Lighthouse Parenting (with Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg)

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Wondering about how to parent in a way that increases trust, care, and communication while reducing hovering, distance, and conflict? Christine talks with Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg about lighthouse parenting. They discuss the importance of the long view in parenting, hovering vs. preparation, how to handle stumbles, and more. For links and resources, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.0	We're having a baby.
0:06.0	We're having a baby.
0:07.0	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.0	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.0	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.0	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.0	I think of it like a Tamagotchi.
0:17.0	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby.
0:21.6	Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.2	18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:35.3	Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:42.3	Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:56.9	Friends, I think you're really going to enjoy today's conversation with Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg.
1:03.0	I'm kind of thinking that it's a little bit like an audio balm.
1:08.0	Ken is an adolescent medicine specialist, and he's the co-founder and director of the Center for
1:13.2	Parent and Teen Communication. And his new book is called Lighthouse Parenting, Raising Your Child
1:19.1	With Loving Guidance for a Lifelong Bond. I have known Ken for some time. I first interviewed
1:24.7	him for this show in 2018, seven years ago, which would have made Laurel 13 and
1:30.8	Violet 6. So it's kind of amazing to now be interviewing him when Violet is 13 and Laurel is now 20.
1:39.2	For that earlier conversation, which is 100% Evergreen, I'll link it up in the show notes, but it's called
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