The #1 Parenting Strategy with Dr. Becky Kennedy

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr. Becky Kennedy shares how we can connect better with our kids. Discover: 1. How to embody your authority while also validating your kid’s experience. 2. The #1 strategy for building resilience. 3. Why consequences and punishments backfire and don’t work. 4. How to sit with your child on the “benches” of their emotions. 5. One thing you can say to your kids to build connection in any circumstance. About Dr. Becky: Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. She’s rethinking the way we raise our children – empowering parents to feel sturdier and more equipped to manage the challenges of parenting. Dr. Becky is founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place; author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, which is out this month. And her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to September, Pod Squad, the month where so much happens for many of us, for me as a former teacher, I always feel like September is the actual start of the new year.
0:12.0	So for those returning to the back to school swing,
0:15.3	we thought we'd share some wisdom from our friend,
0:17.7	Dr. Becky Kennedy, really all of us
0:20.5	could probably use this wisdom right now. If you've ever been a child, are raising a child,
0:26.3	or are looking for ways to repair your connection with an adult child or your own parent or
0:31.6	your inner child, this episode is a must listen. In this one
0:36.8	Dr. Becky shares her number one strategy for building resilience which is not what you think it's going to be.
0:44.1	Plus, an unforgettable metaphor for how to sit with your child on the benches of their emotions,
0:51.8	which turns out is all we have to do.
0:55.2	I've used these strategies and thought about that metaphor at least a hundred times since,
0:59.5	so I hope you love it as much as I did.
1:02.1	Enjoy and good luck out there. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. I am so excited because we have Dr. Becky back here who is solving our lives. And we're
1:28.6	going to answer some of the Pod Squaders questions today about parenting kids but also about just
1:33.8	re-parenting ourselves and how to human differently and with a little less shame and
1:38.7	more compassion and joy.
1:43.0	Sister, you were talking about something pretty cool that you wanted to ask Dr. Becky about to start us off with.
1:49.0	Yes, I am fascinated Dr. Becky by your complete reframe on consequences and punishment and the way that
2:00.7	you talk about actions being moments and consequences
2:06.8	versus skills. Can you just walk us through that because it was it was mind-bending to me?
2:12.1	Yeah. So... it was mind bending to me.
2:12.6	Yeah, so let's take a situation like,
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