
Parenting with Patricia
By Patricia Pearson, LCSW
Patricia Pearson, a licensed Social Work therapist, has understanding and passion for parenting to help guide parents in raising happy and resilient children. She addresses parent's emails with their questions and concerns and has conversations with experts that have the information parents want. Join Patricia biweekly for great parenting discussions.

Parenting with PatriciaFeb 05, 2019
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Episode 7: Talking to Children about the Blues
Patricia and Christine Emery, the author of Black Cloud Blues, discuss what depression looks like from the child's perspective. The stigma of mental health needs to be removed, and we need to talk to our children about how sadness feels. Christine tells her own story in this book which makes it very different than other children's books with a more clinical slant.
Feb 05, 201921:44

How Social Skills can help your Child
Patricia sits down with Dr. Christoper Haley, of the Social Skills Center and discusses how strengthening your child's social skills can help with anger, anxiety, friendships, autism, and even sibling conflicts.
Jan 01, 201946:19

Parenting Pet Peeves
Parenting Pet Peeves are the things that parents do that drive us crazy and make steam come from our ears. In this episode Patricia will share a parent's pet peeve and argue with them that its not really that annoying. Also, Patricia will share one of her biggest parent pet peeves and you can decide if its worthy to be categorized as a pet peeve or a simple annoyance.
Dec 18, 201818:14

Parenting Children with Depression
This episode looks closer at depression in children and teens. Patricia visits a high school and has a conversation with the school social worker, Marc DeAngelo, on self injury. She also answers a mom’s email about our children looking at pornography online.
Nov 26, 201841:12

Parenting the Child with Temper Tantrums
Patricia sits down with Karen Chaudhry, LCSW, a counselor at Counseling of Alexandria and discusses why kids have temper tantrums. They talk about how to prevent tantrums and what to do when your child melts down. She talks with a mom of twins and finds out how it feels to have double the fun. Patricia also answers an email from a dad concerned about his teenager daughter’s boyfriend.
Nov 03, 201836:23

Parenting the Anxious Child
Patricia sits down with Tammi Van Hollander author of the book Casey's Greatness Wings to discuss effective parenting technique for children with anxiety.
Oct 20, 201843:42

Parenting After Divorce
Patrica sits down for a conversation with Jennifer Glacel, LCSW, RPT-S about parenting after Divorce and techniques for supporting you child through the process.
Oct 06, 201829:47