Dear Parents with Phil Boucher, M.D.

Dear Parents is a podcast for parents who want calm, confident guidance grounded in science—not trends, fear, or perfection. Hosted by pediatrician and parent Dr. Phil Boucher, each episode offers practical, real-world insight to help you navigate discipline, behavior, screens, ADHD, and everyday parenting challenges with clarity and confidence. dearparents.substack.com

Dear Parents with Phil Boucher, M.D. is a kids podcast hosted by Phil Boucher, M.D., with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Phil Boucher, M.D. hosts Dear Parents with Phil Boucher, M.D., a kids show with 18 episodes published.

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  Feeding Without the Anxiety with Jennifer Anderson, MSPH, RDN

  Jun 5, 202646 minS0

  <p>Feeding kids has never felt harder, and today we chew on how much of that difficulty is manufactured. Jennifer Anderson, MSPH, RDN, founder of Kids Eat in Color, joins me to cut through the conflicting six-second advice and hand parents something better: a way to make their own calls. You are the expert on your own child. If a strategy is making things worse in your house, that’s reason enough to drop it.</p><p>What you’ll take away:</p><p>Why a consistent meal and snack routine is the best place to start when feeding feels like...

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  Ultraprocessed Foods and Behaviors

  May 8, 202620 minS0

  <p>Ultra-Processed Foods and Kids’ Behavior: What the New JAMA Study Means for Your Family</p><p>A new JAMA study followed over 2,000 preschoolers and found that higher ultra-processed food intake at age three predicted worse behavior at age five: more anxiety, withdrawal, aggression, and hyperactivity. At age three, UPFs already made up 45.5% of these kids’ daily calories.</p><p>The good news: researchers modeled what happens when you swap just 10% of UPF calories for real food, and behavior scores improved across every domain. Small and intentional beats dramatic and unsustainable.</p><p>In this episode, I walk through two quic...

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  Authoritative Approach: "What do you want to watch?"

  May 6, 20263 minS0

  <p>Quick video on how to save yourself a lot of headaches and time when your child wants to watch a show but you don’t have 47 minutes to flip through 3 different streaming services to find what they want to watch.</p><p>Also, if you are interested in learning and actually implementing authoritative parenting, I have an upcoming authoritative parenting study group starting on May 19th. It will be a really cool experience (I think) for parents to learn authoritative principles and approaches to make parenting more enjoyable from toddlers through teens. Daily lessons delivered straight to you over te...

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  AMA: 6 year old wants to be in control

  Apr 21, 202612 minS0

  <p>A mom left this question in the chat:</p><p></p><p>“My six-year-old wants to be in charge, and we have let her. We break down and allow bad habits because it’s easier for us and her three-year-old brother — but now her brother is starting to pick up on her habits. She tantrums about going to school, coming home from school, treats, new toys, iPad time, leaving or going to anything, and all food. We started introducing timeouts, mealtime at the table only when we offer, and a 30-minute daily limit on iPad away from food. She has se...

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  Authoritative vs. Permissive Parenting with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson

  Apr 15, 202657 minS0

  <p>Dr. Phil Boucher sits down with bestselling author and child development expert Dr. Tina Payne Bryson (The Whole-Brain Child, No Drama Discipline, The Way of Play) to untangle the most common parenting style confusion out there: gentle parenting vs. authoritative parenting, and why so many parents accidentally land in permissive territory.They dig into the 60-year-old research behind structure and nurture as two separate dimensions — not opposites — and why kids actually feel safer when grownups are clearly in charge. Plus, practical examples for holding a limit while staying connected, and how playfulness can do the heavy lifting when your band...

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