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Parenting with Impact

The Parenting with Impact Podcast with Elaine Taylor-Klaus and Diane Dempster, co-creators of ImpactParents.com, inspires parents and professionals guiding complex kids, teens and young adults all over the world to become capable, independent adults. ImpactParents.com is an online community, award-winning blog, and direct service provider for parents and professionals. Elaine and Diane are certified professional coaches with their own lived experience raising children with complex challenges such as ADHD, anxiety, depression, learning disabilities, gender identity issues, and more. Drawing from both personal and professional experience, they teach and inspire parents and professionals to raise and empower complex kids with confidence and calm. Scroll down for links and to download a free parenting guide.

 

The Parenting with Impact Podcast will:

  • Feature leading experts, bringing you cutting edge information to address your child’s challenges
  • Teach you real-life, practical strategies for creating lasting change
  • Demonstrate how a coach-approach can improve all of your communications, one conversation at a time

 

For the essentials of ImpactParent’s coach-approach to parenting, download a free parenting guide at: ImpactParents.com/Podcast

 

Find out about Sanity School®, a program for Parents, at: https://impactparents.com/programs-offerings/parent-training-sanity-school/

 

For information about professional continuing education: https://impactparents.com/for-professionals/ 

 

Visit Impact Parents at: https://impactparents.com/

Parenting with Impact

100 Episodes Available
Episode 176

Ep 176: Adult Material Online: Risks & Prevention for Children & Pre-Teens

34.92 min Apr 9, 2025

Listen to this Parenting With Impact episode with John Paul Simon about risks and prevention for children watching adult material online.
 
How to Talk to Your Complex Kids [and Other Important Relationships]
 
Strained communication can create a hot mess of misunderstanding and conflict — w...

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Ep 175: Research Results: Porn Exposure in Pre-Teens & Teens

30.43 min Apr 9, 2025

Listen to this Parenting With Impact episode with Dr. Supreet Mann about potential psychological and emotional impacts of exposure to pornographic material on children and teens. 
 
How to Talk to Your Complex Kids [and Other Important Relationships]
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Episode 173

Ep 174: When Kids Are Not Living up to Their Potential

26.33 min Apr 9, 2025

Listen to this Parenting With Impact episode with Elaine and Diane as they discuss motivation.
 
How to Talk to Your Complex Kids [and Other Important Relationships]
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Episode 173

Ep 173: How Camps & Adventures Can Help Kids with ADHD & Anxiety

28.89 min Apr 9, 2025

John Willson, MS, LRT/CTRS, is Executive Director for SOAR, the world’s premier adventure program serving youth with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and LD (Learning Disabilities). SOAR’s outdoor adventure-based programs provide academic instruction, experiential education, and l...

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Episode 172

Ep 172: The Parent Paradox: Avoid 'Fix-It Mode' for Better Problem-Solving

20.35 min Apr 9, 2025

The sense of urgency in parenting often leads to reactive rather than creative problem-solving, posing unique challenges for both parents and children. Elaine and Diane, drawing from their personal experiences and insights, underscore the importance of recognizing and managing the signs of reactivit...

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Episode 171

Ep 171: Are You Unflappable? Adapting to Parent Stress, Grief, Change and More

32.73 min Apr 9, 2025

Parenting With Impact with Elaine Taylor-Klaus

Episode 171 Are You Unflappable? Adapting to Parent Stress, Grief, Change and More with Renee Zavislak

Renee Zavislak, the host of Psycho Therapist: The Podcast, is a licensed psychotherapist, coach, and nutritionist in private practice; she speciali...

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Episode 170

Ep 170: Early Childhood & Beyond: Parents Are a Child's First (and Forever) Teacher

32.36 min Jul 2, 2024

Dr. Marquita Davis, Ph.D., is KinderCare’s Chief Academic Officer, overseeing the development of KinderCare’s high-quality educational programs, educator professional development, quality and accreditation initiatives, research and evaluation, inclusion services, and public policy.

Marquita ha...

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Episode 169

Ep 169: Beyond Mean Girls: Parenting and Dignity

32.86 min Jul 1, 2024

Listen to this Parenting With Impact episode with Rosalind Wiseman about parenting and dignity.

Top 12 Tips To Help Your Complex Kids
Got complex kids? Yeah, so do we. Parenting a complex kid can be frustrating, overwhelming, and isolating. It can also be incredibly rewarding — with the right...

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Episode 168

Ep 168: Surgeon General Warning on Social Media: How Should Parents Respond?

32.14 min Apr 9, 2025

Listen to this Parenting With Impact episode with Elaine and Diane as they discuss social media and mental health.

Parenting is Leadership
Parenting is a leadership opportunity. With the “Parenting is Leadership” Guide from ImpactParents, two frameworks and a dozen core competencies wi...

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Episode 167

Ep 167: But I Don't Want To! The Emotions Behind Procrastination

31.65 min Apr 9, 2025

Dani Donovan is a purpose-driven creator and the founder/CEO of The Anti-Boring Project. Her unorthodox self-help book “The Anti-Planner: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don’t Feel Like It” offers procrastinators innovative strategies, activities, and games to understand their emotions and overc...

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