How to Teach Our Children Emotional Resilience with Dr. Becky Kennedy

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sharon talks with Dr. Becky Kennedy, a clinical psychologist who was recently named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. Dr. Becky and Sharon have a conversation about communicating the tough topics with our kids; how and when to share current event news so they feel safe. Dr. Becky argues that it’s not always the information that feels scary and off-putting, but the act of having to process it alone. As parents, it's our responsibility to support our children through our loving, supportive presence and guided conversations. Children need to learn distress tolerance in order to accomplish big, meaningful things, and we help by teaching them AVP: acknowledge, validate, and permit. Acknowledge that something is happening inside of you, tell your feelings why they make sense, and give your body permission to feel what it’s feeling.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. I have a fantastic show for you today. I am chatting with Dr.
0:07.7	Becky Kennedy. She runs a platform and has a podcast called Good Inside and she is one of the most trusted experts out there when it comes to
0:18.8	children's psychology and boy does she have a lot of wisdom to share. So let's dive into this episode.
0:28.2	I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:35.0	Oh my goodness, thank you so much for joining me today, Becky.
0:38.0	I'm so happy to have you here.
0:39.5	I am so happy to be here.
0:41.2	Truly, I was so excited to have this on my calendar today.
0:45.1	Yay well I wanted to have you on because I know a lot of people in my community are
0:50.2	parents or they are friends with people who have kids or they have you know children in their lives that they love and I often field questions about how to handle some tough topics related to parenting and I feel very very ill-equipped to answer those.
1:07.0	I am not a parenting expert.
1:09.4	Maybe you could make us feel better about this.
1:11.2	I feel like most parents are just kind of winging it.
1:14.0	I mean, yeah, I think especially because we have kids who are so different from us.
1:19.0	We're raising them in a time that's obviously different from when we were raised and each kid needs something so different.
1:27.0	So no matter what knowledge we have, we're always pivoting and iterating and learning so much along the way.
1:33.6	So yeah, we're all doing our best.
1:35.4	That's it.
1:36.4	And people who are not familiar with you, what do you do?
1:39.8	Yeah.
1:40.8	I am Dr. Becky Kennedy.
1:41.9	I am a clinical psychologist. I specialize in parenting, anxiety, and
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