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Sep 2024
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The #1 Parenting Strategy with Dr. Becky...

Glennon Doyle and Audacy
About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Becky Kennedy shares how we can connect better with our kids.


Discover: 

1. How to embody your authority while also validating your kid’s experience.

2. The #1 strategy for building resilience.

3. Why consequences and punishments backfire and don’t work.

4. How to sit with your child on the “benches” of their emotions.

5. One thing you can say to your kids to build connection in any circumstance.


About Dr. Becky:

Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. She’s rethinking the way we raise our children – empowering parents to feel sturdier and more equipped to manage the challenges of parenting. Dr. Becky is founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place; author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, which is out this month. And her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.

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