E116: Essential Parenting Principles with Dr. Meg Meeker

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Lila Rose

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Today I sit down with Dr. Meg Meeker, a renowned pediatrician, author and leading authority on parenting and children’s health. In our conversation, Dr. Meeker shares her insights on the critical role of strong parenting in shaping healthy, well-adjusted children. We cover a wide range of topics, including the sexualization of teenagers, encouraging young girls to embrace modesty, dealing with temper tantrums, and helping children feel loved while establishing boundaries. We also discuss strategies to avoid shaming your child, addressing pornography exposure, promoting dad-inclusive parenting, and more. Join us as we explore practical advice and the foundational principles that help parents raise confident and capable children.

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0:00.0	How do you make sure that your child feels loved by you, especially when you're having to enforce boundaries?
0:06.0	We don't give our kids enough attention. We may be in the same room, but cell phones and screens kill the attention we give our kids.
0:14.0	Kids feel ignored and invisible when we don't pay any attention.
0:18.1	Kids need affection and if you have a negative interaction with your child repeatedly, it's hard to give that child
0:24.4	affection. They need affirmation, not g you're great at everything, but they need affirmation
0:30.1	of their character. You get those right, your child will listen to anything you have to say.
0:39.9	Hello, hello. Welcome back to the Lila Rose Podcast.
0:42.9	We're going to get into parenting today
0:44.5	on the episode with an amazing pediatrician
0:46.8	and best-selling author, Dr. Meg Meeker.
0:49.6	I love this episode because we get into all of the tough stuff of parenting, spanking,
0:54.6	timeouts, how to deal with the sexualization of teenagers, sexual abuse,
0:58.6	really tough topics that in today's climate unfortunately some parents are having to navigate more than other.
1:04.0	So buckle up and enjoy this episode of the Lila Rose Podcast.
1:07.6	Dr Meeker, welcome to the podcast.
1:10.0	Oh, thanks for having me, Lila.
1:12.2	It's great to meet you.
1:13.5	You are a pediatrician, a best-selling author.
1:16.6	You've written seven books, I think, if I counted correctly?
1:19.7	That's it.
1:20.3	That's right.
1:21.8	Awesome.
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