#123: Why Giving Makes Your Kids Happier (with guest Jonathan Wicksall)

Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker

Dr. Meg Meeker

Kids & Family, Education, Parenting, Self-improvement

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

As we enter the season traditionally centered around kids getting gifts, it can be hard to help them remember that it’s better to give than to receive. For kids, this can be a hard concept to grasp. In light of this, Dr. Meg spends most of this episode giving you practical advice on how to teach your kids to be givers. Teaching them to have giving hearts teaches them about the value of other people being equal to their value, and it also helps get rid of any sense of entitlement. Dr. Meeker also talks to her friend Jonathan Wicksall about his organization NeedU.org where you can set up giving opportunities for people you know who are in need. Do you have a question for Dr. Meg to answer in an upcoming social question episode? If so, email them to [email protected] and listen to future episodes to see if your question is featured! WELCOME Dr. Meg starts this episode by introducing this special episode around the idea of giving and how it makes your kids happier in the long term. She also talks about her friend, Jonathan Wicksall’s organization NeedU. A SPECIAL TALK ON TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN TO BE GIVERS BREAK A CONVERSATION WITH JONATHAN WICKSALL In today’s episode Dr. Meeker talks with Jonathan Wicksall about his organization, NeedU, and how you can use their website to set up giving opportunities for people in need. PARENT PEP RALLY FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode 12, Why Giving Makes Your Kids Happier and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach almost FIVE MILLION downloads! Subscribe, rate, and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram @MegMeekerMD Have a parenting question? Write Dr. Meg at [email protected] and she could answer your question during the show or you can let us know what you’d like to hear about in a future episode! Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools are available at www.megmeekermd.com and click on “Parenting Resources”. Subscribe, rate, and leave a review for us on iTunes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Parents are you tired of your kids not listening to you when you say no stop that they run out of the room don't pay any attention to you
0:09.3	Listen up. I'm going to be giving a free webinar. I'll tell you more about it at the end of the program and I will teach you five secrets to use when no stops working.
0:22.0	The webinar is free. It's live, go to my website meker parenting.com
0:26.5	and sign up. It's going to be a life changer.
0:30.6	For 30 plus years I've seen every type of child grow up. Instead of
0:37.8	giving me what I wanted she gave me what I needed which was truth. Don't let emotions win.
0:43.8	Let truth win.
0:45.3	Do your very best and you should have a lot of fun
0:47.1	while you do it and the better you get at something
0:48.9	the more fun you're going to have at something.
0:50.4	You moms and dads are wired with everything you need to be a parent to a great kid.
0:57.0	Welcome to parenting great kids. Today we have an unusual podcast.
1:03.1	I'm going to talk to you solo about why giving
1:08.7	makes your kids happy.
1:11.4	And it's going to be a wonderful podcast we're in the season of
1:15.6	Advent and Hanukkah and this is a time when we need to help our kids quiet down
1:22.4	where we need to calm down we need to be more
1:24.9	pensive and we need to focus differently than we usually do rather than
1:30.8	focusing on this all the stuff we need to get done and you know our work
1:35.6	and getting our kids to school and all of the stresses that we've had over the past
1:40.6	year many of us are feeling exhausted We kind of want to pull our
1:44.8	hair out and we don't even know if we can deal with this season because it just
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