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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and today I am joined by renowned

child psychiatrist Dr. Joshua Sparrow. He's the co-author of all of the Brazleton

touchpoint books and he is such a wonderful voice of science and reason.

So I wanted to have him on to have a conversation about how to kind of come to terms with

being sensitive in the way that we talk about caregiving and how important it is to have connection

and also how to set limits in the context of that sensitivity because sometimes I find

parents really struggle with being able to balance having appropriate expectations,

setting limits, having relational boundaries and feeling like they're still being sensitive to

their children. So we're diving into that discussion and I also just want to ask that you

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with any questions. Let's just say you're wanting to honor your boundaries, teach children about

boundaries, help them understand expectations and limits and I guess the difference between our

inner selves and our diets or our groups of people, our collective selves. How do we distinguish

between self and other? All of those kinds of things get mashed together as boundaries and then

on the other side of it I think when we talk about sensitive caregiving it gets confusing. How can

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