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Tantrum of the Week
Welcome to Tantrum of the Week, the parenting podcast that helps you make sense of your child’s hardest moments. Hosted by Lynn McLean, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™, each episode explores one real-life tantrum and uncovers the emotional needs, triggers, and stressors underneath.
You’ll learn how to:
- Understand the why behind your child’s behavior
- Respond with calm and confidence — not frustration
- Build emotional regulation skills through connection
- Use play therapy-informed parenting strategies that actually work
Whether you’re dealing with bedtime battles, sibling fights, or after-school meltdowns, Tantrum of the Week offers practical tips, expert insight, and a reminder that you’re not alone.
🎧 New episodes weekly.
📍 Based in Houston, Texas — helpful for parents everywhere.
Tantrum of the Week
Latest Episodes
When Homework Turns into a Nightly Battle
The backpack opens, you see what needs to get done, and your whole body tenses up. Sound familiar? This week's tantrum is the nightly homework fight, and let's be honest, we're often having a tantrum about it right along with our kids.Ho...
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Too Many Activities? How to Decide What Stays and What Goes
It's bedtime, and you just found out the field trip permission slip was due yesterday. Your seven-year-old is in tears, you're juggling three different practice schedules and a big work deadline, and before you know it, you've joined t...
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The After-School Meltdown Nobody Warned You About
They were fine. You picked them up, they were fine. The car ride home, fine. And then — over a snack they asked for — everything falls apart. In this episode, we talk through one of the most common (and most confusing) parenting moment...
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Why Sunday Nights Feel Impossible
You know the feeling? It's Sunday night, you've had a great weekend, and the second you open your calendar app your shoulders tense up. Practices, school events, work stuff, and oh right — you still need lunch stuff for tomorrow. That dread doe...
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