How to Grow Independent Adults with Jessica Lahey
Release Date: 02/24/2021
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Key Takeaways:
[2:15] Jessica shares how her family has been doing during the pandemic.
[4:50] Are children getting what they need during the pandemic?
[6:58] Learn to parent in a more effective way.
[10:20] The pandemic brought teachers into every child’s home.
[11:30] Jessica talks about her book The Gift of Failure.
[15:07] Allowing your kids to struggle is tough work for parents.
[18:12] Helping your children to develop positive adaptive responses to failure.
[20:04] How does it look to let your kids struggle? Explain the why, show how to, and let them do it their way.
[25:20] Shifting parents from a punish paradigm to a reinforcement style, how can parents use praise to help change behaviors?
[27:43] Focus more on the process and less on the product.
[28:56] Jessica talks about the research on extrinsic motivation.
[30:04] We should aim for intrinsic motivation, but how to achieve it?
[31:30] Online learning is a learned skill.
[35:10] Jessica shares her opinion about parents and control.
[38:30] Parents need to find a new way of engaging.
[41:00] Jessica talks about parenting children struggling with substance abuse.
[46:30] Parents need to learn to sit with their own anxiety.
[48:46] Jessica explains why shutting down your child’s friendships never turns out the way that is expected.
[50:11] How to find natural consequences?
[53:38] Jessica talks about her new book that is about to be launched.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Center for Motivation and Change
Center for Motivation and Change on Facebook
Center for Motivation and Change on Twitter
Center for Motivation and Change on Linkedin
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The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, by Jessica Lahey
Tweetables and Quotes:
“Extrinsic rewards affect children’s motivation and learning.” @_TheCMC @DocJoshKing
“If you smooth the path for your children it limits their way to become autonomous.” @_TheCMC @DocJoshKing
“Giving children extrinsic motivators over the long term does not boost motivation; on the contrary they undermine it.” @_TheCMC @DocJoshKing
“Online learning is a skill that needs to be learned.” @_TheCMC @DocJoshKing
“Align yourself with your children, get to know about their feelings.” @_TheCMC @DocJoshKing