2575: Raising Resilient Children With Jen Cohen

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The Secret to Raising Mentally Strong Kids in a Fragile World with Jen Cohen

The reasoning behind her latest Ted talk. (2:02)
Characteristics of a “gentle” parent. (4:52)
Why aren’t parents letting their kids struggle? (7:51)
The two things that have CRUSHED mental resilience in kids. (11:37)
The barrier to entry to date a person is so low. (18:11)
How kids mimic what they see. (20:22)
Building life skills through challenge. (22:08)
If you have too many options, you end up with nothing. (25:20)
Sports and kids: The good, the bad, and the ugly. (27:33)
Creating a ‘Lord of the Flies’ scenario with our kids. (34:47)
The root of ‘woke’ culture. (38:59)
How to avoid your kids feeling isolated as a parent. (47:58)
Alarming statistics in our current culture. (50:41)
There is a light at the end of the tunnel. (54:55)
Allowing your children to overcome challenges in an age-appropriate way. (1:01:51)
Have traditional values around gender roles played a part in these issues? (1:06:25)
The importance of banding together as parents. (1:16:53)

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Featured Guest/People Mentioned

Jen Cohen (@therealjencohen) Instagram
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Transcript

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0:00.0	If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
0:06.3	Mind Pump, Mind Pump with your hosts.
0:09.2	Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.4	You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast.
0:17.2	This is Mind Pump.
0:18.4	Today's episode, we had our friend Jen Cohen back on the show.
0:22.0	And in this episode, we talked about raising resilient children.
0:24.9	She did a very popular talk at TEDx.
0:27.7	The title of that was The Secret to Raising Mentally Strong Kids in a Fragile World.
0:32.0	And we're all fathers.
0:33.3	She's a mother.
0:34.6	It was a great discussion around raising children in today's world.
0:38.1	By the way, you could find Jen at the real Jen Cohen.
0:42.3	That's C-O-H-E-N on Instagram.
0:45.9	She's great.
0:47.0	Go check it out.
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