How to teach your kids about boundaries
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
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🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk about the importance of teaching your child about boundaries. This is part 1 of a 2-part series on parenting, boundaries, and mental health.
From the moment children are born, they are tied to their environment and the people within their environment. They are born into a community which they both shape and are shaped by.
A child’s identity is closely tied to their community – their family, friends, and other acquaintances. Children develop a sense of who they are in relation to who they are with. This has both a huge potential for growth and connection and a huge potential for harm, which is why teaching your child how to have healthy relationships from a young age is so important for their mental and physical wellbeing.
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
2:00 How to help your child clean up their mental mess
8:20 Why it is important to teach your child about boundaries
11:20 Why we need to model boundaries for our children & teach them what boundaries look like in their own lives
14:20 Why it is important to create a safe space at home for our children
15:45 What boundaries are & why they are an important part of raising resilient children
18:16 Boundaries are for everyone, even young children!
22:40, 25:14 What it means to respect your child’s boundaries
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leiford. Welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, in today's podcast, I am so excited to talk more about how to help your children |
| 0:16.0 | manage their mental health. |
| 0:21.3 | As we know, there's a pandemic in mental health issues. We know that mental health challenges |
| 0:25.5 | are on the rise, there's an increase in suicides. It's really scary and it's frightening, |
| 0:31.3 | but it doesn't have to be. It's a real problem, but there is a way of managing it. |
| 0:36.4 | And as I mentioned in my previous podcast, and I encourage you to listen to all the |
| 0:39.9 | series that I'm doing on how to help children manage their mental health, as I mentioned |
| 0:45.1 | in my previous podcast, a large part of the reason why we have this increase is, sure, |
| 0:51.0 | huge technology and the changes that really shifted around 2010 in terms of social media |
| 0:55.6 | and so on. But the other big factor that's not spoken about enough and that I speak |
| 0:59.6 | about extensively is the fact that the last 30, 40 years, things, the way that we manage |
| 1:04.6 | our mind and the way that we help our children manage their mind has changed radically from |
| 1:10.6 | a contextualised managing of helping a child understand why they're going, what they're |
| 1:15.4 | going through, giving them the tools to talk about their story and what's going on and |
| 1:20.3 | helping them process it. That's been kind of pushed aside in favour of if your child has |
| 1:26.4 | any of these anxiety or depression or behavioral problems or learning problems that's like |
| 1:31.0 | off to the doctor, look at the symptoms, diagnose, as though there's a brain disease label |
| 1:37.8 | and very often standard of care is medicated. And this has made things worse. The research |
| 1:45.8 | is there, it's out, it just worked, things would have got better. It hasn't worked because |
| 1:51.4 | things have got worse. We can't reduce ourselves down to a brain because we are very complex |
| 1:57.5 | humans, our children are complex humans in a complex world and we cannot separate out |
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