies from Lynn Lyons to promote empathy and avoid teaching victimization and when parents should intervene and when they should stay out of it. Another listener who's a working mom with kids under 5 feels completely tapped out. She asks Lynn ways to feel less emotionally reactive with her kids at home. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Helicopter Parents: Strategies for Landing: Helicopter parenting is a loaded label that some parents either wear with pride or are quick to deny. When we hover out of concern, what does that do to our children? While we crowd in our homes during lockdown, it is a good time to ask yourself if you give your kids the space they need for positive development. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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How Family Laughter And Silliness Are Our Families' Most Powerful Tonics: In this episode we talk about how critical it is in a family to have levity for mental health. Silliness has never been a more a critical parenting tool than in 2020. Here's how to use it to make manage your anxiety and make your kids feel safe. And we answer a listener question about remote learning with high school students at home. How much do you hover? How do you get your own work done? Check out the answers! by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Listeners Ask: Mom Guilt, Burnout, and School Stress: Mom guilt, burnout, and stress over remote learning has most parents exhausted these days. Hear psychotherapist Lynn Lyons discuss ways to manage these pandemic parenting stresses. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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When a family experiences a traumatic event together & If your child says "nobody likes me": When a family experiences a traumatic event together, how can they heal? What do you say when your child says "Nobody likes me." And how do you teach your child to be more flexible? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Managing Disappointment: When FOMO Becomes Just MO: With all of our graduation, birthday, and family plans cancelled, we must still acknowledge them. We find silver linings in ways to teach our kids critical life skills in adaptability and managing disappointment. We talk about why to put those perfection issues on the brakes and how to focus on creativity, silliness, and connection. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Stuck-In-Home Parenting: We have a new category of parenting, the stuck-in-the-house parent. Anxiety expert Lynn Lyons explains why we feel like we are riding a new emotional rollercoaster, and why we feel so exhausted, as our brains are working overtime to absorb our new world conditions. Full transcript available on our website. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Unpacking Your Family's Baggage And Starting Fresh With Your Kids: What did you learn about handling anger, sadness, and worry as a child from your family? How does that affect your parenting? We unpack our family baggage in this episode to see how we can stop dysfunctional generational patterns and give our kids the space for healthy feelings. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Welcome to Flusterclux: Fix Anxiety With Lynn Lyons LICSW: Parenting isn't easy in the best of circumstances, and 2020 will challenge every parent to support the emotional health of their kids and themselves. Lynn Lyons, therapist, author, and speaker is one of the world's experts on helping parents, kids, and teens manage anxiety. She talks with co-host and sister-in-law Robin Hutson in a weekly podcast free of psychobabble and full of concrete advice. Flusterclux represents that feeling of overwhelm and tells parents how to better manage their worry and big feelings like anger and sadness so that they are modeling healthy emotional awareness. In each episode, Lynn answers listener questions and gives parents concrete strategies for developing the traits that are their kids' best defenses against anxiety and depression later in life: flexibility, resilience, autonomy, and problem solving. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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High Anxiety & Good Grades: Our Toxic Achievement Culture: We end Season 2 with a bang of an episode. Finishing off our conversation about preventing anxiety in our kids, we tackle the toxicity of our achievement culture. It’s so normalized it’s invisible to us. And we answer a listener question about how to develop a strong work ethic in her 8 year old twins. Lynn has a must hear answer for kids of any age. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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A Family Summer Guide To 2020: Social Distancing Fun: Summer 2020 is unlike any other. In this podcast we help parents think through assessing reasonable risks, managing disappointment around missed summer rituals, and reexamining boredom with a positive lens. We also provide more than 40 ideas of summer activities— Inside, Outside, Virtual, and Local as well as ingenious listener hacks to Stay Connected With Friends by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Listeners Ask: Teens And Peer Pressure: When your teenagers start testing you with new language and behaviors, how do you help them strengthen the skills they need to be more immune to peer pressure and self destructive behavior like cutting? Lynn Lyons answers a listener's question about her 13 year old daughter. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Tough Dynamics At The Holidays: Blended Families and Angry Teens: For some families, holidays bring out their toughest dynamics. How do divorced parents manage a blended holiday putting their kids first? What if you have a house of angry teenagers with one of them recently in crisis? Is it possible to enjoy your holiday at home when all they want to do is fight? On a lighter note, what secrets does Gilligan's Island hold for every quarantined family? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Plan Now for the Next New Normal: When you look around your home, you’ve probably let some things go, as we’ve all been adapting to our new normal. That’s perfectly reasonable. We’ve been in the “just getting by” mode. But there will be a transition back to normal, and how that will happen for your family is worth some thought. Now, we didn’t have time to prepare when we were thrown into this traumatic pandemic, but we can prepare for our journey out. Other topics include how parents can manage their teens who feel angrier and more withdrawn in quarantine. