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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Aliza Pressman and I'm so excited to welcome back

Dr. Joshua Sparrow, who is just such a brilliant force in the field of child psychiatry.

He's the executive director of the Braselton Touchpoint Center at the Division of Developmental

Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. He's also appointed in the Department of Psychiatry. He's

a co-principal investigator for the National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement

at the Office of Head Start. He's written so many books that I can't even list them. I'll put a

bunch of them in the show notes. I'm endlessly learning from him. I have the privilege of working with

him and you guys have the privilege of hearing from him about a topic that is so hard to talk about.

It's so hard to get experts to talk about because it's about punishment, consequences,

rebranding of timeouts, all the things that are kind of the end then what when it comes to your

child's behavior. And sometimes because we want to have a conversation that allows for space,

for parents to interpret discipline and learning in the context that makes sense for your family

and for your individual circumstances and your cultural experiences and support systems,

it's hard to be prescriptive and hold true to that. And at the same time, it's hard to give answers

to questions about like, okay, but then what? And what if my child does this and what if this

isn't working? And so I want to really have that deep dive conversation with Dr. Sparrow because he

is so compassionate and thoughtful and knowledgeable and also understands that there's a practical

component to parenting that is important for us to talk about. So enjoy this episode. I hope

and send in any questions, follow up questions into my DM on Instagram at Raising Good Humans podcast.

And of course, if you enjoy this episode, please don't hesitate to subscribe, rate,

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