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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Erin Clabough: Developing Empathy, Creativity, and Self-Control in Children

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Erin Clabough is an assistant professor of biology and neuroscience at Hampden-Sydney College. With Sounds True, she has published Second Nature: How Parents Can Use Neuroscience to Help Kids Develop Empathy, Creativity, and Self-Control. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Erin about the experience of raising four children while also pursuing her PhD, and how this informed the lessons in Second Nature. Erin describes specific methods she's used to challenge and discipline her children in ways that encourage the development of positive lifelong traits, as well as how these methods can be applied in any family. Erin and Tami discuss the tricky modern issue of screen time and the different ways to approach rules with differently aged children. Finally, they talk about the concept of emotional "scaffolding" and what it takes to really model positive behaviors in your daily life. (56 minutes) Tami's Takeaway: Have you ever noticed that sometimes when someone says, "I'm sorry" for some ignorant or destructive action, their apology can feel insufficient or incomplete? A mother of four and a neuroscience educator, Erin Clabough says to her children, "I don't want your 'sorry.' I want you not to do it again." Erin teaches her children what she calls "the OUT method." O stands for "owning the action you took." U stands for "understanding how that action affected other people." And T stands for "telling the person you hurt how you will do it differently next time." What a powerful way to build empathy in children and for all of us to make amends when we need to!

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This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.

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At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio

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learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses and events.

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At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,

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offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.

0:24.0

Sounds True.com. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Dr. Aaron Claibou.

0:42.2

Aaron Claibou is a mother of four who teaches biology and

0:47.3

neuroscience at Hampton Sydney College. Her research focuses on understanding neurodevelopment across the lifespan by examining

0:57.5

changes in neuronal anatomy and physiology and by exploring new ways to cultivate empathy and creativity in children.

1:07.0

Aaron writes for the popular media and her scientific research has resulted in many peer review journal articles.

1:15.8

Aaron Clabo is the author of a new book with Sounds True called Second Nature,

1:21.6

How Parents Can Use Neuroscience to Help Kids second nature how parents can use neuroscience to help kids develop empathy, creativity, and

1:28.0

self-control. It's a true guidebook, a neuroscientically informed guidebook for parenting.

1:36.7

I know you'll enjoy it.

1:38.4

Here's my conversation with Aaron Clabo. Aaron, I think of you as such an all-accomplishing person. You're the mother of four children and you have a PhD in

1:56.9

neuroscience. So to begin with, tell me a little bit about your four kids, how old they are,

2:03.5

introduce them to me and to our listeners.

2:05.8

Sure, I have two boys and two girls,

2:08.9

which was no fault of mine.

2:11.9

And then there are eight and 10 and 12 and 14 right now.

2:17.0

And you got your PhD in neuroscience and at a certain point the light went on for you that what you were learning, the science of the brain, could be applied to parenting.

2:30.0

How did that connection emerge for you?

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