Episode 488: How letter writing can make your child more mentally resilient

The Dr. Leaf Show

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Pre-order my new book HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD CLEAN UP THEIR MENTAL MESS here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.mentallyresilientkids.com/⁠ +Pre-order before August 8 to get access to bonus content! SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk about something fun and mentally challenging you can do with your children this summer: letter writing! This is part of my summer series on brain-building activities you can do with your children to help them build up their mental resilience and manage their mental health while having fun. Read the blog here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drleaf.com/blogs/news/how-letter-writing-can-make-your-child-more-mentally-resilient Sign up to Patreon to get access to full AD-FREE episodes, exclusive downloads, live Q&As, and more: https://www.patreon.com/drcarolineleaf OFFERS FROM OUR SPONSORS: ZocDoc: Book an appointment with a few taps in their app and start feeling better faster with Zocdoc. Go to Zocdoc.com/LEAF and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then find and book a top-rated doctor today. Many are available within 24 hours. AquaTru: AquaTru comes with a 30-day Money-Back Guarantee and even makes a great gift. And, for a limited time, my listeners receive 20% OFF any AquaTru purifier! Just go to AquaTru.com and enter code “DRLEAF” at checkout. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: 0:43 Why we should practice brain-building with our children 1:40, 8:00 Letter-writing versus texting & emailing 3:20 What brain-building is & why it is important 4:30, 8:25, 13:00, 15:20 Why letter-writing is so great for our brain health 11:10 Good stress vs. healthy stress 16:00, 22:55 Letter-writing activities you can do with children ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: -Get my new book Cleaning up Your Mental Mess here: https://www.cleaningupyourmentalmess.com -Get a free Cleaning up Your Mental Mess workbook when you subscribe to my weekly email at drleaf.com! - Visit my website at https://drleaf.com for more free resources -Instagram: @drcarolineleaf: https://www.instagram.com/drcarolineleaf/- -Facebook: Dr. Caroline Leaf: https://www.facebook.com/drleaf -Twitter: @drcarolineleaf: https://twitter.com/DrCarolineLeaf -Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/drcarolineleaf *DISCLAIMER: This podcast and blog are for educational purposes only and are not intended as medical advice. We always encourage each person to make the decision that seems best for their situation with the guidance of a medical professional. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace.
0:09.7	In today's podcast, I'm excited to start a first of a series of three of ideas that you
0:15.3	can do over the summer that are going to build your child's brain, improve their mental
0:19.7	health and unmask the natural resilience to help them through the anticipated and inevitable
0:26.6	challenges that are that when we go back to school and all the things that happen once
0:30.5	you back at school and mixing with other people.
0:33.6	Now, not only will this help with preparing your child to go back to school, but there
0:40.9	are also excellent life skills and brain health activities that you're going to be building
0:46.2	into your child.
0:47.6	And as I said, you can do them as well.
0:49.6	Great for siblings to do together, great for family building activities, great for to
0:53.8	do with their friends and so on.
0:55.6	So the first one is a letter writing activity.
0:59.3	So this is the art of the old school letter writing letters.
1:04.7	So these are really fantastic for building the brain and encouraging a child to understand
1:11.7	the importance of deep meaningful communication, which is a massive part of brain building
1:15.8	and unmasking of resilience.
1:17.6	So everything about it, it's so much easier just to knock out a text message or to send
1:24.0	an email.
1:25.4	And yes, there's a lot of benefits of being able to communicate quickly and so on with people
1:30.3	with family, with friends and so on.
1:32.6	But there's also some drawbacks.
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