Dr. Eliza Pressman 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 Eliza 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 time out 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 Eliza today too. All right, today I have the pleasure of having Dr. Eliza 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 Eliza. Hi thank you so much I'm

excited to be here with you in Zoom in the Zoom universe. Yes I'm so excited to.

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 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, but 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 information is out there but sort of either stuck in the dusty sort of well it's all

online now but the kind of dusty world of academia or locked in the online world of academia and not out there for

families and so it just meant a lot to me that we have a lot of research.

There's a lot we don't know and so we can't do

anything about that and there's a lot that isn't in our control and we can't do

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