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Raising Good Humans

S2 Ep 63: Raising Kids Who Have A Sense of Autonomy with Stephanie M. Carlson

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Join me in conversation with one of the leading psychologists on executive function, Stephanie Carlson, to learn about raising self-reliant kids that still feel supported by their parents.

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a deer media production.

0:07.3

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

0:14.0

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

0:20.3

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

0:26.8

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

0:33.5

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

0:42.1

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

0:48.6

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

0:56.4

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

1:01.4

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

1:10.0

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

1:17.6

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

1:26.4

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

1:35.3

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

1:42.8

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

1:50.3

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

1:54.4

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

2:00.2

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

2:08.5

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

2:16.9

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

2:23.2

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

2:29.2

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

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