{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Words in the Wilderness","title":"What Our Kids Are Actually Telling Us with Nicole Runyon","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3140,"description":"Wait! Before you read another article about screen time, before you spiral about whether you're doing enough, before you outsource your child to a therapist and hope they come back fixed Jacky and Nicole Runyon want you to hear something first.You are more powerfully positioned to help your child than any professional will ever be. That's what Nicole - a therapist who has 23 years of clinical experience with children and families - wants you to know.Nicole is a psychotherapist and author of Free to Fly - a book that traces what happened to children's mental health when we started pathologising feelings, outsourcing connection, and handing over authority to devices. What she found wasn't a disorder. It was a disconnection.In this episode:Why 90% of children start school highly intelligent,  what happens to that number, and whyThe lie we've been sold about technology and child development - and what crawling has to do with itFeelings reverence vs feelings reference Why Nicole shifted her entire practice from treating children to coaching parentsThe guilt that gets in the way of trusting your instincts -  and how to move through it, not around it  | \"I'm sitting here and wondering how those amends would have helped to change our now. But I know those amends would bring different struggles to bear... So I sit here beside you for when you need me by your side.\" — Parental ReflectionsLinks for Nicole:Website: https://nicolerunyon.com/Book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/free-to-fly-the-secret-to-fostering-independence-in-the-next-generation-nicole-runyon/31948c37916814dd?ean=9781637633779&next=t&next=tInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/igenerationmentalhealth","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4hfrLdDjmBqkJYae5r1SuOybbLzJ0ewMdYtN5Mi3f9o/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wYjA5/ZTAxNzFjMmI4ZDI3/NGU0ZGJlYjllNDRh/MTk0Ni5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}