THIS Is One Of The Best Skills You Can Give Your Children | Melinda Wenner Moyer
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Why is self-compassion so hard to practice, and even harder to teach our kids? In this episode, best-selling author Melinda Wenner Moyer shares the three key components of self-compassion and explains how nurturing this skill in children can help them grow resilient, confident, and kind—while positively shaping the world around them.
Melinda Wenner Moyer is an award-winning journalist whose work explores the intersection of science and everyday life. Her work deep dives into subjects that have both scientific and societal implications, addressing issues that are relevant to parents, families, and the general public.
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| 0:38.5 | and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent. Sometimes in these episodes, |
| 0:43.9 | I talk to best-selling authors and elite performers and other guests, but lately I've also |
| 0:48.5 | been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two boys. We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. |
| 0:57.5 | She and I talk about things that we're working on as parents, |
| 1:00.7 | things that we're working on as people, |
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