Tantrums, sleep training and anxiety: Dr Billy Garvey answers your parenting questions
All In The Mind
ABC Australia
4.5 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How can I help my child with anxiety? What's the deal with sleep training? Are we supposed to ignore tantrums?
This week, we've invited developmental paediatrician Dr Billy Garvey back on All in the Mind for a mailbag episode. We'll unpack your parenting dilemmas which cover questions about kids of all ages, from the littlest of newborns right through to teenagers.
So whether you're a parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent, friend or someone just curious about how to support young people in your life, Billy has advice for navigating challenging moments.
And please note, one of the questions is a bit heavy, touching on the topic of suicidality. Please take care while listening.
Guest:
Dr Billy GarveyDevelopmental paediatricianAuthor, Ten things I wish you knew about your child's mental healthPodcast co-host, Pop Culture ParentingFounder, Guiding Growing Minds
Credits:
- Present/producer: Sana Qadar
- Senior producer: James Bullen
- Producer: Rose Kerr
- Sound engineer: Antonia Gauci
More information:
'Bad behaviour' or just misunderstood? What to know about kids' mental health
Support resources:
Lifeline 13 11 14
13YARN 13 92 76
Transcript
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| 0:41.3 | The thing you don't realize until you become apparent is that when you become a parent, |
| 0:47.6 | everyone has advice and an opinion. |
| 0:49.8 | And a lot of it feels questionable or not exactly grounded in evidence. |
| 0:55.0 | And often you're just left with more questions. |
| 0:58.0 | Should you really ignore tantrums in order to starve them of attention? |
| 1:03.0 | Will sleep training mess up your baby's attachment for life? |
| 1:07.0 | How do you help an anxious kid? |
| 1:10.0 | And what do you do if a young child, when they are extremely distressed, talks about killing themselves? |
| 1:17.5 | These are just some of the questions you sent us for this mailbag episode of All in the Mind with Dr. Billy Garvey, |
| 1:24.7 | a developmental pediatrician who first came on All In The Mind in 2025 |
| 1:29.4 | for an episode called Bad Behavior or Just Misunderstood, What to Know About Kids' Mental Health. |
| 1:36.9 | A lot of manifestations in the young years of anxiety is agitation, anger, aggression, outbursts. |
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