Growing Pains
by HoneyKids Asia
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How to Handle a Tantrum Without Losing Your Mind
How to Handle a Tantrum Without Losing Your Mind
About this podcast
Growing Pains is a podcast from HoneyKids Asia for the conversations parents want to have after the kids go to bed.
In each episode, we speak to experts, parents, and people with lived experience about the realities of raising kids today — from relationships, identity, mental health and screen time to school pressure, family dynamics, and everything in between.
These are honest, thoughtful conversations that say the things many parents are thinking, but rarely say out loud. No judgement, no perfect parenting, just real stories, practical insights, and a reminder that none of us are figuring it out alone.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 81 episodes
- How to Handle a Tantrum Without Losing Your Mind · 55 min · Season 8 Episode 24What if the hardest part of disciplining your child is you? Parent educator Kim DeMarchi has spent more than 30 years working with families, training thousands of parents around…
- What Maternity Leave Can Really Cost Working Mothers · 42 min · Season 8 Episode 23You were told to keep your head down, do good work and wait to be noticed. That may have cost you. Our guest spent ten years inside the rooms where promotions and pay rises get…
- Why Calling Food “Good” and “Bad” Can Backfire · 52 min · Season 8 Episode 22You grew up on ’90s diet culture. And now you are the one setting the tone at your own dinner table. Black plastic? Non-stick pans? Superfoods? On this episode of Growing Pains…
- The Wedding Photo That Became National News in Singapore · 40 min · Season 8 Episode 21Her wedding portrait appeared on an outdoor stage in Singapore, faces cut out, as a Hari Raya decoration. She never agreed to it. She spoke up, and it became a national story…
- Are Devices Making Children Less Creative? · 42 min · Season 8 Episode 20Some children walk into a room full of toys and say they don't know how to play. Lovleen Walia hears it more than you would think. She is a certified Play Therapist in Singapore…
- Is the Beauty Industry Creating Problems Just to Sell the Solution? · 29 min · Season 8 Episode 19Every clinic in Singapore has a TikTok now. Every influencer has an opinion on your pores. But there is one aesthetic doctor known less for what she sells and more for what she…
- Why We Never Had to Tell Him He Was Adopted · 46 min · Season 8 Episode 18At twenty-something, she promised her mother a private jet by the time she turned fifty. Instead, she walked away from a safe accounting career in Malaysia and got on a plane to…
- Gentle vs. Tiger vs. Authoritative Parenting · 60 min · Season 8 Episode 17Too Strict? Too Soft? Which Parenting Style Actually Works? Three parenting philosophies just went head to head, live, in front of an audience, and nobody left the stage…
- Why Parents Need To Heal Their Inner Child — with Crystal Lim-Lange · 46 min · Season 8 Episode 16Something Crystal Lim-Lange said about why Singaporeans don't speak up went viral, then landed her a cover story in The Straits Times. It touched a nerve because it wasn't really…
- Why Stay-At-Home Motherhood Can Destroy Your Identity · 52 min · Season 8 Episode 15Faz Gaffa says something most parenting platforms will not: it is okay to sit in a car park and scream before you walk back inside. She is the editor of Honey Kids Asia, a…
- Fame, Motherhood, Body Image & The Impossible Standards Women Face · 43 min · Season 8 Episode 14She was topping charts across three countries before she could vote. Then the industry that made her famous told her to shrink, and she nearly disappeared trying to do it. Ming…
- How to Become a Mother Without Losing Yourself · 47 min · Season 8 Episode 13She had four children, two marriages, and once lived in the same building as her ex-husband while married to her current one. Christine Amour-Levar built a life most people would…
- Is Motherhood Quietly Erasing the Real You? · 53 min · Season 8 Episode 12She built one of Singapore's most awarded agencies. She dressed the biggest names in fashion. She raised two boys. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, she stopped…
- Can Women Really Have It All? We’re Asking the Wrong Question · 51 min · Season 8 Episode 11Sharon Wong walked away from a high-flying corporate career with zero retail experience and built one of Asia's leading mother and baby brands across four countries. Twenty-eight…
- How to Raise Indistractable Kids · 57 min · Season 8 Episode 10Your brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second. You consciously process about 50. The rest gets filled in by beliefs, and those same beliefs, the ones you don't…
- The Love Patterns Your Kids Are Copying From You (Whether You Know It or Not) · 54 min · Season 8 Episode 9Every self-help book tells you to love yourself first before you can be loved by anyone else. Yana Fry, founder of the Academy of Love, says that advice is a trap, and she has…
- Why People-Pleasing is a Health Risk · 47 min · Season 8 Episode 8Krystal Clavier-Choo is an applied psychologist and two-time TEDx speaker who once built a tech company, then one day, things changed. A brain cyst erased her Type A identity…
- Why Telling Someone to Be Grateful Can Make Things Worse · 50 min · Season 8 Episode 7The Happiness Scientist Who Stopped Pretending to Be Happy Sha-En Yeo spent her teenage years being bullied in a girls' school, quietly asking herself "is this it?" A teacher…
- Why This Content Creator Won't Let Her Daughters Use Social Media · 41 min · Season 8 Episode 6Maggie Dumra films her family for content and after over 78,000 followers later, she still won't let her own daughters near social media. The contradiction sits at the centre of…
- The Kids Getting Top Grades Are Secretly Struggling · 37 min · Season 8 Episode 5Every parent in Singapore thinks about it. Not everyone says it out loud. The pressure our kids are under to perform, to get the grade, to stay ahead, starts earlier than most of…
