Going Deep with Aliza Pressman on Sane Parenting

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Living in an optimization culture is making parenting much more complicated than it need be. Or so says Dr. Aliza Pressman, author of The Five Principles of Parenting and the host of Raising Good Humans, who spends a lot of time with the latest research and a lot of time with parents in clinic. Today’s conversation is about exactly what does and does not protect us from the worst health outcomes and is to be shared with anyone who is looking for a parenting north star. (Previously aired) Our takeaways were juicy on this one… if you’d like to receive the weekly list in your inbox subscribe to our Weekly Takeaways email at www.kellycorrigan.com/takeaways. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	Relationship is ancient wisdom and science, decades of science.
0:32.6	There's nothing transformative or revolutionary about any of this.
0:37.0	It's more just quieting the noise so we can
0:39.4	hear it.
0:40.9	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan wonders.
0:42.8	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about the ways we tend to overdo it as parents
0:49.1	and why so many of us can rattle off the benefits of low pressure developmental environments and so few of us
0:55.5	can effectively or consistently create them. Today I am talking with Dr. Alisa Pressman. We have a
1:03.9	mutual friend who brought us together and boy, did it go well. Elisa has written a new book,
1:10.2	The Five Principles of Parenting, which is
1:13.0	addressing this age of high-pressure parenting in which we find ourselves. And in a time when many
1:18.8	of us feel like you have to get everything just right, as if there is one right way to raise good
1:25.3	humans. Elisa has a podcast that is beloved by many.
1:29.4	It's called Raising Good Humans.
1:31.2	She is also the co-founding director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center,
1:35.7	as well as an assistant clinical professor for the Department of Pediatrics at the Icon School
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