Podcast 486: 4 Tips to Raise Empathic Children

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Pre-order my new book HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD CLEAN UP THEIR MENTAL MESS here: ⁠https://www.mentallyresilientkids.com/⁠

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SHOW DESCRIPTION :In this podcast I talk about my upcoming book on children and mental health, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess, teaching your child empathy from youth, what we can do as parents and guardians to support our children, and more!

Read the blog here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drleaf.com/blogs/news/4-tips-to-raise-empathic-children

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

0:50 Why talking about children’s mental health is so important

2:20 My new book on children & mental health

7:30 How adverse childhood experiences can affect our mental health

8:00 The importance of teaching our children to manage their minds

13:35 Why it is important to teach our children empathy

15:00 How to help your child learn to be more empathetic

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace.
0:09.6	Well, I am really excited to start a whole series of podcasts on my new book that is coming
0:15.4	out on the 8th of August and it is how to help your children with their mental health.
0:20.5	So it's called, How to Help Your Child Clean Up the Mental Mace.
0:24.9	You're familiar with my book, How to Clean Up Your Mental Mace.
0:28.6	Now you can help your child clean up their mental mess.
0:35.2	And we know this couldn't come soon enough. As we know, mental health and children has just got
0:42.5	progressively worse and worse and worse over the years. In fact, it's just been getting progressively
0:47.4	worse for the last 40 years. And there's a multitude of reasons for that. But one of the main reasons
0:53.7	is that over the last 30 to 40 years, there's been a massive focus on what we call neuro reductionism.
1:01.2	In other words, symptoms and diagnosing and labeling and medicating a person's mind challenges
1:09.0	versus diving deep into why a person is showing up like they are. And so as we saw this shift away
1:16.6	from all of a human mind story narrative holistic approach to a more medical,
1:22.8	medicalizing of misery approach. So we have seen an increase in the problems in mental health.
1:29.5	And our children have grown up in this environment where they are pretty much having their
1:34.7	childhood pathologized and misery medicalized and any kind of emotion that isn't happy
1:42.1	as seen as something bad. So if you said, or depressed or anxious, there's something wrong with you.
1:48.4	That's the message that we're giving our children. This is not increasing their psychological
1:53.0	immunity. This is not increasing their ability to be human and experience the very normal,
2:00.0	unfortunately normal vagaries and challenges of life, which we'd love it just to be all
2:05.0	wonderful and perfect, but it's not. So if we are giving our children a message that when they
2:10.4	go through life and life is tough and they feel sad or they feel anxious or they feel worried or
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