How to Tackle Bad Behaviour (with Dr Becky Kennedy)
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Clinical psychologist Dr Becky Kennedy thinks every child is “good inside” even when they’re behaving badly. So to tackle tantrums or rule-breaking, she argues that parents must set clear boundaries for acceptable behaviour, but also seek to understand why their children are misbehaving.
If a child is acting "badly" because they are disappointed, sad, frustrated, jealous, or uncomfortable, then a parent's job is to help their kid deal with those feelings and build up more resilience to common emotions that they'll experience throughout life.
Hear more of Dr Becky's parenting tips on her podcast Good Inside With Dr Becky
This series on parenting coincides with Dr Laurie's new free online class, The Science of Wellbeing for Parents which is available now at Coursera.org. You can sign up at drlauriesantos.com/parents.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | If you have kids, you know that every day can bring a fresh hell. |
| 0:09.2 | In other words, it's always something. |
| 0:11.4 | Sometimes a couple of things at the same time. |
| 0:13.2 | From time management to mess management to whether this is all supposed to be a little more fun, |
| 0:19.0 | the What Fresh Hell podcast is here to solve the issues that moms are facing every week. |
| 0:24.4 | In every episode of What Fresh Hell, we take a parenting, a relationship issue, and figure it out through research, expert takes, and our own experiences, good and bad. |
| 0:33.2 | So listen to What Fresh Hell, because when it comes to Motherhood, laughter really is the best medicine. |
| 0:38.5 | Listen to What Fresh Hell wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:45.7 | Pushkin. |
| 0:53.5 | When it comes to raising kids, most of us are familiar with the traditional reward and punishment model. |
| 0:59.5 | Your toddler throws a tantrum, time out. |
| 1:02.0 | Your teenager breaks curfew. They're grounded. |
| 1:04.8 | But is this really the best way to raise happy, healthy adults? |
| 1:08.7 | On today's episode of our special series on happier parenting, |
| 1:11.9 | we'll meet an expert who's convinced we can do better. I'm Dr. Becky Kennedy. I'm a clinical |
| 1:16.7 | psychologist. I am a mom of three, and I am the founder of Good Inside. Good Inside is a company |
| 1:23.8 | that offers simple, actionable strategies for parents struggling with their kids |
| 1:27.9 | challenging behavior. It's also the title of Dr. Becky's best-selling book and the name of her |
| 1:33.2 | popular parenting podcast. Dr. Becky's work is rooted in the belief that every child is, quote, |
| 1:38.8 | good inside, even when they're acting out. And while our instinct might be to lecture, yell, |
| 1:43.8 | or take away privileges when our child acts out, Dr while our instinct might be to lecture, yell, or take away |
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