Dr. Becky Kennedy, THAT'S MY TRUCK!: A Good Inside Story About Hitting
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Beloved parenting expert, clinical psychologist, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Becky Kennedy chats with Zibby about her highly anticipated debut picture book, THAT’S MY TRUCK!, which tackles one of the most common parenting challenges: hitting. Dr. Becky shares the inspiration behind the book, the psychology of hitting, and the power of addressing kids’ behavior with empathy rather than punishment. She also shares her shift away from traditional parenting methods and the Good Inside philosophy she developed, which focuses on skills over punishment and has become a popular parenting movement.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Dr. Becky Kennedy is the author of That's My Truck, a good inside story about |
| 0:49.9 | hitting. Dr. Becky is the clinical psychologist and mom of three behind the breakthrough parenting |
| 0:54.8 | company Good Inside. She specializes in helping parents become sturdy leaders in their homes |
| 1:00.5 | by sharing the skills and strategies parents need to raise resilient kids. Dr. Becky is a number |
| 1:06.0 | one New York Times best-selling author, a TED speaker, and the host of the chart-topping podcast, Good Inside with |
| 1:12.3 | Dr. Becky, and has amassed a global following of millions of parents. Welcome, Dr. Becky. I'm so excited |
| 1:18.5 | to be talking to you today. Congratulations on That's My Truck, a Good Inside story about hitting. |
| 1:24.7 | Yay. Thank you so much for having me. So excited to finally talk to you. Yay. And as we're |
| 1:29.6 | talking, I know you hit the USA Today list so high up this morning. Really exciting. No surprise, but |
| 1:35.8 | yay. Thank you. Tell listeners about the book. And if for some reason they have not heard of you yet |
| 1:42.4 | and don't know about your expertise in the parenting |
| 1:45.0 | space and what has made you so just such a sensation in terms of how you think about |
| 1:51.2 | parenting and kids and humanity and all of it give a little spiel about that too you know |
| 1:57.7 | first of all i just i love children's books so much. I really believe children's |
| 2:04.2 | books can bring these kind of moments of connection between a parent and a kid that I think |
| 2:09.7 | sometimes are really hard to generate on your own at the end of the day when you're stressed and |
| 2:13.2 | overwhelmed. And if you reach for the right book, then in my mind has kind of a really meaningful, |
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