What Would Dr. Becky Do?
Big Time Adulting
Caitlin Murray
4.9 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
There’s no shortage of parenting advice today, and it can often feel overwhelming, causing us to second guess ourselves constantly. Today on the pod, we have clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy, who needs no introduction because she was dubbed the “millennial parenting whisperer” by TIME magazine, and has sparked a parenting revolution. Dr. Becky believes that everything we need is already inside us and she wants to help us move from uncertainty and self-blame to confidence and sturdy leadership. Her brand, Good Inside, boasts a New York Times bestselling book, a podcast, and a massively successful membership community that offers millions of parents tools that focus on the "parent behind the parenting and the child behind the behavior."
In this episode, Caitlin and Dr. Becky address the stress around back to school and how to handle anxious emotions, clinginess, and bullying. They also discuss how to approach different parenting styles, why the normal strategies and scripts don’t work on some kids, and how to repair after losing our shit and yelling at our kids. You don’t want to miss this dynamic conversation. And please check out Becky’s phenomenal TED talk about “the single most important parenting strategy.”
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| 0:00.0 | Becky, welcome aboard to the Big Time Adalting Podcast. How are you? |
| 0:10.3 | I'm great. I'm great. I'm so excited to be talking to you. So thank you for having me. |
| 0:14.5 | It's so great to have you. I just have to start off by saying that, like, on social media, I have sometimes been like, I don't know, |
| 0:24.5 | there's just so much parenting advice out there these days. I find this to be overwhelming |
| 0:31.0 | to me. It makes me sometimes feel worse as a mom. You are this internet sensation revered by celebrities, parents, experts |
| 0:42.7 | everywhere, giving advice left and right of ways that are changing lots of people's lives |
| 0:48.9 | in terms of parenting. I've gotten that feedback before on my messages. She changed our life. |
| 0:55.5 | What do you want people to know about you that they might not know about you or get about you from the way that you are presented on your social media, in your podcast, etc? |
| 1:10.8 | I've never been asked that question before. |
| 1:13.5 | I always have a hard time giving a single answer to great nuanced questions. |
| 1:18.5 | So I'll say a couple things. |
| 1:19.6 | So number one, like, I really, really mean that my kids do not have Dr. Becky as their |
| 1:27.1 | mom. |
| 1:28.1 | And all the time, my husband would be like, did you see Dr. Becky's posts? |
| 1:34.5 | Like, that could really help you with all the things you've been doing with our children. |
| 1:38.9 | You know, like it really is this part of me. |
| 1:41.9 | And yet with our own kids, we all know this. |
| 1:45.9 | There's a big difference between knowledge and action. And I have my own triggers. I have my own moments. I have my own weeks in a row |
| 1:52.8 | where I'm like, wow, I just haven't been showing up the way I want. I really have watched some of my |
| 1:56.7 | workshops with my husband. I actually have because it feels like it's two different kind of parts of |
| 2:00.9 | me. And so I really, really mean that. And Caitlin, what you said, learning anything new, I find |
| 2:07.8 | it's a very, very brave endeavor. Because whenever you're confronted with something you might not |
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