274 | Organized Kids
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan talk about raising organized children with behavioral and developmental pediatrician Dr. Damon Korb, and they answer the following questions:
What are executive functions? (01:34)
What is behavioral pediatrics? (02:18)
What do you mean by “organized children”? (02:47)
How has the pandemic affected children’s health? (03:24)
How do we set appropriate boundaries with our children? (04:58)
How do we help our children adopt minimalist practices that stick at an early age so they don’t lose them and suffer the consequences in adulthood? (05:38)
How can we be minimalist parents? (06:50)
How can we teach our children to be problem-solvers? (09:51)
How can we help our children deal with boredom? (10:35)
What advice do you have for first-time parents? (14:43)
How do you balance setting boundaries with a child while still allowing them room to explore and learn about who they are? (19:16)
How do we appropriately handle our expectations regarding our children? (21:54)
What are the “5 H’s” regarding kids? (27:30)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Minimalists is brought to you by... |
| 0:02.7 | Nobody. |
| 0:03.7 | Because advertisements suck. |
| 0:05.7 | Time Minimists. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello everybody, welcome to The Minimalist Podcast. |
| 0:41.4 | We discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:44.4 | My name is Joshua Fields-Milburn. |
| 0:45.9 | And I'm Ryan Nicodemis and together we are the minimalists. |
| 0:48.6 | Today we're going to talk about raising organized children. |
| 0:51.9 | And of course there's a book of roughly the same title. |
| 0:55.9 | And we have Dr. Damon Corrup here to discuss it. |
| 0:59.3 | So, doc, I figure we would start by just... |
| 1:03.9 | In your book you say organized children are not born, they are raised. |
| 1:09.1 | What do you mean by this? |
| 1:11.1 | Well, we're born with a certain capacity. |
| 1:14.6 | But that capacity, depending on how we teach and we educate our kids, |
| 1:18.1 | it changes greatly. |
| 1:19.7 | Starting when kids are infants all the way through adolescence, |
| 1:23.1 | we keep growing and developing what we call our executive functions, especially. |
| 1:26.9 | That's what we're talking about with organization is our executive functions. |
| 1:30.1 | Okay. |
| 1:31.1 | So, well, I'm a little ignorant here. |
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