The difference between “safety net” parenting & “helicopter” parenting

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Pre-order my new book HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD CLEAN UP THEIR MENTAL MESS here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.mentallyresilientkids.com +Pre-order before August 8 to get access to bonus content! SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk about the difference between “safety net” parenting and “helicopter” parenting. To help our children develop their sense of autonomy and build identity, we as parents and caregivers need to know how to get involved in our children’s lives without smothering them. I know this can be hard at times, especially when we feel the need to constantly protect our children from all the hard things in life. However, if we try to do this, we can end up impacting their growth and mental resilience, which will affect their ability to learn how to manage and deal with the challenges of life. Read the blog here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drleaf.com/blogs/news/the-difference-between-safety-net-parenting-helicopter-parenting⁠ Sign up to Patreon to get access to full AD-FREE episodes, exclusive downloads, live Q&As, and more: https://www.patreon.com/drcarolineleaf OFFERS FROM OUR SPONSORS: -Manukora Honey: head to https://⁠MANUKORA.com/DRLEAF⁠ or use code DRLEAF, you’ll automatically get a free pack of honey sticks with your order - a $15 value. -ButcherBox: For a limited time, ButcherBox is giving us a special deal! Sign up today at ⁠https://butcherbox.com/DRLEAF⁠ and use code DRLEAF to get New York Strips for a year plus $20 off your first order. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: 2:20, 9:10 What helicopter parenting is & how it impacts children 14:35 How safety net parenting helps children build up mental resilience 19:00, 27:30 Using mind management & the Neurocycle to help your child clean up their mental mess ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: -Get my new book Cleaning up Your Mental Mess here: https://www.cleaningupyourmentalmess.com -Get a free Cleaning up Your Mental Mess workbook when you subscribe to my weekly email at drleaf.com! - Visit my website at https://drleaf.com for more free resources -Instagram: @drcarolineleaf: https://www.instagram.com/drcarolineleaf/- -Facebook: Dr. Caroline Leaf: https://www.facebook.com/drleaf -Twitter: @drcarolineleaf: https://twitter.com/DrCarolineLeaf -Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/drcarolineleaf *DISCLAIMER: This podcast and blog are for educational purposes only and are not intended as medical advice. We always encourage each person to make the decision that seems best for their situation with the guidance of a medical professional.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace.
0:10.7	In today's podcast, I'm going to be talking about something from my new book, How to
0:14.7	Help Your Child Clean Up their Mental Mace, a guide to building resilience and managing
0:20.0	mental health.
0:24.9	I wrote this for you, this is something I wish I had when I was a young parent.
0:30.1	I wrote this to help you, help your child manage their mental health.
0:33.8	As we know, these such a pandemic crisis with mental health with our children in this current
0:39.3	time or this current age, and I believe a huge part of it, if you look at the research,
0:44.4	is because of how we have been managing mental health.
0:47.6	We've mismanaged mental health and we've created a 40-year problem which is very evident
0:53.1	in our children now.
0:54.1	40 years ago, we started looking at humans in a very neuro-reductionistic brain-focused
0:59.9	way, instead of looking at a person's story and bringing the whole mind component in.
1:04.7	And that's led to a lot of problems that we see the evidence today.
1:07.7	That hasn't worked, the evidence is that it's haven't worked, if it did work, then we
1:12.0	wouldn't have so many issues today.
1:14.2	So around this, here I have providing you with a set of tools in this book to help you
1:20.8	help your child manage their mental health.
1:22.9	I teach about the neuropsychil, those of you that have been following me for a while,
1:26.3	you know a lot about the neuropsychil at this point, the system for mind-directed neuroplasticity.
1:31.7	Well you can teach this to children as young as two and three years of age.
1:35.1	So that's what I've done in this book and today I'm specifically going to talk about
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