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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman. I am so thrilled to have back Dr.

Stephanie Carlson, who is one of the most renowned professors of developmental psychology. She's

at the University of Minnesota. She has changed our understanding of how children develop their

executive function skills. And one of the mechanisms we're going to be talking about today is

autonomy and autonomy support of parenting. So this episode is targeting younger children. Those

of you who have younger children will really benefit. But it matters for everybody because these

kinds of conversations continue to reflect parenting with intention that support your children's

growing autonomy, which is important throughout their childhood. If you enjoy this episode,

please don't hesitate. In fact, I urge you to write a review, particularly on Apple podcasts,

because that really helps highlight the podcast. And don't forget for more articles and interactive

conversations. Sign up for Dr. Alisa. Bulletin.com. So will you define autonomy and autonomy

supportive parenting for us? Sure. So autonomy literally in Latin, it means self rule. So it's

governing oneself and having sort of being the ruler of oneself, the boss of oneself. And autonomy

is something that all individuals value to one degree or another and all individuals need to thrive

to some degree or another. Now there are cultural differences in this that we can talk about,

but autonomy just literally means self rule. So it's having a sense of self, sense of agency,

and kind of being your own boss. And autonomy supportive parenting is when parents

rear children in a way that allows them to express their autonomy. So to have some say in

their own activities, in their own bedtimes, when they're older, things like that. So parenting

that allows children to have some options and to rule themselves in addition to all of the

external ruling that happens from families necessarily. So when parents are thinking about this,

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