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U.K.-slash-wondery. That's audible.com.uk-slash-wondery. Dr. Alisa Presman is a developmental

psychologist, parent educator, assistant clinical professor, and co-founder of both Mount Sinai Parenting Center and Seedlings Group.

As a mother of two, she also hosts the podcast Raising Good Humans, where she shares her parenting

advice from a clinical, academic, and mom perspective. Today, Alisa and I have a conversation

all about my most recent parenting questions like how to teach

kids good work ethic over the summer, applying choices and consequences appropriately in parenting,

using timeout effectively, teaching kids to respect adults, and how to talk to your kids about

all the complex issues going on in the world right now. This interview was incredible, and I cannot wait for you guys to listen to and learn from

Alisa today, too.

All right.

Today I have the pleasure of having Dr. Alisa Pressman with me, and I am so thrilled

to have her on this podcast.

She has our own podcast, which I'm

obsessed with, even just the title, is so good, raising good humans, because I'm constantly thinking

about how do I make sure that my little humans are good people? So say hi, Elisa. Hi, thank you so much. I'm excited to be here with you in Zoom,

in the Zoom universe. Yes, I'm so excited too. Let's talk about your background and how long

you've been doing this and why you had an interest in helping people raise good humans.

Well, I started to study human development

before I had kids or anything. And I just felt I actually was really interested in psychology

and social, emotional well-being, and how kind of brains grow, but just intellectually. And then I started that journey

academically and had kids around the same time. And so I really got obsessed with how much

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