Making Sense of Anxious Children: A grounded framework for staying steady when your child isn’t
The Huddle Wisdom Podcast

The Huddle Wisdom Podcast

Hosted by: Psychiatrist and parent Dr. Davin Tan helps families support anxious children with insight, compassion, and calm.

Parenting anxious, emotionally intense, or neurodivergent kids isn’t a problem to solve but a relationship to grow. Modern parenting comes with pressure: to fix, to manage, to stay calm, to get it right. But when...

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Episode 035: Helping anxious kids - with clinical psychologist, Tanzi Bennison

Anxiety affects us all. Adults, teachers, parents and kids. How do we help our anxious kids? especially when we're feeling awful ourselves or struggling with our own emotions. Join me and tune in to my conversation...
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Episode 034: Setting boundaries with your kids without the guilt

We can all feel bad when we're trying to set boundaries; sometimes we carry our baggage from the past with us into the present. It doesn't have to be that way. Sometimes our kids push back...that's normal...but it...
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Episode 033: ADHD in brief part 2

Just adding a little bit more knowledge for you knowledge-philes. I'll drip feed bits every so often to help us 'round' out our understanding of how ADHD affects kids and adults and that'll point us towards more...
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Episode 032a: Teach your kids to see the good and bad in people (without the coughing!)

Sorry for last week's dog's breakfast of an episode. Coughing and spluttering is not really great to listen to. This is episode 32a. In the audio I said 31a, that's wrong. It's 32a. Sorry...again. You can listen to...
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Episode 032: How do you teach your kids to see the good and the bad in others?

Humans like to split people and lump people into groups. You're in or you're out. How do we talk to our kids and teach them to see people as individuals so they don't breed unhelpful bias or prejudice in their...
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Episode 031: How to make poo shine

Our perceptions of things in life is not going to change reality, but it can change how we feel about ourselves, others and the future. In this episode I talk about the idea of how we can catch unhelpful thoughts that...
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Episode 030: Reflections - I feel like i've failed...so what am I going to do about it?

Personal reflections from yours truly about feeling like a failure and what I've been thinking about to get through it. Hope it helps.
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Episode 029: ADHD in brief

In this episode I talk briefly about how I like to conceptualise ADHD. It's a helpful way of 'seeing' ADHD and it helps us find creative ways to intervene and help those who have difficulties.
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Episode 028: How do I help someone who is depressed?

The solution to other people's problems are not always easy to find. Sometimes it's not always what is needed in a moment of crisis. In this episode, I share my perspectives on depression and share some ideas as to...
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Episode 027: How do I teach my children to empathise?

My friends! Do you want your kids to know how to win friends and influence people? Here. Get some pearls of wisdom. You are welcome. Here are some of my favourite tips to help you teach your children to empathise...
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Episode 026: An empathic approach to school refusal

School refusal is tough to deal with, but it is not impossible. Come hang out and we'll discuss it. Also check out the FREE resource to help you make roadmaps to navigate difficult emotions: www.huddlewisdom.com/gettools
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Episode 025: The case for empathy and how to develop it

I was the naughty and loud kid at school...believe it or not. But I had a teacher who valued me - or at least I felt it. She empathised with me and I found a place in her class. I felt like I belonged because of her....
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