Raising Families Provides Parenting Playbook to Raise Resilient Kids
- Jun 7
- 3 min read
By Dr. Jerry Weichman, Ph.D.
Raising Families with Dr. Jerry
Over the course of his 27-year career working with over 6,500 families, Dr. Jerry Weichman, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, adolescent mental health specialist, and proud father of an elementary, middle-, and high-schooler, has helped families solve everything from self-esteem and academic performance issues; to social addiction and cyber-bullying.
Along the way, Dr. Weichman realized that while parents are proactive in wanting to help their kids handle the tough moments in life, there were no real-life, simple to implement tools that actually worked.
Despite the resources available to parents during pregnancy, Dr. Weichman found no practical or effective information available from a trusted source on how to teach mental health tools that prepare children for the adversities of life.
Dr. Weichman also noticed parents and children suffering from a consistent, high degree of stress, burn out and low-grade depression known as Dysthymia. For parents, the struggle resulted from trying to keep up with the rate and pace of today’s times, and has led to a decline in mental health, making them more reactive to their own and their children’s struggles, while causing the family to suffer unnecessarily.
These trends negatively shaping our families and the next generation inspired Dr. Weichman to create Raising Families with Dr. Jerry, a free-to-access digital and podcast platform.
With his co-host, a real-life mom to a middle- and high-schooler, and joined by guest experts, Dr. Weichman aims to normalize the struggles of parenthood and provide parents with practical advice. He also encourages them to adopt sound mental health practices early to raise more resilient children that are better equipped to navigate life’s challenges before social, academic and other pressures begin.
Through open conversations and monologues that address a host of issues with actionable strategies, podcast themes include:
Resilience is foundational to a child’s mental health and can even reduce the likelihood of suicide. How can parents foster greater emotional durability in their children?
How giving kids the space to fail may be the most loving thing a parent can do.
How to teach our kids (and ourselves) control and adaptation to the world around us, to embrace the curveballs and reduce stress.
How the desire to exert control over our kids and their behavior leads to disconnection, emotional burnout, and feeling overwhelmed.
What is the Overthinking Epidemic; how kids and teens are especially vulnerable; and how it leads to anxiety, depression and self-esteem issues.
How boys and girls process thoughts and feelings differently; and how understanding each can improve communications with our kids.
How to teach ourselves and our children positive thinking, an immediate mood elevator for our thoughts and feelings that redirects how we interpret the world around us.
Raising Families is rooted in Dr. Weichman’s Bi-Pyramid of Mental Health framework that results in better functioning families while helping kids feel better, perform better, build resilience, and better prepare them for life.
When practiced by parents and taught to children, ideally before age 11, the by-pyramid’s combination of psychological and physiological techniques provides the tools to help them manage their mental health before adversity hits beginning in middle school. As kids carry these tools into adulthood, the results can create a generational change in mental health problems.
Ultimately, the goal of Raising Families is to elevate the entire family system by arming parents with tools they can pass along to their children before mental health challenges take hold.
Thanks to Dr. Jerry Weichman, families now have free access to a parenting playbook that works. Just straight forward, consistent and accessible information available to any family wanting to improve their family’s mental health.
Connect With Dr. Jerry
Instagram: @drjerryweichman
YouTube: @RaisingFamilieswithDrJW
TikTok: @drjerryweichman
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