Podcast 451: Debunking the Myth of the Perfect Parent

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I speak with teacher, parent, and an emotional development expert Alyssa Blask Campbell, who runs Seed and Sew, an organization that is passionate about helping early childhood educators, parents and children create an emotionally intelligent world together. Alyssa and I talk about how parenting has moved from being an instinctive process to one that is guided by experts, how the wellbeing of the parent impacts the wellbeing of the child, how to recognize and develop resilience in children, how to avoid pathologizing childhood, and so much more!

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

2:34 Why Alyssa is passionate about helping parents & children

4:02 How to raise emotionally intelligent children

7:10 It is never too late to change how you parent!

11:20 The importance of teaching children empathy

15:18 Fragility versus resilience in kids

20:40 The myth of the perfect parent

24:45 How to avoid pathologizing childhood

32:05 The power of collaborative parenting

35:00 Why you need to practice self-care as a parent

42:45 How to meet a child where they are & help them grow

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0:00.0	Hi, I am Dr Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up, The Mensal Messe.
0:10.1	Well in today's podcast, I talk to Alyssa Blast Campbell who has a master's degree in early
0:15.4	childhood education about how parenting has moved from being an instinctive process to
0:21.2	one of them needed to be guided by experts.
0:24.7	And also how the well-being of the parent directly impacts the well-being of the child and how
0:28.5	to manage this as parents.
0:30.5	We also talk about how to recognise and develop the deep-seated insightfulness and resiliency
0:35.6	in children through a collaborative relationship and how not to pathologise childhood.
0:41.4	Join me as we dive into the podcast.
0:46.9	Alyssa, welcome to my podcast.
0:48.7	I am really very thrilled to talk about this extremely important topic and you know, raising
0:54.3	kids in today's compete and compete society, I think parents are getting hammered from every
0:58.9	direction.
0:59.9	I mean, you just have to jump on social media and within five seconds you feel guilty about
1:04.4	your parenting, everything's wrong that you're doing and you're not doing enough.
1:07.8	Everyone's looking at your child's behaviour and they may use the parents.
1:10.6	I think it's gone from, parenting's very, very, very, very challenging now.
1:16.6	Almost to the point where parents feel that they need an expert to help them just be doing
1:22.0	what they, a lot of them, you know, would be instinctively know how to do.
1:25.1	So I'm very, very excited to have you on the podcast to talk about how we can alleviate
1:29.4	some of these stresses for parents and guide them in a great way.
1:33.2	So welcome.
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