ADHD Parenting Podcast
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Join ADHD parenting coach Siope Kinikini as he helps you better parent a child with ADHD. As someone with ADHD, he understands what your child is going through and the challenges that families face. As a certified Parenting Coach, he knows the solutions you need.
The ADHD Smarter Parenting podcast is here to give you hope, solutions, confidence, and change by teaching you how to implement the behavior skills of the Teaching-Family Model. The Teaching-Family focuses on helping kids with ADHD reach their full potential. Applying what we teach throughout our parenting podcast will reduce stress and frustration and repair/strengthen your relationship with your child.
The ADHD Smarter Parenting Podcast is the first step in creating change for your family! Join us.
“Thank you so much for this calming, reassuring cast.”
Ladybugs
“[This] podcast literally saved me from mental anguish with coping with my son and identifying how to respond to [his] condition.”
Samantha
Recent Episodes
Ep #133: Putting in the work and becoming a parenting master
You can become a parenting master who knows how to help your child best. It just takes a little practice, and practice is is where the magic happens.
Ep #132: Helping a child calm down from a tantrum
When your child receives an ADHD diagnosis, you may think you understand what parenting them will look like. What happens when it doesn’t? What do you do when your child doesn’t have “typical” ADHD symptoms.
Ep #131: Creating a safe place for kids to talk about hard topics
When your child receives an ADHD diagnosis, you may think you understand what parenting them will look like. What happens when it doesn’t? What do you do when your child doesn’t have “typical” ADHD symptoms.
Ep #130: This is not what I signed up for | When ADHD symptoms aren’t typical
When your child receives an ADHD diagnosis, you may think you understand what parenting them will look like. What happens when it doesn’t? What do you do when your child doesn’t have “typical” ADHD symptoms.
Ep #129: Why you’re seeing increased negative behaviors
If you’re are seeing an increase in negative behaviors since the beginning of the pandemic, you are not alone. The uncertainty and change in routine has been difficult for many families
Ep #128: Neurodiversity and helping kids who learn differently
Neurodiversity is the belief that children with ADHD or Autism don’t have a learning disability. Instead they learn differently. By reframing your child’s diagnosis, we can frame their challenges as differences rather than deficits.
Ep #127: When you love your child but don’t always like your child
We can talk to our children about racism, religion, politics, sex, drugs, or social issues without it turning into heated debate. Learn how.
Ep #126: Why kids see time differently
How kids see time is very different than how you see time. Understanding this will be so helpful when you are dealing with giving instructions.
Ep #125: The skills are solutions
Are you looking for solutions to parenting challenges? The behavior skills of the Teaching-Family Model taught in this podcast are the solutions to your parenting needs!
Ep #124: The difference between coaching and therapy
In this episode, we discuss the difference between coaching and therapy and how you can determine your child’s needs.
Ep #123: How to talk to your kids about racism and other difficult topics
We can talk to our children about racism, religion, politics, sex, drugs, or social issues without it turning into heated debate. Learn how.
Ep #122: Special education and the law with Catherine Michael
It can be disheartening to find resources for your child. Learn from attorney Catherine Michael about the options available to you.
Ep #121: It’s okay not to be okay
If this pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that it’s okay not to be okay. This doesn’t make you a terrible parent. It makes you a real one.
Ep #120: Coping with pandemic exhaustion and changing needs
As this pandemic wears on, we feel exhausted by change and frustration that things aren’t back to normal. How we need to parent has changed.
Ep #119: Creating normalcy when things feel uncertain
When things get upended, we want to find a sense of normalcy for ourselves and our kids. Learn parenting skills to support your kids.
Ep #118: When one child’s behavior is affecting the whole family negatively
Parents sometimes struggle to balance the disparate needs of multiple children. Sibling rivalry is a challenge. Learn what to do here.
Ep #117: I am not the parent I thought I would be
If you’re struggling feeling like you’re failing as a parent, this podcast will give you hope! Listen in with Parenting Coach, Siope Kinikini.
Ep #116: Using Effective Communication to build deeper connections
Siope Kinikini continues his story about how Effective Communication helped survivors of human trafficking to begin the healing process.
Ep #115: Working with organizations that help victims of human trafficking
Today we cover a challenging topic, human trafficking, as we share how we’ve taught the Teaching-Family Model to help aftercare in Africa.
Ep #114: Helping kids focus
In this episode, Parenting Coach Siope Kinikini answers questions about anxiety and helping kids focus, especially for remote learning.
Ep #113: Why the Teaching-Family Model creates lasting change
Eric Bjorklund, President of Utah Youth Village, talks about how the Teaching-Family Model came to be, and how Smarter Parenting delivers it.