Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World.

If you're a parent and you're like me, you think about your kids all the time.

And you wonder if you're parenting them right and appropriately considering their temperament,

their skills, their desires, their work ethic.

Because within one family, I've got two kids who are very opposite from each other.

And within one family, you can have such different kids that almost have to be

parented differently. And, you know, it's very interesting because like yoga pants versus joggers,

there is always a trend in parenting. And it can be very destructive if parents, especially moms, abandon their intuition and

gravitate toward a school of parenting that is in fashion for whatever reason.

And it always changes, you know, for a long time, Tiger moms were the thing.

If you weren't a Tiger Mom, if you weren't riding your kid's ass and making them take, you know, Mandarin Chinese and violin lessons while being on the swim team and, you know, creating a charity of their own and making sure that they did everything

perfectly than you and your child were both failures. And then there was the rise of gentle

parenting, which, you know, as a parent absolutely drives me crazy because these parents have

always been so annoying.

And I remember when my girls were little being at the park

and everything that happened to every interaction,

you know, there was always a kid who was like,

Madison, you know, let's think about our feelings first.

It's like, no, sometimes Madison needs to be told to shut the

fuck up. And yeah, it hurts. Gentle parents want to be their kids friends. And they do, I would

say arguably more damage than the tiger moms. Like the tiger moms can have unnecessary

expectations and can really damage their kids' self-esteem

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