168: Siri, Send Help! How to Use AI in the Trenches of Parenthood with Michelle Tangeman

Motherhood Meets Medicine

If there was a program out there that could help you plan your weekly meals, come up with fun activities for your kids, give you gift and party ideas and so much more… would you use it?

Fun fact, this does exist! It’s called AI and tools like Chat GPT and Gemini are an amazing way to take off some of the mental load and stress of making day to day decisions. Here to share more is Michelle Tangeman.

Before opening Michelle Tangeman Behavioral Health as a child and family therapist, Michelle served as a Clinical Manager for STAR of CA, where she oversaw a clinical team providing children's behavioral treatment programs. Michelle has extensive experience and individualized behavior intervention, functional behavior assessments, school based services, family focused intervention, Early Start services and social skills training, and has provided these services to families across Ventura, and Los Angeles counties. She has also completed the training as part of the Postpartum Support internationals advanced perinatal mental health psychotherapy training program.

When she's not helping parents and families as a therapist. She is a mother of two beautiful children. As a parent, she knows how challenging it can be combining her personal experience as a parent. Along with her behavioral health background, she launched her online education company thriving toddler through thriving toddler courses and free resources. She aims to help as many people as possible become the parents they want to be. Michelle is also a podcast host and the Co-Founder of the Parenting Understood Podcast. Michelle and her co host are passionate about teaching parents about evidence based interventions grounded in science to make a positive impact on the parent child relationship.

I know that we can all use more time in our day. Using AI to help take some of the mental load off our plates can definitely change the way we tackle all the responsibilities of life and parenting for the better.

In this episode, we discuss:

Ways to use AI assisted tools like Gemini or Chat gpt in your daily parenting.

Which prompts make your life as a parent a little easier.

Resources:

Badass Matriarch-https://lynzyandco.substack.com/

Connect with Michelle:

Michelle Tangeman -https://michelletangeman.com/

Pocket Parent Membership

https://www.thrivingtoddler.com/pocketparent

Toddler Tantrum Master Class -https://www.thrivingtoddler.com/

Questions:

What exactly is executive functioning?

How can parents promote executive functioning skills in toddlers?

What is toxic stress and how does that play into brain development and child development outcomes?

Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The information on this podcast is for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

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