The Bad Mom Podcast: Parenting The Anxious Generation

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Our kids are growing up in an experiment no generation has faced before. Smartphones, social media, and online culture have become the dominant forces shaping their mental health, their relationships, and their sense of self. The results are devastating: skyrocketing anxiety, depression, and a generation more connected yet lonelier than ever. We had no idea how destructive the algorithms, deliberately engineered to turn our children into addicts, would prove to be. The Bad Mom Podcast: Parenting The Anxious Generation is the show for parents who see what's happening and refuse to accept it as inevitable. Host Vivian Glyck brings the credibility of a TED speaker and founder of Just Like My Child Foundation, plus the authenticity of a mother who personally navigated her son's mental health struggles. She is not lecturing from the sidelines. She is in the fight with you. Each episode features conversations with thought leaders like Dave Asprey, JJ Virgin, and Lisa Nichols, as well as parents in the trenches dealing with screen addiction, algorithmic manipulation, cyberbullying, and the daily struggle to protect kids from a digital ecosystem built to hook them. Vivian also brings the most current information on social media legislation and the policy battles being fought right now to protect our kids, because this is not just a parenting problem. It is a public health crisis that demands a public response. No judgment. No shame. Just honest dialogue, real strategies, and a path to collective action. Because when parents speak together, their voices carry. Through Project Grit, the show connects families to a growing movement working to hold platforms accountable and push for laws that actually protect children. Vivian channels 20+ years of work with vulnerable families worldwide into helping parents reclaim their kids from the online forces working against them. If you have ever felt powerless watching your child vanish into their phone, this podcast proves you are not alone, you are not helpless, and your voice matters more than you know.

Why Is My Child So Anxious? Dr. Daniel Amen on Raising Mentally Strong Kids

Dr. Daniel Amen, psychiatrist, brain imaging pioneer, and author of Raising Mentally Strong Kids, asked me something early in our conversation that I haven't been able to shake: "How do you know unless you look?" He's been asking that question for 45 years, armed with nearly 300,000 SPECT brain scans, and watching his colleagues diagnose this complex, extraordinary organ without a single piece of biological data. Here's what Dr. Amen knows that most parents don't: what looks like a mental health problem is almost always a brain health problem, and when you actually look at the brain, the answers hiding underneath the diagnosis are often completely different from what anyone expected. He walked me through the four-circle model he uses at Amen Clinics, biological, psychological, social, and spiritual, and why medicating a symptom without understanding the root is like putting a cast on a leg you haven't X-rayed. The framework he introduced from Raising Mentally Strong Kids, built on the Love and Logic model with Charles Fay, gave me one of the simplest and most powerful reframes I've heard in this space: if you do too much for your children, you are building your self-esteem by stealing theirs. You'll walk away knowing why your child's brain isn't fully developed until 25, what dopamine depletion actually looks like in a teen, and the one daily practice Dr. Amen calls more valuable than almost anything else you can do as a parent. FOR FULL SHOW NOTES & TO WATCH THE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE, GO TO: badmompodcast.com/mentallystrongkids [http://badmompodcast.com/mentallystrongkids] KEY TAKEAWAYS: * What the nearly 300,000 brain scans Dr. Amen has collected reveal about why your kid's anxiety might have absolutely nothing to do with their mindset * Why the prefrontal cortex doesn't fully develop until 25, and what that means for every decision you've been trying to get your teen to make * The wild card nobody is talking about: how COVID physically changed the brain, and what before-and-after scans actually show * Discover the four-circle model (biological, psychological, social, and spiritual) that Amen Clinics uses instead of just writing a prescription * Why doing too much for your child doesn't help them at all, and the one phrase that got 50 million views because it hit every parent right in the gut * The "special time" practice that costs nothing, takes 20 minutes, and might be the single most effective tool for reconnecting with a kid who's pulling away * What's actually happening in your teen's brain on dopamine, how social media, video games, and pornography deplete it, and the simple strategies that can help the brain recover 📌 Connect with Dr. Amen * Website: https://www.amenclinics.com/ * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doc_amen/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/doc_amen/?hl=en] * TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@docamen * Book: Raising Mentally Strong Kids (with Charles Fay) https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Mentally-Strong-Kids-Neuroscience/dp/1496484797 * Podcast: Change Your Brain Every Day https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-your-brain-every-day/id1178337794 * Good Neighbor Day Initiative: https://goodneighborday.com/ RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS: 👉 If you’ve ever thought, “Am I doing this right?” or felt the pain of wanting to do everything but not having the tools, this episode is for you. Listen, share it with another parent who needs healing and guidance, and subscribe to The Bad Mom Podcast: Parenting The Anxious Generation. And remember: you are not a bad mom; you’re a bada$$ in a broken system. Keep fighting. 📌 Connect with Vivian Glyck & The Bad Mom Podcast: Parenting The Anxious Generation * The Bad Mom Podcast on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/badmompodcast/?hl=en] * Vivian on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/vivianglyck/?hl=en] * The Bad Mom Podcast on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579494953451#] * The Bad Mom Podcast on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@TheBadMomPodcast] * The Bad Mom Podcast on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@thebadmompodcast?_t=ZT-8zmOqrATaZL&_r=1] The Bad Mom Podcast: Parenting The Anxious Generation is a Project Grit initiative: fortifying mental wellness for the next generation. Just Like My Child Foundation is a proud nonprofit partner of Project, committed to equipping today's youth with the tools they need to thrive and build a better future. For Moms Running on Empty…This Coffee Hits Different We are so excited to welcome Dave Asprey’s Danger Coffee as the first official sponsor of Project Grit and Bad Mom Podcast. The truth is that I am addicted to Danger Coffee and I won’t drink any other coffee so it’s a good thing there are so many great benefits to it! The flavor is way better than other premium brands and I get the caffeine support without the jitters. Get 10% off your next purchase here and keep Project Grit and Bad Mom Podcast afloat: https://dangercoffee.com/

15 de jun de 2026 - 53 min