The Child Psych Podcast

We can no longer go about healing families and raising children by shaming their parents. In this episode, Tania Johnson and Tammy Schamuhn, interview Mercedes Samudio who started the #endparentshaming campaign. Mercedes, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Best Selling Author, is a passionate advocate that parents are human too and that the shame and judging needs to end. In her dynamic interview, she speaks of the development of the parenting identity as deserving of the same space and grace

"I was spanked as a kid and I turned out just fine!" Join child psychologists Tania Johnson and Tammy Schamuhn as they delve into parenting myths, generational shifts in discipline, and alternate ways to deal with challenging behaviour with Mr Chazz. Mr Chazz is a parent educator , motivational speaker, and a teacher of teachers. This episode is energetic, engaging and full of strategies- if you are looking for new tools in your parenting belt, don’t miss it! Want to learn more from Mr. Chazz? Take

Tania Johnson and Tammy Schamuhn interview parenting expert Jennifer Kolari, author of the best-selling book "Connected Parenting" (a personal favourite) In this episode, Jennifer explains that children act up when they do not feel understood. She shares techniques that therapists use to help children through difficult behaviour and explains how to increase the parent-child bond. At the heart of Jennifer's work is the CALM technique which has been proven to de-escalate tantrums, reduce anxiety, and

Most parents think that if our child would just "behave," we could maintain our composure as parents. The truth is that managing our own emotions and actions is what allows us to feel peaceful as parents. Ultimately we can’t control our children or the hand life deals them—but we can always control our own actions. Parenting isn’t about what our child does, but about how we respond." In this podcast we interview one of our FAVOURITE parenting experts Dr. Laura Markham, Clinical Psychologist,