Ep 20: Drew Barrymore and Dr Aliza Pressman and the holiday episode: is Santa real, weird elf on the shelf issues, making meaningful traditions, and holiday feelings.

Raising Good Humans

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Drew Barrymore thinks about the holidays, the pressure and the meaning. Also we are tackling some of the inevitable questions that come up during the holiday season, from making meaning, underplaying materialism, enjoying rituals, and what to say to our children about Santa.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:02.8	Hello and welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:09.2	I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and today I'm here with Drew Barrymore and we're going to talk about special
0:16.0	holiday topics. One thing that's very important is that you don't listen to this if there
0:21.6	are children listening. There are a lot of
0:24.1	spoilers. But we get lost in commerce and wanting and lists and Santa and the
0:29.6	elf is watching and oh my god wait what are we talking about oh my god and the elf is
0:34.4	watching or the mench on a bench depending on your we have both right there you go
0:39.0	you're actually your kids celebrate both yeah Yeah. Mine just do.
0:43.4	Mench on a bench.
0:44.1	Mench on a bench, except we don't do mention a bench,
0:46.2	but we do Hanukkah.
0:48.0	And I will go over why what I think fits together
0:52.4	with this idea of gratitude and how in conflict the
0:56.8	Elf on the Shelf is with also trying to teach her kids kindness and gratitude.
1:02.1	Well how about that also Frankie has decided she
1:04.8	wants the off on the shelf to be out and about all year round so the fact that the
1:09.7	out of the shelf is now a toy and not this pillar of he's watching you reporting back to
1:17.6	Santa like that only lasted a year.
1:21.6	Also I think it's great that she had said that because that's basically what we're
1:25.9	doing to kids, what we do this whole thing of Elf on a Shelf and somebody's watching you
1:31.0	to see if you're good or bad,
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