1KHO 831: Resilience Across the Lifespan | Dr. Steven Baron, Teaching With a Strengths-Based Approach

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Every child is carrying strengths that are easy to miss when we're focused on fixing what's wrong. In this encouraging conversation, psychologist Dr. Steven Baron shares why resilience grows when children are seen for their gifts, not just their struggles, and how one caring adult can change the trajectory of a young person's life. We talk about confidence, mistakes, anxiety, screens, nature, movement, and the simple practices that help kids flourish at home and in the classroom. This episode is a powerful reminder that children don't need perfect adults. They need adults who believe in them. Listen now on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast with Ginny Yurich. Learn more at DrStevenBaron.com. Check out Teaching With a Strengths-Based Approach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.0	Welcome to the 1,000 hours outside podcast.
0:25.5	My name is Ginny Urich and the founder of 1,000 hours outside.
0:28.1	And I have a wonderful guest today who is helping parents and teachers to look at their
0:33.6	kids with a strength-based approach.
0:36.2	It is so encouraging and are so needed. Dr. Stephen Barron,
0:39.9	welcome. Thank you so much, Jenny. A pleasure to be here. Okay, so you are a New York State
0:44.9	licensed psychologist as well as a nationally certified school psychologist. Can you give us a
0:49.4	little of your backstory here? You wrote this book called Teaching with a Strength-based
0:53.3	Approach, How to
0:54.7	Motivate Students and Build Relationships. And one of the things I was going to say to you,
0:57.8	Dr. Barron, is, oh, these things could really be applicable to parents as well. And then you told me
1:03.0	you actually have another book that's going to be coming out that is applied to parents
1:07.5	called the Strength Building Parent. But what is your backstory of taking this
1:12.7	approach? Because often, often, and I think this has been for a long time, we're constantly
1:17.7	talking about what's wrong, how can we fix this thing that's wrong? And you're looking at it
1:22.2	from a different perspective. That's very true, Jenny. My backstory is essentially, as you mentioned, I was a school psychologist for 30 years.
1:30.9	And what I discovered during that time was that there was such an emphasis on why is it Jimmy
1:37.4	reading?
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