164: Why Is My Kid Hooked on Luxury Skin Care?

Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Parenting

Dr. Lisa Damour/Good Trouble Productions

Kids & Family, Mental Health, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Lisa and Reena respond to a letter from a parent who feels uneasy about her ten-year-old’s sudden interest in expensive skin care products. The parent finds herself stuck between two bad options: buying her daughter products that are costly and unnecessary, or being at odds with her daughter because she refuses to do so. Dr. Lisa and Reena unpack the many forces that come together - some new, some age-old - to drive the current trend of tweens and teens taking an interest in high-end skin care routines. Their conversation addresses how kids’ interest in luxury skin care can open up critical conversations about peer pressure, social media marketing, and unrealistic beauty standards. Follow and subscribe to our YouTube channel where you can see all our latest video episodes: https://youtube.com/@asklisapodcast And follow us on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn @AskLisaPodcast, @Lisa.Damour, @ReenaNinan. Checkout Dr. Lisa’s website for more resources: https://www.drlisadamour.com/ Ask Lisa is produced by: https://www.goodtroubleproductions.com

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rina Ninean and this is Ask Lisa, the Psychology of Parenting Podcast.
0:10.7	It's a podcast to help parents better understand their kids. Dr. Lisa DeMore, a psychologist with three
0:17.2	decades of experience, and the author of three New York Times best-selling parenting
0:21.8	books takes your questions. Both of us are moms ourselves, and we're eager to hear from you.
0:27.1	So send us your questions to Ask Lisa at Dr.LisaDemore.com. And you can join our community by
0:32.8	following us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The handle is Ask Lisa Podcast.
0:38.5	And also subscribe to our brand new YouTube channel, Ask Lisa Podcast.
0:43.3	Episode 164, why is my kid hooked on luxury skin care?
0:51.6	Well, we wanted to do this episode for a while because we have heard from so many of our listeners that their daughters, their tweens and teens, are really into skin care.
1:02.1	And some parents are wondering, is there a point when it's a little too much?
1:06.6	Mm-hmm.
1:07.1	No, this is, this is like hot and interesting.
1:10.8	I think complicated.
1:13.3	Complicated. I want to get into the complicated. Let me read you this letter. It says,
1:16.6	Dear Dr. Lisa, I'm listening to your podcast all the way from Romania. Yes, way across the pond,
1:23.1	well at the outskirts of Europe, I could say. I can't even remember how I came across your podcast, but I'm thrilled I did.
1:29.5	It helps tremendously with raising an opinionated, strong-minded, yet anxious daughter, so I cannot thank you enough for this.
1:35.9	Moving on to my actual question, my 10-year-old daughter seems to have made a fixation on skincare products and related videos on YouTube.
1:43.7	All her friends buy and use a lot of
1:45.8	stuff. Some of them totally inappropriate for their age, like serums, for instance. I try to fight it,
1:51.7	but it's become increasingly difficult. So I started doing the appropriate research, and I gave
1:56.9	in to what was generally considered non-harmful, a face cleanser, a hydrating creep,
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