Untangling Overparenting (with Jessica Lahey)

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Figuring out how to step back in a culture of involvement is hard but doable. Christine chats with educator and author Jessica Lahey about letting go of control, how ignoring the grade portal actually encourages learning, how lovingly stepping back doesn’t have to feel like walking away, and more. RELATED EPISODES (for additional resource links, visit the show notes) Raising Teenagers (with Mary Dell Harrington) Simple + Compassionate Parenting Tactics (with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson) Supporting Kids Through Continued Uncertainty & Stress (with Dr. Lisa Damour) Raising Differently Wired Kids (with Debbie Reber) How To Improve Communication with Kids (with Ned Johnson) Raising Functional + Kind Kids (with Catherine Newman) How To Raise Kids To Be Thrivers (with Dr. Michele Borba) The Addiction Inoculation (with Jessica Lahey) Modeling Imperfection Raising Middle Schoolers (with Phyllis Fagell, LCPC) Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:12.5	Through episodes with me, your host, Christine Coe, and a range of super smart, compassionate, and thoughtful guests,
0:18.8	you will come away with big picture insights and practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and thoughtful guests, you will come away with big picture insights and
0:21.6	practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by
0:26.2	perfection. I have always believed that small moments and actions matter tremendously. My goal is
0:32.7	to help you find agency and space in your life through doable baby steps that will leave you
0:37.2	feeling accomplished
0:38.1	instead of overwhelmed.
0:41.0	Hello, friends.
0:42.3	I am so excited to bring you this conversation with Jessica Leahy.
0:46.8	She is an incredible person, a talented writer, speaker, bestselling author, and she has a book called The Gift of Failure,
0:56.6	How the Best Parents Learned to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, and also the book,
1:02.2	The Addiction Inoculation, Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence.
1:07.5	Both books are amazing, and I will link them up in the show notes because they should definitely
1:12.4	be part of your parenting arsenal. I love Jess for so many reasons and this conversation
1:18.2	is so powerful to me because it really at the heart is all about embracing kids for who they
1:24.5	are, not for what we want them to be.
1:29.6	This is an important message always,
1:33.9	but I feel like it's a good one that we need to keep reinforcing,
1:37.4	given the increasing pressures on kids these days.
1:41.3	Jess and I talk a lot about stepping back and letting go,
1:48.6	which can feel scary and uncertain, but it actually is a way to reduce pressure on you and your kids. So it's really, really important framing to have. Now, I also wanted to
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