Dr. Becky Kennedy on Raising Resilient Kids, Handling Tantrums, and Letting Go of Mom Guilt
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Cameron Oaks Rogers
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with parenting expert and founder of Good Inside, Dr. Becky Kennedy, to talk about building resilience for our kids and finding patience in parenting. We break down the difference between “sturdy” parenting and “gentle” parenting, how to set boundaries with your kids while staying emotionally connected, and why our job as parents isn’t to make our kids happy all the time. Dr. Becky shares practical parenting tips for handling big feelings and difficult behaviors (especially hitting and tantrums), why allowing space for all feelings actually builds confidence, mom rage, the importance of repair, and why the perfect parent doesn’t and shouldn’t exist.
Key Takeaway / Points:
Dr. Becky’s Good Inside approach for building resilience and confidence in kids
What "sturdy parenting" actually means
Why optimizing for your kid's happiness right now could be wiring them for anxiety later
How to handle hitting in toddlers: what to do in the moment and how to prevent it from happening again
Her “sitting on the feelings bench" concept and why sitting with your kid's hard emotions is actually the key to raising a confident adult
How to repair after you've lost it on your kids (because we all do)
Why “mom guilt” doesn’t help anyone
What to expect from Good Inside Baby
Coloring confessionals: the myth of being a perfect parent, most overrated parenting advice, and her favorite go-to parenting hack
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I know so many of you are excited about today's episode, and let me just say, so am I. |
| 0:05.3 | Today's guest is none other than the Dr. Becky Kennedy. |
| 0:09.3 | If you are a parent, you know who Dr. Becky is. |
| 0:12.0 | She has taken the world by storm, quite honestly, and I love so many of her approaches that we |
| 0:16.6 | dive into today. |
| 0:18.1 | She is a clinical psychologist, mom of three, and founder of Good Inside. Her approach |
| 0:23.4 | is focusing on the parent behind the parenting and the child behind the behavior. You probably |
| 0:28.5 | have heard, you're not a bad kid, you're just having a hard time. That is like Dr. Becky in a |
| 0:33.8 | nutshell. She believes that there is good inside everyone, and that is the mantra to go back to |
| 0:38.1 | when you are having a hard day as a parent as well. This episode is truly for every kind of |
| 0:43.0 | parent trying and doing their best. We talk about how to parent what she calls the deeply |
| 0:47.9 | feeling kids, mom gilts. I love her take on that. She defines what our actual job is as parents because like what, |
| 0:55.5 | what is our job, quite honestly? We talk about sitting on the feelings bench with our child |
| 1:00.2 | and how to navigate those emotions. And so many of you asked to get into like the toddler |
| 1:06.1 | hitting phase and what the heck we're supposed to do around it. So we dove very deeply into that as well. |
| 1:12.1 | We also talk about the very exciting new launch of Good Inside Baby. And speaking of all |
| 1:18.5 | things, Baby, today's episode is sponsored by Genexha. Genexa is the first clean medicine |
| 1:24.1 | company offering medicine to help with fever, coughs, colds, and even aches |
| 1:28.3 | and pains made with the same active ingredients as other brands, but with zero percent |
| 1:33.5 | artificial additives. I love their products from my older kids. I've been using them for a very |
| 1:38.6 | long time and I'm so excited about their baby's first sick day kit. So in the baby's first sick day kit, they have the |
| 1:47.2 | infants pain reliever and fever reducer, and then they also have the infants daytime, cough, |
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