228: Helicopter Parenting & Raising Resilient Kids - Jessica Lahey
ON AIR WITH ELLA | Women's Wellness
Ella Lucas-Averett
5.0 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Jessica Lahey joins us to talk about:
- The great backfiring of "helicopter parenting"
- The problem with viewing our children's accomplishments as a measure of our own success
- Letting our children fail is a gift
- Ideally we want to raise our children for independence, equipping them to live in the reality of the world. But, HOW?
SHOW NOTES: www.onairella.com/post/228-the-gift-of-failure
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| 0:00.0 | Think a little bit about what's happening every single time you rescue your kid. You're reinforcing their inability to feel frustrated. You're saving them from those feelings of frustration and not sort of tempering that emotion, letting them feel it and sort of be comfortable with it. And you're actually undermining their ability to learn in the long run. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome. You're on air with Ella where we share simple strategies and tips from people who are doing |
| 0:25.0 | something better than we are. |
| 0:27.0 | Whether it's wellness or relationships to just living better and with more energy or changing |
| 0:31.6 | your mindset to accomplish more in your own life and succeeding however you define it. |
| 0:36.4 | This is where we share the best of what we're |
| 0:37.9 | learning from the experts and we're learning more every day. Live better. Start now. Hey, we're going to |
| 0:47.3 | dive in here in just a minute to a cool episode with Jessica Leahy, but I wanted to chat with you |
| 0:52.1 | first. So first of all, thank you to my Patreon |
| 0:55.8 | patrons. I had a really fun Zoom call with some of you last week, and of course it was fun and fabulous, |
| 1:01.5 | and that stuff just lights me up. So I'm going to start doing that monthly. If you don't know what I'm |
| 1:05.7 | talking about, go to Patreon and search on air with Ella, or just look in the show notes and if you are one of the |
| 1:11.4 | handful of people that took two minutes to leave a review for the show in Apple podcast recently |
| 1:16.4 | this is a big fat virtual smooch i'm talking to dr janet e i'm talking to maggie d and |
| 1:23.6 | kelly c and mjoy p thank you for rhyming. Deanna, Arlie K, Lindsay, and H-R-R-I-L-E, |
| 1:33.6 | codename, H-R-R-R-E. And that's just in the U.S. I will get to the other countries in a future show. |
| 1:39.4 | Thank you, thank you for the feedback and for taking the time. I really appreciate it. |
| 1:43.9 | All right. Thanks for indulging me. Now on to today's topic. I don't do a lot of shows on the |
| 1:50.2 | topic of parenting for lots of reasons. Namely, I think that there is plenty of amazing content |
| 1:55.7 | out there from people who have a lot more to say than I do. I have, however, done an interview with both of my kiddos, |
| 2:02.6 | both the one that I gave birth to, and that's episode 85. |
| 2:05.7 | He was 15 at the time. |
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