Your mental health questions answered: Parenting SOS with Professor Sam Wass
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week’s Parenting SOS is another bonus episode brought to you by Bupa, who have identified some of the most urgent questions when it comes to helping our children with their mental health.
Giovanna welcomes back child psychologist Professor Sam Wass to guide us through these questions, which include how to have conversations about drugs and alcohol, and how to support a child through a period of change or stress.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Happy Mum Happy Baby parenting SOS. |
| 0:04.4 | But there's a huge amount we don't understand still about like why it is that you just wake up feeling rubbish, yeah? |
| 0:10.4 | And how your mood changes during the course of the day. |
| 0:13.0 | Actually saying to your kids, you know, I'm really upset about this too. |
| 0:16.0 | It's something that parents often find very, very hard just because they want to be the strong one, |
| 0:21.0 | they want to be the authority figure, they want to be setting a model. |
| 0:23.8 | Don't try and push people into a particular emotional state, just wait and understand how |
| 0:28.0 | they are and recognize that tomorrow they might be feeling completely differently to how they're feeling |
| 0:32.3 | today. |
| 0:32.8 | Hello welcome back to happy Mom, Happy Baby. |
| 0:42.6 | This week we have another bonus episode brought to you from Booper. |
| 0:46.4 | A few weeks ago Booper set us up with the outstanding Sam was an amazing professor of child |
| 0:51.8 | psychology at the University of East London, |
| 0:54.6 | where he leads the Baby Dev Lab research unit. |
| 0:57.9 | You might recognize him from Channel 4's program, The Secret Life of 4 and 5year-olds where he served as an expert |
| 1:03.9 | commentator on child development issues. Sam is working with Booper to help the |
| 1:08.6 | parents spot the signs of mental health conditions, helping parents and |
| 1:12.0 | carers to open up conversations about mental health |
| 1:14.0 | with their children or other young people in their lives. |
| 1:18.0 | It's such an important topic. |
| 1:20.0 | It's been reported that in the last three years |
| 1:22.0 | the likelihood of young people having a mental health problem has increased by 50% and 50% of all mental health problems start by the age of 14. |
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