Koru Family Psychology

11/15/2025

Curiosity Beats Anxiety

When kids feel anxious, their brain is shouting: “This is dangerous and I can’t handle it.”

But what if we helped them swap fear for curiosity? 🔍

Curiosity invites questions, not catastrophes — and it changes how kids think, feel, and behave.

Let’s teach children to explore their emotions, not fear them.
Because curiosity doesn’t just calm the mind, it rewires it. 💫

🎥 Watch the full clip: https://youtu.be/Txi0Q2a8ZAs or listen to episode 212 of Overpowering Emotions on your favourite podcast channel

11/14/2025

Experiences Build Resilience

We all want to protect our kids, but shielding them from hard things can keep anxiety strong.

Children grow when they face challenges and discover their own ability to cope. 🌱

Every tough experience gives the brain valuable data: “That wasn’t as bad as I thought… and I can do it again.”

Let’s give kids opportunities to do hard things safely. That’s how resilience is built.

🎥 Watch the full clip: https://youtu.be/Txi0Q2a8ZAs or listen to episode 212 of Overpowering Emotions on your favourite podcast channel

11/13/2025

The Emotional Brain Learns by Doing

You can’t talk your child out of anxiety — their emotional brain doesn’t learn that way. 🧠💡

Kids need experiences to build tolerance and confidence. Letting them safely feel anxiety teaches their brain: “I can handle this.”

That’s how real growth happens, not by avoiding hard feelings, but by moving through them.

🎥 🎥 Watch the full clip: https://youtu.be/Txi0Q2a8ZAs or listen to episode 212 of Overpowering Emotions on your favourite podcast channel

11/12/2025

Ever posted a “funny” story about your child online, only to realize later it wasn’t yours to share?

This week on Parents of the Year, Andrew and Caroline get real about “sharenting,” how our social media habits might be stealing kids’ right to privacy and shaping their identities before they even get a say.

From baby bath photos to venting in parent groups, they unpack what’s gone too far, why it happens, and how to course-correct with purpose and empathy.

🎧 Listen to Parents of the Year wherever you get your podcasts.

💡 Episode 187. Are parents violating their kids’ privacy online?

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

Are kids reacting before they’ve had a chance to think?

This week on Overpowering Emotions, Dr. Caroline talks about strategic emotion management, teaching kids how to pause, reflect, and understand what their feelings are trying to say.

Instead of “fixing” or minimizing emotions, we can help kids decode them.

❤️ What is this emotion trying to tell me?
🧠 Is it helping or hurting me right now?
💬 How can I respond in a way that actually helps?

This episode gives you the language, tools, and everyday strategies to help kids (and adults!) move from reaction to reflection.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts — and start building emotional awareness that lasts.

11/11/2025

How do kids learn to think about their emotions instead of being swept away by them? In this episode, Dr. Caroline breaks down strategic emotion management, helping children and teens build emotional metacognition, the ability to reflect on and make sense of what they feel.

You’ll learn how to guide kids to pause, question, and evaluate their emotions: What is this feeling trying to tell me? Is it helping or hurting me right now?

Dr. Caroline shares practical strategies for teaching emotional literacy, building resilience, and creating space for reflection instead of reaction. She also offers real-life examples, from angry teens to overwhelmed kids, showing how adults can coach emotional awareness at any age. This episode includes simple tools, reflective questions, and step-by-step ways to strengthen emotional awareness and decision-making skills.

Key topics: emotional literacy, metacognition, cognitive reappraisal, resilience, co-regulation, reflective parenting, and emotional intelligence in youth.

11/10/2025

Children experience huge emotions — and when they don’t understand why they feel that way, anxiety fills in the blanks.

Instead of just teaching kids to “calm down,” we need to help them think resiliently — to recognize their thoughts, feelings, and their capacity to handle hard things.

Breathing helps for a moment. Resilient thinking lasts a lifetime. 💭✨

🎥 Watch the full clip: https://youtu.be/Txi0Q2a8ZAs or listen to episode 212 of Overpowering Emotions on your favourite podcast channel

11/07/2025

Kids don’t need protection from disappointment — they need practice with it.

When things don’t go their way, it’s a chance to build resilience, patience, and perspective.

If we rush to fix it, they miss that growth.

When a child says, “I didn’t make the team” or “I didn’t get picked,” resist the urge to solve it.

Acknowledge it. Sit beside them in it.

That’s what teaches them how to stand up again later.

Remember: When kids feel disappointment, they don’t need to feel better, they need to feel understood.

🎧 Listen to the Full episode of Podcast, episode 211, on your favourite podcast channel

11/07/2025

Embarrassment is one of the most misunderstood emotions in kids.

It’s not weakness or shame, it’s vulnerability.

It means: “I care how others see me. Please accept me.”

That’s social awareness and empathy at work.
When kids feel embarrassed, they don’t need rescuing — they need reassurance.

A calm “You’re okay. We all make mistakes.” goes further than a lecture ever will.

🎧 Listen to the full episode on Podcast on your favourite podcast channel (episode 211)

11/05/2025

🍼 Ever been up at 2 a.m. Googling “how to get my baby to sleep”… only to end up with 300 million results and zero answers?

This week on Parents of the Year, Andrew and Caroline chat with Camille Jaramis, founder of Ask Yawn, a parenting AI built by parents, for parents, to help you stop scrolling and start sleeping.

They dig into:
✨ Why most online parenting advice is wrong (and how AI can fix that)
✨ How to protect your privacy and still get help when you need it
✨ The surprising way tech can give parents time back instead of taking it

🎙 Listen now on your favourite podcast channel — it’s honest, funny, and surprisingly comforting.

11/04/2025

🧠💬 Kids and teens don’t just learn from what we say, they watch how we are. In this new episode of Overpowering Emotions, Dr. Caroline talks with MJ Murray Vachon about why mental wellness begins with adults, and how our regulation shapes children’s ability to thrive.

Hear about:
✨ Dr. Siegel’s “river of calm” and why chaos and rigidity pull us off course
✨ The FACES skills every child (and adult) can use to get back on track
✨ Why less talk and more presence can change tough parenting moments
✨ How to build a simple “glimmer list” that restores joy

This one is packed with stories, practical tools, and a reminder that small changes in us make big changes in our kids.

👉 Listen now on your favourite podcast channel