S2 Ep 9: The Camp Episode From Dr. Michael Thompson Author of Homesick and Happy

Raising Good Humans

Voicing Change Media

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Whether you are debating picking up your child early, wondering if your child is ready to go to camp, planning for next summer or dealing with the transition back from sleep away camp, clinical psychologist and best selling author Dr. Michael Thompson gives guidance for all things sleep away camp! www.ancientnutrition.com with code HUMANS for 20% off your order. To revitalize your joints, skin and hair, use code HUMANS for 20% off at store.draxe.com Policygenius. When it comes to insurance, it's nice to get it right www.talkspace.com with code HUMANS for $100 off your first month Produced by Dear Media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:07.6	Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and today I'm excited to have
0:13.2	clinical psychologist, school consultant, and international speaker and bestselling author,
0:19.3	Michael Thompson. Dr. Thompson was on the podcast before because he wrote Raising Cain and we had
0:25.3	an episode in the first season that was so wonderful and I asked him to come back because he wrote
0:31.6	a book called Home Sick and Happy about summer camp and I've gotten so many questions about
0:38.8	what to do with home sick kids who are at summer camp, who are thinking of going to summer camp,
0:45.7	who are asking to come home from summer camp and who are coming home from summer camp soon
0:52.9	and possibly campsick, missing their experience at camp. So we're going through all of those
0:59.3	scenarios and what to say and how to think about when to worry, what to do with our own anxieties
1:06.8	and how to make decisions about summer camp and the transition into the end of the summer camp
1:13.4	season and the new school year. And if you enjoy this episode, please don't hesitate to subscribe,
1:20.5	rate, and write a little review and just tell me your favorite line or thought or episode.
1:28.4	I'm really hoping you're enjoying your summer and if you have little ones who are off to summer
1:33.1	camp that you're hanging in there, maybe even having a blast and if you're thinking about it,
1:38.9	maybe this can help you think about it for next year. Well, I ask a parent what they're afraid of.
1:45.2	I had a mother write me on my website and say that or she'd sent her daughter off to camp,
1:51.0	she'd sent two girls off to camp and one was really enthusiastic and the other was somewhat reluctant
1:57.1	in foot dragging and the foot tracker began to write immediately and say she was miserable and she
2:03.6	was trusting that her mother would get her midseason take her own and she wanted her mother to
2:09.0	promise this and the mother wrote me and said, please tell me whether if I insist she stays,
2:15.8	it won't resile in a lifelong trauma. So at least she put it right down and writing but she was
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