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The Dr. Ray Podcast
In “The Dr. Ray Podcast,” Dr. Ray Guarendi talks about parenting issues from diaper dilemmas to teenage traumas to college crises! Family, personal and professional life issues are dealt with in a straight-forward, no-nonsense, and often humorous way.
Episodes
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Thoughts Provoke Feelings
Thoughts provoke feelings. But do those thoughts make sense?
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Five Reasons why apologies aren't given
Dr Ray discusses the Five Reasons Why Apologies Aren’t Given
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Banning Smartphone Use In Class
Dr Ray explains the predictable positive results from these bans that are happening nationwide.
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Law of Social Reciprocity
Dr Ray tells us why we shouldn’t expect a return on our good behavior toward others.
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But I Apologized
Dr Ray explains how some relationships are not as solid as we may think they are.
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Peer Influence and Smoking
Dr Ray discusses how easily teens can change behavior due to behaviors their peers adopt.
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Persnickety Faith
Dr Ray warns us to not look down on those who are not where we are in the faith.
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The Ripple Effect
Dr Ray tells us how making tiny changes in ourselves can dramatically improve relationships.
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Elderly Eternity
Dr Ray wonders why so many elderly don’t consider the question of eternity.
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Trusting God Like My Son Needed to Trust Me
Dr Ray explains trusting God in times of suffering.
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Misleading Media Stereotypes
Dr Ray explains how the media normalizing bad behavior in teens can lead us to believe that behavior is normal.
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Confession is Good Psychology
Dr. Ray tells us why Jesus is the Master Psychologist.
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Four Big Causes of Parental Frustration
Dr. Ray summarizes the top reasons parents feel frustration.
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Is Marriage Hard Work?
You often hear the cliché, marriage is hard work. But is it?
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Can You Be a “1 in 100” Parent?
Dr. Ray explains that in order to have a “1 in 100” child, you need to be a “1 in 100” parent.
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The Strong-Willed Child
Dr Ray explains that being strong-willed is human nature and not a sign of a problem child.
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What's Wrong with "What's Wrong"?
Dr. Ray looks at the experts’ latest attempt to make parents second-guess themselves.
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Saving Sorry for Strangers
Dr. Ray looks at the ease ‘sorry’ is used casually vs. in relationships.
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The Look - Classical Conditioning
Dr. Ray explains “the look.” Why it worked and why it’s gone.
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Understanding Does Not Equal Agreement
Dr. Ray talks about how parents often feel their children will agree if they could get them to understand. And that is not always the case.
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The Desperation of Lectures
Dr Ray talks about the effectiveness of frequent lectures on kids.
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What’s Going On With Parental Estrangement?
Dr. Ray looks at the new phenomenon of parental estrangement.
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Phrases that Make Kids Anxious
Dr. Ray looks at an article that lays out phrases that supposedly make kids anxious. But do they?
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Look and Listen
Dr Ray talks about the habits people have of saying “look” or “listen” in conversation.
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Benign Underparenting is Good
Dr. Ray talks about how much attention parents should give to their children.
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Jesus was not a good man
Dr. Ray pushes back on secular claims that Jesus was merely a good man and teacher.
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Special Child
Dr. Ray talks about adjusting your discipline to a child’s unique circumstances.
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Asking for consent
Experts say parents should ask babies for consent to change diapers? Dr. Ray responds.
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Getting Cooperation from our Kids
Dr. Ray talks about positive reinforcement vs. negative reinforcement.
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How do feelings change?
Dr. Ray explains why your thinking and feelings change as you age.
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Is an Algorithm Raising Your Kid?
Dr Ray asks if an algorithm is raising your kid.
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The Curse of Extreme Language
Dr. Ray wonders why the language used to describe everyday matters is so extreme nowadays.
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Affection Sends a Powerful Message
Dr. Ray talks about communicating with your kids that your parenting rules are done out of love.
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The Myth of the Middle Child Syndrome
Dr. Ray reacts to National Middle Child Day by explaining how Middle Child Syndrome isn’t real
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The Body is Dumb
Dr. Ray explains that fears/phobias are attached to something that the mind has convinced the body is a threat.
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Non-Judgmental Language is Just Wrong
Dr Ray explains how society explains things are wrong while believing it’s wrong to say things are wrong. Or something to that effect…
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Psychological Correctness has Burned More Than One Generation
Dr Ray explains how psychological correctness has done a lot of damage to parents in terms of overthinking, overanalyzing and under-enjoying.
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The Causes of Our Cultural Violence
Dr. Ray looks at the causes of our culture violence in light of the shooting at the Catholic school in Minneapolis.
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Acting Sorry
Today, Dr. Ray explains how it’s easier to act nice as an unspoken apology than to say you’re sorry out loud.
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Spiritual, but not Religious
Dr. Ray explains more about the difference between being Spiritual, but not Religious and what it Means to be Agnostic.
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The Teenager Stereotype
Today Dr. Ray talks about stereotypes unfairly put on teens.
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Frustrated Parenting
Today Dr. Ray talks about how parents and kids communicate and what works and doesnt work.
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Therapeutic Window
Today Dr. Ray talks about the theories of discipline and raising kid with consequences.
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Speaking into our Goverment
Dr. Ray shares the appropriate way to speak into the decisions the goverment makes with a Catholic perspective.
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Marriage Behaviors
Today Dr. Ray ask the question and raises the challenges in marriage behavior.
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Modern Parenting
Today Dr. Ray talks about how to best prepare for your kids to become teenagers.
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The World is Falling Apart, What do I do?
Dr Ray checks in help with those whose parents or fmaily members are facing negative parts of life.
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Perception Parenting
Today Dr. Ray talks challenging your parents and why do we let our Kids Challenge us.
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Hurt Feelings
Today Dr. Ray talks the valudation of hurt feelings but what to do with them is what matters.