SFP 152: The Fear of Underparenting

Simple Families

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Kids & Family, Parenting, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Overparenting is a phenomenon that happens for many parents who have the best of intentions. We want the best for our children and as a result, we want to do everything and be everything for them. This happens because we are fearful of not doing enough. We fear underparenting. This often spills over into discipline. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to dole out rewards and consequences for all the minor and major behavior infractions as children grow. But in today’s episode, I am explaining why we don’t need to fear underparenting. And in fact, often less is more. The post SFP 152: The Fear of Underparenting appeared first on Simple Families.

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0:00.0	Hi there, welcome to episode 152 and today we're talking about the fear of under parenting.
0:05.8	You are listening to the Simple Families Podcast, a Q&A-style show that brings you solutions for living well with family.
0:15.0	Here's your host, Dene Barajona.
0:20.0	Hi there, it's Deney, thanks for tuning in.
0:22.0	This is episode 150, and today we're talking about the fear of under parenting on the podcast and on the blog and in my book I talk a lot about our tendency to over-parent, to want to do everything and want to be everywhere.
0:35.8	But I also want to go into a little bit more detail and explore this idea of the fact that when we're over parenting we're often running away from something
0:46.0	and that is the fear of under parenting or the fear of not doing enough and that fear really
0:51.2	drives us to do more.
0:53.0	And not only do we end up overwhelmed,
0:55.0	but it doesn't actually serve our kids well at all.
0:58.0	So I believe this is a multifaceted issue
1:02.0	that we can approach from many different directions and today I just
1:05.3	want to tackle one component of it. That is the fear of under parenting as it pertains to
1:11.2	disciplining our kids. I hear from parents all the time that they
1:15.8	don't want to let their kids get away with things. They want to make sure that
1:20.0	they're disciplining them. And when I hear that that often tells me that they want to make sure that they're giving the
1:26.6	appropriate amount of consequences to their children, when their children
1:30.8	quote-unquote misbehave.
1:33.3	Before we get into today's episode,
1:35.0	here's a quick word from our sponsor.
1:37.1	The sponsor for today is Prepish.
1:38.9	And of course, if you've been listening to the podcast
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