Raising an Emotionally Balanced Child with Dr. G | #254

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Raising kids is no easy feat, but what if there was a better way that set up both you and your child for success? This week Dr. G dives into common parenting styles, how childhood trauma plays a role in parenting, and which, if any theory you should be paying attention to raise an emotionally balanced child. Parenting theories discussed in this episode: Attachment Theory: Focuses on infant-caregiver bonding shaping development Behaviorism: Uses rewards and consequences to encourage/discourage behaviors Cognitive Development Theory: Kids construct mental models of the world through experiences. Social Learning Theory: Kids observe and imitate attitudes and behaviors Ecological Systems Theory: Child development is influenced by broader social and environmental factors. Authoritative Parenting: High responsiveness with clear boundaries and expectations from parents. Montessori Method: Child-led learning by encouraging independence and respect for a child's natural psychological development. Gentle Parenting: Parents lead with empathy, respect, understanding, and boundary setting. As Dr. G describes, daily accumulated stressors like lack of emotional attunement, warmth and autonomy-support early on can have significant impacts. However, by using a more Supportive Parenting style, you will see a numerous benefits in your children and even yourself including: Increased nervous system resilience in children Larger hippocampus: Improves memory and learning Smaller amygdala: Reduces anxiety and fear conditioning Higher vagal tone: Ability to recover from stressors More balanced limbic system: Healthy emotional regulation Breaking of generational trauma patterns Opportunities to heal our own nervous systems Ability to parent from an authentic, compassionate heart-space Heightened self-awareness around our ingrained habits Tune into this episode to upgrade your parenting approach and family dynamic. Walk away with insights on how gentle parenting benefits kids in the short and long-term when it comes to behavior, mental health, relationships and beyond. It's time to challenge assumptions and lead with an open heart. Reference: Noll LK, Clark CAC, Skowron EA. Multigenerational links between mothers’ experiences of autonomy in childhood and preschoolers’ respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Variations by maltreatment status. Dev Psychopathol. 2015;27(4pt2):1443-1460. === LMNT Visit DrinkLMNT.com/DRG to claim your free sample pack for Heal Thy Self listeners only. Seed Go to seed.com/DRG and use code 25DRG for 25% off your first month’s supply of Seed’s DS-01® Daily Synbiotic. === Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.gonzalez instagram.com/doctor.gonzalez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, everyone. Welcome to the newest episode of Heel Thyself. This week is going to be a really good week of episodes.
0:05.6	Now, I have a knowledge bomb segment for you that you're going to listen to today that is going to be incredible.
0:10.6	And I'm going to tell you why because a lot of us are confused
0:13.3	about how to raise children and listen I ain't got children but I'm going to give
0:16.1	you the most relevant research on raising a healthy emotionally balanced
0:20.9	regulated child there is ways to do it I'm going to give you all of the down emotionally balanced
0:23.8	regulated child.
0:21.8	There is ways to do it.
0:23.3	I'm going to give you all of the downloaded codes for you,
0:26.6	especially if you're going into parenthood or if you're already a parent.
0:29.2	And on Thursday, we are dropping a fantastic guest segment with Deborah Margopoulos. She is the
0:35.0	hormone queen. If you have issues with your hormones at any time in your life, you
0:40.6	have to listen to this episode if you have trouble sleeping if you have trouble losing weight if you have trouble with your energy if you have brain fog if you have trouble having kids
0:48.0	Everything under the sun she's going to give you the thing that we are completely missing out in medicine.
0:53.8	Even in naturopathic and functional medicine, we are missing out on this major, major
0:58.2	thing to be looking at and man, I can't wait for you to listen.
1:02.3	That's in a few days, tune for today let's get to this knowledge bomb
1:05.7	We are going to be talking about raising children. Let's do this
1:18.0	Okay if you're a parent, you know there's no guidebook, you're in it, right? You're learning on the fly and you raise kids and you inevitably make mistakes and you learn from them.
1:24.7	And that's to be expected, right?
1:26.1	There's no such thing as perfect parents.
1:29.6	And yeah, we know that overall, But what if we were empowered with more information, right?
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