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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Eliza Pressman and today I have with me Ellen

Galinsky who is a trailblazer superstar in the field of child development and education and just life in general. And she's written many books.

One of them is called Mind in the Making

and the reason I'm pointing that one out

is because in that book she goes through

and takes executive function-based skills

and really talks about them in terms of the real life skills that our kids need

beyond what you think of when you think of school and learning. The reading, writing, and arithmetic is not the only thing. So those

skills are coming up a lot more, especially during COVID and how to promote them inside the home.

And also we're talking about just generally

an opportunity mindset raising kids.

So let me tell you a little bit more about Ellen in the show notes because her bio is really long.

She's also the chief science officer at the Basos Family Foundation and founder and president of the Family Work Institute and the list is long.

This is a trusted resource and dear friend and she's also the grandmother of a seven-year-old who is giving her a little bit more insight into the experiences of kids really in real time,

along with her decades of experience and research.

And if you listen through this podcast,

not only are we going to talk about helping build that sort of autonomy and all the yummy stuff kids are capable of that we don't necessarily allow them to be capable of or believe them to be capable of or give them time to get capable of.

So strategies there and also we are talking about problem solving with our kids instead

of at our kids and how effective that can be and generally easing some of the

attention in the households. And we're also going to talk a little bit about

taking on challenges for ourselves as parents, for our kids, and that, you know,

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