[ 💭 ] Reducing Parental Stress
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
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What: We discuss the impact of stress on parenting and how societal expectations, technology usage, and self-comparison can exacerbate stress levels in parents.
Why: Understanding and managing stress is crucial for maintaining a healthy family environment, as parental stress can significantly influence children's mental and emotional well-being.
How:
🌱 Focus on creating a relaxed and caring home environment to reduce stress.
📵 Limit screen time to reclaim time for healthier activities like exercise and nature walks.
🧘♀️ Practice gratitude by appreciating current achievements rather than comparing to others.
📚 Engage in activities that promote relaxation and stress relief, such as reading and good conversations.
💪 Resist short-term temptations that can lead to long-term stress, like excessive reliance on technology for childcare.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence, the show about |
| 0:02.8 | chasing what truly matters. My name is Patrick Cummins. As always, I'm here |
| 0:05.7 | with Ben Bergeron. Thank you so much for joining us. How are you Ben? |
| 0:08.8 | You're good, Patrick. We're in the midst of fall. |
| 0:13.4 | We have our first 30 degree day and we don't have heat in the building. |
| 0:18.4 | Dude, is there the day that you turn on the heat in there? |
| 0:21.4 | Yeah, it's the day that it gets cold? |
| 0:24.0 | And yesterday was that day and yesterday it did not work. |
| 0:29.0 | Which strange actually we turned on a day earlier and it did work. We started making fires too at home which is awesome. |
| 0:36.0 | Oh yeah that is really fun I like that a lot. |
| 0:38.0 | So good. All right we're talking about parenting today the US Surgeon General's advisory on the mental health and well-being of parents. |
| 0:45.0 | This is a document that this is US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy co-authored. |
| 0:50.3 | He's the Surgeon General, so his name's on it, but I think a lot of people had a hand in writing it and it focuses on mental health and well-being of parents and caregivers in America. |
| 1:00.0 | It highlights the stressors parents face the impact of parental mental |
| 1:04.3 | mental health which is hard to say that's hard you did a job with that and provides |
| 1:08.0 | some recommendations for various sectors to support parents I want to talk about |
| 1:12.1 | this we're going to dive into a whole bunch of things that I was |
| 1:14.2 | thinking about in reading this or after reading this. I just want to give one quick quote as to why I think this is really |
| 1:21.4 | important and why it's interesting for us to talk about. |
| 1:24.0 | And this is from the advisory, it's a quote, the work of parenting is essential not only |
| 1:28.1 | for the health of children, but also for the health of society. |
| 1:30.9 | Additionally, we know the well-being of parents and |
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