How Not to Screw Up Your Kids
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How Not to Screw Up Your Kids
Hello, I'm psychologist and parenting expert Dr Maryhan and this is How Not To Screw Up Your Kids, the podcast for parents, grandparents, educators, and anyone else who wants to be part of a movement to raise confident children who grow up believing in themselves.Follow now for twice weekly episodes...
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Why Your Child Can't Concentrate: Focus, Distraction and ADHD with Professor Sam Wass
If you’ve ever wondered why your child can spend 40 minutes talking about Minecraft but can’t concentrate for four minutes on homework, this episode e...
5 Questions to Ask Your Worried Child Tonight
If your child is anxious, you already know how hard evenings can be. You sit beside them wanting desperately to help, but every time you try to reassu...
When Your Child Won't Stop Worrying
If your child is melting down over homework, asking endless “what if” questions, getting mysterious tummy aches, refusing school, withdrawing from act...
Bucket Empyting: One Thing to Say to Your Son Every Day to Build His Confidence
If you’re raising a boy, you already know this: you can believe in him with your whole heart, and still watch him struggle to believe in himself.
How Not to Screw Up Your Kids - A Podcast for Parents from a Child Psychologist Who Gets You
If your child is melting down, shutting down, refusing school, avoiding sleep, snapping back, or clinging to you because something feels “wrong” but t...
Raising Confident Boys
If you’re raising a boy right now, you already know this: the world he’s growing up in is tougher, louder, and more confusing than ever, and the crack...
When Siblings Are Stuck Together
If your children have been at each other all week, this episode will change everything.
I’m diving into one of the biggest sources of family str...
Why Parenting Feels Harder Than Ever
You don’t need more time with your child. You just need five intentional minutes.
And in this episode, I’ll show you exactly why those tiny mome...
Back-Chat, Boundaries, and What Your Child is Really Trying to Tell You
Back‑chat isn’t your child being “difficult” - it’s a message. And in this episode, I’m going to show you how to finally hear it.
If you’re deal...
The Meals That Carry Us Through Hard Seasons with Helen Hopkins
In this episode, you’ll discover a completely different way to think about feeding your family - one that saves you time, money, stress, and emotional...
Good Parents Doubt Themselves Too
We all have an inner critic. Even us parents.
In today’s episode, I explore one of the most overlooked but powerful ways to lighten your emotion...
Homework: Building Persistence, Resilience & Independence
Hands up if you like homework…
Me neither.
But homework isn’t just a task to be completed. It’s a powerful opportunity to build persistenc...
Bucket Emptying: Living with Parental Guilt
In today’s bucket‑emptying episode, I explore what it really means to live with parental guilt - that ever‑present tug that arrives the moment we beco...
What Every Parent Needs to Know About Siblings
Do you have more than one child?
Are they constantly fighting for your time and energy?
So how do you parent siblings?
In today’s ep...
Bucket Emptying: Does Distraction Tame a Tantrum?
In this episode, I will explain the viral “Where’s Jessica?” distraction trend and discover whether it truly helps your child manage big emotions.
Helping Children Manage Uncertainty
In today’s episode, we will explore how to help your child navigate life’s inevitable uncertainties, from exam results and friendship turbulence to sc...
Bucket Emptying: Foundations to Building Confidence
In today’s bucket-emptying episode, you’ll learn the three essential foundations your child needs before confidence can grow.
If you’ve got a ch...
What I Know for Sure About Raising Confident Kids
Today is my birthday, and it’s become a tradition of mine to reflect on life and what I’ve learned. So this year I’m reflecting in public, on the podc...
5 Powerful Reflection Questions to Build Confidence in Children
I talk a lot about confidence, because it’s super important, and it’s something we all struggle with - yes, even us parents!
But a lack of confi...
What to Say When Your Child Feels Anxious
Anxiety is not a one size fits all thing. It can show up in so many different ways, from school refusal to bedtime worries and everything in between.<...
Good Mum, Not Enough Mum: Why It Still Never Feels Like Enough
Spoiler alert: being a mum is hard.
It’s ok to be a good mum and feel like you’re not enough. You might feel like you can’t tell other mums that...
Why Your Child Won't Listen, and One Thing to Try Tonight
Do you ever feel like you are speaking to a brick wall?
Do your kids sometimes ignore you as if you’re invisible?
Do you feel the frustrat...
Bucket Emptying: After School Meltdowns
After school tantrums are anything but random.
Often, they are a sign that your child has been trying super hard to follow the rules and be on t...
The Manosphere and Raising Boys
From Adolescence to Louis Theroux, the manosphere has become a mainstream talking point, and that’s a good thing!
The manosphere is a term assoc...
Bucket Emptying: 5 Mindset Shifts Before Returning to Work
Returning to work is not easy, especially for new parents.
You’ve probably had an extended time off. Your routine is different, your priorities...
Thriving as a Single Parent
There are many myths about single parent families, and I’m telling you they are not true.
The success, wellbeing and happiness of your child has...
Bucket Emptying: 30 Second Reset
Calm down.
Every parent knows these are the worst two words you can ever say to your child in the midst of a meltdown… and we’ve all learnt the...
The 9 Expectation Changes to Supercharge Success
You have high expectations for your kids. Every parent does, and I get it!
But sometimes we can present those expectations in ways that may not...
Bucket Emptying: Grabbing the Opportunity
The UK government has opened a public consultation on a potential social media ban for under 16 year olds, and this creates a huge opportunity for us....
9 Modelled Bevahiours Boosting Academic Success, Confidence & Friendships
If you have not yet watched American skier Eileen Gu’s interview following her silver medal at the recent Winter Olympics, click the link below, becau...
Bucket Emptying: Parenting in Public
Children should be seen and not heard. Do you agree?
We’ve all heard that expression, and we were all probably told this by our own parents! But...
Managing Emotional Outbursts
Outbursts, tantrums, meltdowns… whatever you call them, they’re not fun!
But your kids are not hardwired to deal with their emotions, it’s a ski...
Bucket Emptying: Pocket Money - 5 Benefits You May Not Have Considered
Should I give my children pocket money?
How much is enough?
Should they have to earn it through chores?
Knowing how much, when, and...
Confidence is on the Decline
Did you know 1 in 3 children have little or no confidence?
Did you know girls are more likely to downplay their confidence?
And did you kn...
Bucket Emptying: Parenting Trends and How They Affect Our Own Parenting
From gentle parenting to FAFO, social media bombards us with content about the latest trends, so how do you really know what works and what doesn’t?
Let's Talk - 5 Ways to Start a Conversation About Mental Health
Mental health is not just a buzz word, and oftentimes it goes hand in hand with physical health. But because we can’t see mental health, as parents it...
Bucket Emptying: Valuing Children - 5 Ways to Build a Sense of Belonging
A sense of belonging is a basic human need. Without it can lead to loneliness, depression and many other mental and physical health issues.
So t...
Navigating Exam Stress
From the 8 Plus to A-Levels, exams can be a stressful experience… often as much for you, the parent, as the kids.
You want the best for them, an...
A new perspective on emotional co-regulation
In this bucket emptying episode, I look a bit closer at my conversation with Professor Sam Wass, who you may recognise from such TV shows as The Secre...
Neuroscience and Emotional Regulation in Children, with Professor Sam Wass
Does your child ever get worked up, and you find it escalates super fast but feel powerless to bring them down from that ledge?
Every parent has...