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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and today's episode is with author

Melinda Winner-Moyer, who wrote this really great new book, How to Raise Kids, who aren't assholes.

It's her first book, but Melinda is a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine

and a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national

magazines and newspapers. She's a faculty member in the Science, Health, and Environmental

Reporting Program at NYU's Journalism Institute, and she wrote this really great book,

Pulling Together, The Research from the Developmental Sciences, and mapping them out to think about

how to promote these teachable character strengths and traits that help support kids' growth

and development in the ways that we're all hoping to support our kids. And in this episode,

we're talking about the science-based strategies for raising kind, generous, helpful, motivated,

resilient kids. We're talking a little bit about sibling research, about TV and screen time.

We're talking about lying and truth-telling, and just having difficult conversations in general.

If you enjoy this episode, please don't hesitate to subscribe, rate, and if you have time,

write a little review. You can DM me on at Raising Did Humans Podcast for questions that I can share

on Instagram or on my bonus episodes the first Monday of every month. I would love to walk

through the traits that you talked about that help children thrive that are teachable,

and just give a nugget that you thought was kind of unexpected. So we can start with kindness and

generosity, and I can go from there. I'm pretty sure you already have this down.

Yeah, so I mean, I started the book with kindness and generosity and helpfulness, because I felt like

those were kind of the like really key traits that to me was sort of the opposite of assollary.

Like that's how I kind of conceived these. Like what are the traits that are sort of the opposite

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