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Welcome to Raising Good Humans.

I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman, and today we have my childhood friend and best-selling author Rachel Simmons and we're talking

about friendships particularly cultivating healthy friendships with girls and

don't forget to stick ground for the show notes. Okay, we're here with Rachel Simmons.

Hi. Hi, Lisa. So today we're talking girlfriends, bullyproofing, what if your kid is a bully you know it's so funny you say that I've been

kind of wondering how can you tell if your kid is a bully right can we talk about

that today yeah we can we can talk about it right now. No, because yeah, a lot of people are concerned about arming their kids with tools to recognize good friends and to cultivate healthy relationships.

But there's that other thing, which is the secret of,

oh my God, what if my kid is the kid that's being the jerk?

Right, and also, sorry I don't want to interrupt.

They're loud.

I was going to say girls are expert at, first of all, denying it when they get busted like championship I mean do you remember that actually you and I are probably really good at that ourselves

Let's remind let's remind your listeners that Eliza and I go way back to kindergarten.

Just in case listeners have forgotten.

So Eliza, you and I, being the socially intelligent creatures

that we were and are, I'm going to guess excelled at eluding teachers when they were trying to get us in trouble for something.

I don't think I ever got in trouble except for that one time in seventh grade.

Yeah, you guys, she's the kind of person who probably really did

never get in trouble whereas for me just to make sure that nobody feels

uncomfortable on this on listening. I always under growth in self-control got a minus sign and was constantly getting

kicked out of class for talking to my neighbor. So lest anyone feel judged by

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