Jessica Lahey on Self-Efficacy and Genetic Predisposition to Addiction
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks to Jessica Lahey about her new book The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence, protecting your kids against addiction and finding the right information to guide them to success, teaching your kids about self-efficacy, and more.
Jessica Lahey is the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. She has written for The New York Times and The Atlantic and has taught middle and high school for over a decade.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast. During the week, we bring you a daily meditation of the best parenting wisdom you can find drawing on history and philosophy and psychology and literature to inspire you to be a little bit better at the most important job you have. |
| 0:22.5 | And then on the weekends, I have sort of a wrap-up conversation with my friend, fellow dad, |
| 0:27.3 | and writing partner, Niels Parker. |
| 0:29.0 | We just explore what's going on in our lives, what we're struggling with as parents, |
| 0:32.8 | what we're doing well, what we want to do better, and what we've learned along the way, |
| 0:36.9 | and what we've learned in the way, and what we've learned in |
| 0:37.8 | the last week. So let's go. |
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