In honor of Sickle Cell Disease month Elle Cole from Cleverly Changing graces the Parenting Cipher with her experience and knowledge of Sickle Cell Disease. You may be wondering why Sickle Cell Disease is important to People of Color when it seems like only a small amount of people have it. In this episode, Elle shines the light on why Sickle Cell Disease is important to our community even if we don't have the disease.
Anxiety is an existing fact that we deal with in our daily lives the best way we can. Even though we have our own coping skills. How do we raise our children with the skills to manage their anxiety starting today? Jodi Aman joins the Parenting Cipher and explains how anxiety shows up for your child and how to give them coping skills that will help them manage their anxiety. We also talked about how to support pre-teens and teenagers who are dealing with bullying and racism.
In this episode, Darius the founder & chief executive officer of Dynamic Therapy, LLC, a speech-language pathologist joins us to talk about speech therapy and how it affects your child’s life.
Darius breaks down exactly how the speech therapist helps your child beyond articulation so that you can sit in an IEP meeting and be able to advocate more for your child.
In this episode the show host Genie Dawkins talks about how to connect with your child through conversations. Connection is an essential part of her parenting coaching program. She gives a peek into the different ways that we connect with ourselves and family, most importantly our children.
By sharing her journey on how she has has learned how to create great conversations with her kids based on their likes not just her own.
Elizabeth Milivodov graces the Parenting Cipher with her Digital Parenting Coaching expertise by discussing how to take your parenting skills into the digital world. So you can gain control of the online devices while creating relationships with your kids.
In episode part 1 of 2 episodes with Lajoy Johnson-Law, parent advocate, and DC Board of Education Candidate, she talks about advocacy, self-care, and mental health. When you are a parent with special needs kids you can immerse yourself in your child’s care and unconsciously stop taking care of yourself.
Going into this new school year either virtually or in-person one of the conversations that we should have with our children is about bullying. Even though most schools will discuss bullying at some point. It’s important that we have these discussions with our children as well. When you have opens conversations with your child about bullying they are more apt to share with you when they are getting bullied or in situations that someone else is getting bullied.
Genie Dawkins introduces you to The Parenting Cipher community by sharing her inspirations. Talking about her childhood in Washington, introduction to Hip Hop, and why the Parenting Cipher is part of a revolution.
