1KHO 114: The High Cost of Over-parenting and Understanding the Damage | Dr. Madeline Levine, Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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I was on the edge of my seat while I read her book, I was on the edge of my seat during this conversation, and I was on the edge of my seat while I edited it. You're going to love this one and you may even listen to it twice! If it's a favorite of yours, like it's a favorite of mine, share it with friends and family and make sure to subscribe and leave a review. In this week's episode of the podcast, I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Madeline Levine, a renowned psychologist and expert on child development with 40 years experience. One of the main themes of the conversation was the importance of understanding our failures in order to discover our strengths. Dr. Levine noted that often times, we learn the most from our mistakes and that they can serve as valuable learning experiences. She calls it trial-and-error learning instead of failure. Another key point that was discussed was the idea that most people do not have a straight path to success. Dr. Levine emphasized the importance of recognizing that life is a series of small challenges, and if we can meet them, we go on to bigger and bigger challenges. Additionally, Dr. Levine highlighted the damaging effects of being an over-involved parent and the importance of allowing our children to experience unhappiness. She also discussed the lack of management skills among today's youth, specifically in areas such as risk management and conflict management. Dr. Levine also urged listeners to think long and hard about what's going to matter in the long run, and emphasized the link between optimism and healthy mental health outcomes. She even talked about preparing ourselves for when our kids leave the nest. Overall, this is a thought-provoking and enlightening conversation with Dr. Levine, and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did! Learn more about Dr. Madeline Levine here >> www.madelinelevine.com Grab your copy of Ready or Not here >> https://amzn.to/3WNfJ69 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Jenny Yurich. I'm the founder of 1000
0:05.3	Hours Outside and I have just read the most phenomenal book, Thought Provoking, from cover to cover and the author is here with us what a treat Dr Madeline
0:15.8	welcome thank you thanks for your kind words I mean cover to cover this one is a
0:21.5	page turner the one I read of yours and it's one of several books that you have is called Ready or Not
0:26.9	Preparing our kids to thrive in an uncertain and rapidly changing world. What a title. That one draws every parent in. Absolutely. So that book was published the week before lockdown for COVID and I had no idea. I was writing it two years before that right but yeah yeah can you even
0:46.7	imagine the timing could not have been more perfect so you are a psychologist with close to 40 years
0:51.6	experience as a clinician, consultant, educator, and author,
0:55.5	the author of New York Times bestsellers, teach your children well, the price of privilege,
1:00.5	the co-founder of Challenge Success, you have a whole lot going on.
1:05.0	Can you just tell us a little bit about your path and a little bit of your story here
1:10.0	to these books and these different topics that you so eloquently write about.
1:14.4	Thanks, that's great. I like that question because it gives me the chance to illustrate
1:19.3	something that I think is really important, which is that most people don't have a straight path.
1:24.8	You know, the idea that you've got to get your kid into the right kindergarten, so they'll
1:28.9	get into the right high school, so they'll get into the right college, so they'll get a good job with a lot of money.
1:34.3	Like that straight line trajectory is actually a lot of mythology and when I used to speak for years I put up a slide saying did you take the straight path or the
1:45.6	squiggly path and no matter where I was in the country no matter where or in Hong Kong
1:50.8	at Goldman Sachs or at my local fire station.
1:54.1	Only 1 to 10 percent of people took a straight path.
1:58.0	So that's the context.
1:59.5	I went to the State University of New York at Buffalo.
2:02.1	My dad unfortunately died when I was very young so we had very little in the way of resources. We were on welfare and I became a teacher first because that's I needed to make a living as soon as I got at
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