Your kid slams his bedroom door in your face, and five minutes later, he's giving you puppy eyes asking for a snack. Why is he like that?

On I Hate You. What's For Dinner?, we explore whether childhood explains everything.

We're Gillian Boudreau and Rob Galligan—two clinical psychologists in private practice who met in our psych PhD program a couple decades ago. Since then, we've been mulling over what hurts and what heals in people. As psychologists who work with kids and families, we're constantly mining childhoods past for memories and clues.

We'll be featuring guests who are musicians, comedians, entrepreneurs, therapists, and writers. Each episode asks: Who were you when you were little, and how has that made you who you are now?

The psychoanalytic theory, neuroscience, and developmental psychology we studied in grad school often feel like the secret decoder ring to people's toughest problems. These everyday struggles often come down to what we want the most and what we're most afraid of.

We'll ask our biggest questions about the love and hate, the rage and fear, and the awesome and mundane that all get smushed together when we're growing up.

Tune in to make better sense of childhood, parenthood, and life in general.

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