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Calming the Dysregulated Child

Why dysregulated children struggle with executive function and how to help them improve

353: Why Dysregulated Kids Can’t Use Their Executive Function (and What to Do About It)

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Techniques to calm your child without words using neurofeedback and natural therapies

351: How to Calm Your Child Without Saying a Word

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How rewards and consequences may harm children with behavioral and emotional challenges

349: Are Rewards and Consequences Hurting Your Child Instead of Helping?

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Stressed parent learning Regulation First Parenting™ techniques for managing child anxiety and behavior

344: Regulation First Parenting: The Secret Every Stressed Parent Needs to Hear

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Calm parenting techniques for managing oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in children effectively

305: How to Stay Calm When Your Child Pushes Your Buttons (Oppositional ODD Parenting Tips)

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How a child's challenging behavior can impact parental relationships and marriage

79: How Your Child's Behavior Can Affect Your Marriage

We all know that parenting is hard and it becomes even more challenging when your child is dealing with a behavioral problem or a mental health condition. In some cases, marriages are affected because of children.
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Neurofeedback therapy as an effective treatment for ADHD symptoms in children

77: Neurofeedback for ADHD

If your child is struggling to focus, melting down, or getting in trouble at school, you’re not imagining it—the ADHD brain really does work differently. In this episode, I share how neurofeedback for ADHD can calm the brain and help your child thrive.
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Evaluating the effectiveness of natural therapies for ADHD, anxiety, and mood disorders

78: Do Natural Therapies for ADHD, Anxiety and Mood Work?

If your child struggles with focus, anxiety, or mood swings, this episode reveals which natural therapies for ADHD actually work—backed by science most doctors won't tell you about.
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The connection between ADHD and anxiety and approaches to manage both conditions

75: ADHD and Anxiety

If your child is constantly corrected, shuts down, or “won’t do the work,” you’re not failing—it may be ADHD and Anxiety showing up together. I’ll help you decode the behavior and calm the brain so real change can happen.
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Understanding rejection sensitivity dysphoria in children with ADHD and coping strategies

72: Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria and ADHD

If your child melts down at even the smallest correction, you may be seeing Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria and ADHD in action. Let’s talk about why these two often overlap—and why calming the brain first is safer and more effective than rushing into medication.
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Techniques to calm and regulate the dysregulated ADHD brain with expert guidance

76: Calming the Dysregulated ADHD Brain with Kate Coffey, LCSW

Join us in today’s episode as we discuss calming the dysregulated ADHD brain with our special guest, Dr. Kate Coffey, who is one of our amazing clinicians in our Brain Behavior Reset Program.
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Strategies to foster emotional regulation skills in children with mental health challenges

73: Fostering Emotional Regulation

Sometimes, kids don’t know how to process their emotions, particularly when things get a little too overwhelming. That is why we have been emphasizing in our previous episodes how important emotional regulation is when our kids exhibit behaviors that tend to trigger our frustration.
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Practical strategies to improve impulse control in children with ADHD and related disorders

74: Strategies for Impulse Control

In today’s episode, we’ll be talking about the strategies for impulse control and how we can help our kids put those brakes on.
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Podcast episode on understanding Failure to Launch and its impact on children's mental health and development

69: What is Failure to Launch?

We have an epidemic of young adults who either failed to launch or never launched at all but we shouldn’t lose hope because there are things we can do.
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Exploring causes of over-reactivity in kids and strategies for managing emotional responses effectively

71: Why is my Kid so Over-Reactive?

Often, parents are left wondering what’s wrong with their kid when they have been crying too much or when they are being over-reactive.
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Tips to reduce OCD behaviors in children by avoiding reinforcement of compulsive habits and thoughts

65: How to Stop Feeding the OCD Monster

When the OCD monster takes over your child’s thoughts and behaviors, it can feel overwhelming. In this episode, I share how to break the cycle and calm the brain—drawing on my expertise in Regulation First Parenting™ and emotional dysregulation.
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How co-regulation and sharing calmness support emotional regulation in dysregulated children

70: Sharing Your Calm: How Co-Regulation Helps Dysregulated Kids

When things get a little too overwhelming for us because of our dysregulated kids, we often think we’re helpless but in reality, we can do something about it. There are things we can do to change that not just for them but even for their future generation as we break that cycle.
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Dysregulated Kids Podcast: Emotional Dysregulation, ADHD, Anxiety, and Nervous System Solutions for Kids


Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge, creator of Regulation First Parenting™, is the host of the top 1% global parenting podcast Dysregulated Kids and author of The Dysregulated Kid. She helps parents understand emotional dysregulation in children and the connection to ADHD, anxiety, and child behavior problems—all through a nervous system lens.

If you feel like nothing is working and your child has constant meltdowns, big emotional reactions, or seems like a dysregulated child who just can’t control their behavior, this podcast will help you understand why. Dr. Roseann breaks down how behavior is connected to the stress response in children, so you can stop reacting to symptoms and start supporting real regulation.

With over 30 years of clinical experience and insights from more than 10,000 brain maps, she teaches how to support nervous system regulation in children, use co-regulation techniques, and build self-regulation skills for children in real-life, everyday moments.

Whether you’re parenting a dysregulated child, navigating anxiety, or wondering how to calm a dysregulated child without yelling, each episode gives you clear, science-backed strategies that help your child feel better—so behavior, focus, and connection can finally improve.

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