What I learned about parenting from watching Ted Lasso

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk about embracing “messy” parenting. This is part 2 of my series on parenting. You can listen to part 1 here. As I mentioned in part 1, it’s ok to be a “messy” parent. We need to normalize, not stigmatize, messy parenting. This means embracing our feelings and mistakes and learning from them, using them to grow and learn as parents. It means using our own struggles to help our children understand how to manage the “messiness” and challenges of life through example and open communication. Indeed, one of the best ways we can teach our children how to manage their mental health is by modeling how we deal with life’s difficulties, including how we parent them and how we embrace, process and manage our own mistakes.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

0:26 Why we need to give ourselves permission to be “messy” parents

1:35 How to avoid the parent guilt & shame spiral

2:00, 6:44, 21:16 What Ted Lasso tells us about “messy” parenting

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace.
0:11.2	Parents, I'm here to tell you that it's okay to be a messy parent.
0:16.6	Hey, I'm a mom of four.
0:19.7	I'm a messy parent and it's okay to be a mess.
0:23.0	It is impossible not to be a messy parent and the more you try to be a perfect parent,
0:28.1	the more mess you're going to actually make and the more frustrated you will become.
0:31.8	So to sort of manage this messiness, which is kind of what we're trying to do as well
0:36.6	as parents, we need to give ourselves permission to be a mess.
0:41.2	And in fact, this is so important that this is actually the second podcast that I'm doing
0:46.1	on messy parenting.
0:48.1	We know this podcast is called Cleaning Up the Mental Mace, but I really specifically
0:52.0	want to bring it down to messy parenting because it's so hard to be a parent.
0:59.3	It's great, but it's hard.
1:00.6	And that's why I've been out this book this year as well on the 8th of August called,
1:04.5	how to help your child clean up their mental mace.
1:08.1	So as we are cleaning up our mace and helping our children clean up their mace, we make
1:12.7	a lot of messiness along the way.
1:15.5	And it's okay, we need to normalize and celebrate being messy parents.
1:20.6	And in that way, when we've got this honesty and authenticity about saying, hey listen,
1:24.6	I messed up here.
1:25.6	I don't know how to fix this all.
1:27.1	I did this, I did that.
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