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Back To School Anxiety: Supporting The Social-Emotional Needs of Students and Teacher: In this podcast episode on back to school anxiety, we focus on the social and emotional wellbeing for students and teachers and how parents can help. We take questions for guidance counselors and school administrators about helping everyone in the school building or remote learning. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Regressive Behavior From Toddlers to Teens: What’s Normal: In our next guide to parenting in a pandemic, regressive behavior appears at all stages of development at many different ages. Learn why child regression happens and how to respond to it and why you might be seeing it more commonly now in our quarantine and lockdown culture. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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How to Find A Good Child Therapist For Your Kid's Anxiety: We're a few weeks into the school year, and it's time to do a check in. We'll discuss the best ways parents can support their learners from kindergarten to college. And Lynn answers one of the most frequently asked questions wherever she speaks. How do you find a good child therapist? She'll break it down for you on what to look for and when to say no thanks. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Listeners Ask: Teens & Drinking and Anxiety vs. Intuition: In today’s episode Lynn answers two listener questions. First a mom discovers her 15 year old has been thinking of drinking to manage her stress. What are the conversations parents should be having with their teens around stress, substance abuse and peer pressure?And another mom raised by an anxious parent is trying to break the cycle with her daughters. She asks Lynn how to know when the voices inside her head are generational patterns of worry repeating or intuitive warnings. How does anxiety filter the decisions we make and the information we receive? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Listeners Ask: Meltdowns, Anxiety And Depression in Kids: In this parenting podcast, Lynn Lyons answers listener questions about meltdowns and anxiety and depression kids facing the stresses of 2020. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Confronting White Fragility and Colorblindness: As the world reacts to the Black Lives Matter movement. we discuss how emotional management can help white people handle white fragility and why families should stop the cycle of raising colorblind children. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Hope After A Teen Anxiety and Depression Diagnosis: How to help your child or teen who receives an anxiety or depression diagnosis and avoid the pitfalls that lessen the positive effects of their treatment. We answer a listener question about talking about handling frustration with a child who reacts intensely when things don't go her way. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Co-Parenting In A Pandemic: How to Find A Better Balance: Work. Parenting. Relationships. Remember how elusive the idea of balance used to feel way back in 2019? Now it seems like a downright fantasy. The research shows this pandemic has been disruptive to our families in significant ways. And it's disproportionately impacting women and mothers. It's putting our marriages and relationships to the test. So as we work to support our kids, there are traps we all fall into with our partners and spouses. We're going to talk about learning to ask for help in the right way, dropping defensiveness, reducing resentment, and I'm going to tell you why in how improving your co- parenting will help your kids more than you know. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Reassurance Traps: How to Know When Anxiety Is In Control: Our kids turned to us for reassurance, and anxious kids ask for a lot of it. When we tell them everything will be fine, it feels like the right thing to do in the moment. But is it? How does our well-meaning reassurance interfere with our children developing critical psychological skills? And what should we do instead? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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What I Wish Everyone Knew About Gratitude: We'll hear a lot of hype about gratitude with the holidays coming. We'll go over how gratitude is proven to help you and how you may have been thinking about it all wrong. What are gratitude's powers? And what are its limits? And one listener asks what to do for her usually studious freshman, who's suddenly indifferent to high school and grades this year. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Why Rigidity is the Bellwether of Anxiety Disorders in Children: In our debut episode of Season 2, we discuss our name change from A Mom's Retreat to Flusterclux and what the name means to us and what the podcast is about for new listeners. We talk about the early signs of anxiety parents should be looking for in their kids right now. What is the healthy balance between routine and flexibility that doesn't promote rigidity. Lynn also answers a listener question about a child who gets anxious being on camera during remote learning. She gives the parents the language to support him in adapting. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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Parents: Try These Bedtime Routine Hacks: Bedtime routine and sleep issues are tough. Now add a global pandemic, and no one is getting good sleep. Here's how to improve sleep problems for kids, teens, and parents. Download our free kids' sleep meditation. by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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The Anxiety Vaccine: Can Parents Prevent Anxiety Disorders in their Kids?: While we wait for a vaccine distribution plan to address our global pandemic, there is a mental health crisis happening simultaneously. Our numbers for anxiety were alarming even before 2020, and now, yikes. But there ways parents can promote a skill-based immunization strategy for our family’s mental health. Is there really a vaccine for anxiety? by Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

34 min listen

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