220: How to be a Good Enough Parent with Tracey Fox

The Scummy Mummies Podcast

Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn

Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Parenting, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Why are perfect parents bad for kids? How can finding your child in tears be a good sign? And what can parents of teens can learn from hostage negotiators? Answering all these questions is the awesome Tracey Fox!

She tells us about her work with Alain de Botton and the School of Life, and the excellent book The Good Enough Parent. We find out why Tracey gets excited when she hears someone is going through tough times. She gives us some advice on managing screen time, coping with conflict, and saying no, and mediates a long-running argument about the correct amount of milk in tea.

The Good Enough Parent: How to Raise Contented, Interesting and Resilient Children is out now. For more from Tracey, check out traceyfox.co.uk.

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0:00.0	Hello scumbags, this is the scummy mammy's podcast, with your hosts, Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorne.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to the scummy mammy's podcast, it's me Ellie Gibson.
0:21.0	And it's me, Helen Thorne.
0:22.0	And it's you, Tracy Fox. Hello Tracy.
0:25.0	Hi. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you for coming along.
0:28.0	And we're very pleased to have you with us, Tracy.
0:30.0	And could you, for the listener, explain who you are Tracy, for what, who are you?
0:35.0	So I am, I suppose I am here because of one of my roles as a business faculty for the School of Life.
0:43.0	So I teach emotional intelligence workshops in business for the School of Life.
0:48.0	Beyond that, I'm, I'm many things, I'm a mediator, I am a facilitator, I'm an executive coach.
0:57.0	And yeah, that's, she's basically changing lives, Ellie.
1:00.0	I was going to say something very rude.
1:03.0	I was like, how should I say, you've been fixing men?
1:06.0	Because when you say these things, I think, you're fixing men.
1:10.0	It's, it's true to an extent.
1:13.0	Yeah. When we, when I teach on the, on conflict management skills courses and on the, when I teach mediators,
1:20.0	it is often the men who seem to have a light bulb switched on when I talk about listening.
1:26.0	And managing emotions and, you know, they sometimes they can't get it.
1:30.0	And I don't want to be, you know, gender biased here.
1:33.0	But it is often, no, you're welcome to do that.
1:36.0	Oh, and there was once, there was once a course where a gentleman went home after the first day, came about the second day.
1:42.0	And we've, we've been teaching active listening on the previous day.
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