This is Ted Health, a podcast from Ted, and I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.

From diapers and lunchboxes to the angst of adolescents, parenting is not a simple job.

For parents, there are these questions that follow you around all day.

Am I doing enough?

Am I doing too much?

How do I even know the difference when every corner

of the internet has an opinion? And most of them sound urgent. And kids carry stress they don't

have words for yet. Remember how overwhelming it could feel? Just learning how to exist? And trying

to get that right? From my patients to my friends and family, I hear concerns like these all the time.

So this month on the podcast, we're diving into the intersection of health and parenting,

so we can replace our parenting anxieties, or at least try to,

with ideas and actual science to help us understand how to support the

kids in our lives. We'll cover everything from neuroscience to nutrition and diving into the

fascinating science of growing up. Now, I know how exhausting it can be, getting so much conflicting

parenting advice from social media, from TV and movies and books,

from your parents and coworkers, and that neighbor down the street. It seems like everyone has an

opinion on how to do this very tough job, and they just can't wait to share it. So for today's

episode, I want to share two talks that offer a

path toward a calmer, more confident family life, a life that's not about second-guessing yourself

anytime you scroll on your Instagram feed. The talks come at modern parenting from two

different angles, but they land in a similar place.

In our first TED Talk, author Lenore Skenezi tells us a story from her own life that put her at the center of a public firestorm. Here's Lenore Skenezy.

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