Beyond ‘Just Try Your Best’: How to Foster Realistic Goals and Healthy Self-Worth in Kids

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired in December 2022.

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Joshua Sparrow, child, adolescent, and general psychiatrist and associate professor or psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. We delve into how to help children develop realistic goals and positive self-regard, and why the common parenting phrase “just try your best” could actually be harmful.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.0	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:10.0	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:11.0	I'm Dr. Eliza Pressman, and today I am joined
0:14.7	by renowned child psychiatrist, Dr. Joshua Sparrow.
0:19.5	He's the co-author of all of the Brazleton touchpoint books and he is such a wonderful voice of science and reason.
0:31.3	We're talking about helping kids cultivate positive self-regard and a particular parenting trap that is all too common. In fact, in real time I realized it was something I hadn't thought about,
0:44.7	which is the problem with saying, just try your best.
0:48.9	If you haven't had a chance, please take like 10 seconds and write a little review of the podcast on Apple
0:56.7	podcasts. It's so helpful. I so appreciate it and you can do the same on Amazon for my book, The Five Principles of Parenting, but I don't want to be greedy.
1:08.0	For sure it helps.
1:11.0	Anything helps.
1:12.0	And also, I understand that everybody is overwhelmed and I hope
1:16.8	I can alleviate some of that overwhelm and not add a pile of things for you to do.
1:26.6	When kids and teenagers, even younger children, interpret the world with the least generous interpretation.
1:30.6	There is an interpretation of the world of a teacher's response to them of something
1:36.1	that happened that day of other people's perceptions.
1:40.0	How you can support kids to shift that perspective without disregarding that perspective as their
1:52.0	lived experience.
1:54.3	I guess I think about it as the capacity for positive self-regard.
1:59.5	I think that's what you're talking about, the capacity for positive self-regard. You were talking about other
2:04.6	metaphors. I think about that as being a ship in the seas and sometimes it's clear sailing
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