Mind Brew | 20 October 2020 | 1h 03m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Shirley Pastiroff about her book The Mindful Parent: How to Stay Sane, Stay Calm and Stay Connected to Your Kids. Offers concrete advice for connecting with our children when the pace of modern life causes us to lose touch with our natural parenting intuitions.
The most important thing to bear in mind as a parent is the Judith Rich Harris discovery: what you do as a parent doesn’t matter much to the sort of adult your child becomes. So try not to be stressed! Try to enjoy childhood!
(Also discussed by Bryan Caplan.)
Agreed. Judith Rich Harris’s The Nurture Assumption is one of my all-time favourite books. See here for an ABC interview with her.