Jessica Lahey

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 249: Jessica Lahey on Her New Book, The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence · 6 Apr 2021 podcast

It's about health generally.

There's actually this one book that I bought.

I I when I start to research a book, I essentially my advance goes to books.

I mean, I buy every book I can find.

And there actually is somewhere in my bookshelves the oh here it is.

I am holding in my hands a book.

You're gonna love this, a book called Stony the Pony.

Teaching it children about addiction through metaphor and it's of essentially about a pony who becomes a little bit crazed by those mints that we give ponies sometimes.

And all of his friends are like, Dude, you have a problem with those mints.

And h and he experiences pony ostracism from his fri I mean, it's just it's very funny.

But it's also that's kind of beside the point and it's cute, and I'm glad someone went to that effort.

But really it's about talking about health and talking about what's good for our bodies and what's bad for our bodies.

And that includes a discussion about how our brains are growing and how

you know, the things that kids find difficult, like whether that's impulse control or moderating their sugar intake, is is part of growing up, that that's a part of how our brains develop.

And and someday when they're when they're big, when they're gonna be adults, that that will become easier for them, but their brains are still developing.

And that's an important part of teaching them about themselves too.

And by the way, I've used that that line about being fully baked and it does not go over in a d in an addiction talk if I can survive.

I made that metaphor once and I was like

Yeah, that didn't didn't go over too well, you know.

Um, but the the reality is and and there the statistics, if you look at the statistics, you know, if your kid starts drinking or taking drugs in middle school, then they have a very high chance of having substance use disorder in adulthood.

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