This is Ask Lisa, a podcast to help people understand the psychology of parenting.

Psychologist Dr. Lisa DeMore, author of two New York Times best-selling parenting books, takes

your questions.

And I'm co-host, Rina Ninan, a journalist and mom of two.

Some of what we talk about comes from raising children ourselves. Most of the time, I'll be getting answers to your parenting questions.

So send your questions to Ask Lisa at Dr.Lisademore.com. We know that building confidence in kids

and teens is something many parents struggle with.

In Lisa's book under pressure, she talks about how schools can often serve as a confidence

factory for kids. But what do you do when that factory is disrupted by a pandemic?

And how do you help navigate social media when the focus is often about perfection?

Episode 64 and Encore from last fall,

how do I build my kids confidence and self-esteem?

You know, it's an adjustment for so many people getting the kids back in school,

and it's the little things like my son being able to bike to school.

There's this layer of confidence now that he's like the fifth grader who can bike to school.

That's cool, that he can do that.

So he takes his bike every day and parks it there?

He just started doing that.

And it's exciting to see these little things that are actually big things now.

Yeah, that's a nice way to put it.

It's a letter we got is actually talking about building self-esteem and self-confidence,

and it says, Dear Lisa, how can we talk about self-esteem and self-worth with teenage girls?

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