The science behind how parents affect child development | Yuko Munakata

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Parents, take a deep breath: how your kids turn out isn't fully on you. Of course, parenting plays an important role in shaping who children become, but psychologist Yuko Munakata offers an alternative, research-backed reality that highlights how it's just one of many factors that influence the chaotic complexity of childhood development. A rethink for anyone wondering what made them who they are today and what it means to be a good parent.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:13.7	There is no shortage of parenting advice in the world, so you probably don't need it
0:18.0	from a Ted Talk.
0:19.0	Today, we have anti-parenting advice.
0:21.5	A 2019 archive talk from developmental psychologist Yuko Murukata that doesn't tell us how to
0:27.6	parent, but instead lets us off the hook for shaping who our kids become.
0:31.9	She'll explain after the break.
0:35.9	Five years ago, when Tasha Adams was leaving her husband, the founder of Oathkeeper, Stuart
0:40.5	Rhodes, she kept it a secret.
0:42.8	The one person she told outside her family, the ex-wife of Firebrand Alex Jones.
0:48.6	I'm Anna Sale, and on the Death Sex and Money podcast, here are these two women in conversation
0:53.7	for the first time.
0:55.4	Tasha's plans for watching Stuart Rhodes sentencing this month for his role in January 6th.
1:01.0	That's on Death Sex and Money wherever you get podcasts.
1:05.6	A few years ago, a student came up to me after the second day of my class on parenting and
1:10.9	child development.
1:12.9	She hesitated for a second, and then she confessed.
1:16.4	I'm really interested in this material, but I was hoping your class would help me to become
1:21.2	a better parent if I have kids someday.
1:24.6	She was disappointed.
1:27.1	We were going to talk about how parents do not have control in shaping who their children
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