The Caring Instinct
Navigating parenting challenges with trust and an open heart. Tune in for our parenting journeys through the lens of developmental science and stay for interviews with our amazing guests. Find guest bios, video clips and transcripts as well as our webinars and course here Music by ManLikeChez
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 30
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
Episode 35: When The Kids Stopped Playing: Joe and Olga with Dr. Peter Gray
Our children and teenagers are more anxious and depressed than ever. Whilst the temptation is to blame the pandemic or the use of mobile phones, gaming and social media, what do the children themselv…
00:52:30 |
Fri 03 May 2024
Episode 34: The Self-Driven Child: Joe and Olga with Dr. William Stixrud
Our children and teenagers are often at least as busy, stressed and sleep-deprived as adults. Amidst an unprecedented youth mental health crisis, our education systems remain divorced from everything…
01:04:01 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Episode 33: No More Monkeys: Joe and Olga with Rudi Gesch
What do you do if your toddler’s special talent is jumping on and off furniture? Our guest Rudi Gesch put his own spin on the old nursery rhyme in “No More Monkeys,” a book that feels like a reassuri…
00:40:30 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Episode 32: Nourished: Joe and Olga with Deborah MacNamara
All eating is emotional eating according to Dr. Deborah MacNamara, the author of Nourished, a book that is a gift to any parent who has felt baffled and frustrated when feeding their child (which is …
00:49:42 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Episode 31: KG Hypnobirthing: Joe and Olga with Katharine Graves
Katharine Graves has helped thousands of parents unlock the wonder of natural birth through unlearning harmful myths about labour, reclaiming agency in their antenatal journey and learning to underst…
00:49:44 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
Episode 30: Alternative Education Across the World: Anna Hobbs with Joe and Olga
If a school your kids and their friends need doesn’t exist, you can always create one! This is exactly what Anna Hobbs did. Listen to her incredible story of founding a democratic school that became …
00:38:43 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
Episode 29: All of Us Children: Joe & Olga with Daniel Maté
As the norms that used to structure relationships between ageing parents and grown-up children loosen, we may find ourselves with more agency to define ours. For some, it means a fresh start, a poten…
00:47:29 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Episode 28: Why Our Tears Matter: Joe and Olga with Rev. Benjamin Perry
If I was pressed to choose the most helpful episode of The Caring Instinct podcast, I would pick this conversation with Benjamin Perry, a queer minister and author of Cry, Baby: Why Our Tears Matter.…
00:43:54 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
Episode 27: Getting Perspective: Olga with Christina Hardyment
Are we right in thinking the parents of the past used to be much stricter? What awaits new parents and children after a decade of gentler approaches? Can millennials claim hands-on fatherhood as thei…
00:23:38 |
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Episode 26: Parenting with Self-Trust: Joe & Olga with Nancy Evans
We are talking to our friend Nancy Evans, a Relational Trauma and Addictive Behaviours coach, a mum of three sons and true cycle-breaker. Where do you find answers as a struggling mother who still kn…
00:28:43 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
Episode 25: Olga with Robin Brooks-Sherriff on Parenting Teenagers
If you are parenting a teenager (or are getting ready to!), this conversation with Robin, a sexual health nurse from Calgary and a facilitator of Making Sense of Adolescence at the Neufeld Institure,…
00:52:35 |
Thu 12 Oct 2023
Episode 24: Joe & Olga with Darcia Narvaez on Nesting Our Children
What is more natural to humans, competition or cooperation? How does a child grow into a good person and how can we help? How do we cultivate joy, curiosity and flexibility, as opposed to fear and ri…
00:38:28 |
Thu 28 Sep 2023
Episode 23: End of Season 1
We're saying good bye until the next season! Thank you for your listenership, please follow @thecaringinstinct for more.
00:01:24 |
Fri 02 Jun 2023
Episode 22: Housework and Kids: Battleground or Playground?
We give you a sneak peek of what’s brewing at The Caring Instinct and talk about the potential of housework to bring parents and children closer together. Did you know that only 24% of British childr…
00:20:55 |
Thu 11 May 2023
Episode 21: Joe & Olga with Becky Searle: Children, Gardens and Parenting Through the Climate Crisis
How do we parent through the climate crisis in a way that helps our children connect with nature, trust its wisdom and feel like they are part of the solution? We are talking to an ecologist, organic…
00:43:28 |
Sat 22 Apr 2023
Episode 20: Joe & Olga with Julieta Duvall on Unschooling
When the pandemic hit, Julieta bought $10,000 worth of curriculum to home school her sons, only to get rid of it and start unschooling! What unschooling means, how learning happens, family relationsh…
00:45:16 |
Mon 03 Apr 2023
Episode 19: Kids and Video Games! Joe & Olga with Ash Brandin @thegamereducator
Are you a parent of a young gamer? Ash @thegamereducator empowers parents to navigate the world of video games with insight, compassion and practical strategies.What is it about video games that many…
00:56:57 |
Fri 10 Mar 2023
Episode 18: Joe & Olga with Rhea Woolgar on Worldschooling
Rhea and her husband have taken their two teenagers out of school for a year to travel the world. They've travelled through South-East Asia and Africa and are heading to Europe. We caught Rhea in Egy…
00:42:32 |
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Episode 17: Joe and Olga with Debi Gliori Part 2
Part 2 of our conversation with the award-winning Scottish writer and illustrator Debi Gliori. Finding our No Matter What with teenagers and seeing our little ones through the start of school. What i…
00:37:52 |
Sat 11 Feb 2023
Episode 16: Joe and Olga with Debi Gliori Part 1
Debi Gliori is the award-winning writer and illustrator of over eighty picture books and novels for children. In Part 1 we talk about little Debi, going through depression and Night Shift, and how th…
00:41:26 |
Sat 11 Feb 2023
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