Sana Khadar

I guess from reading the book and hearing you speak in other interviews, it feels like emotional maturity kind of boils down to capacity for self-reflection.

So the question is, how do you foster emotional maturity in your own children?

How do you act as an emotionally mature parent, especially if you might not have had that modeled to you before?

And how do you maintain a good open relationship with your kid so that hopefully they don't grow up to cut you off one day?

Because estrangement is something Lindsay sees a lot of.

These are the questions that Lindsay is trying to answer in her new book, How to Raise an Emotionally Mature Child.

So one of the things you do in the book is you describe several parental mindsets for maturity, which will encourage, you know, eventual maturity in kids.

And I just wanted to touch on a couple of them.

Mindset one is my child is a unique individual with their own interests.

Can you talk about why that is an important mindset to have?

In some sense, that feels so obvious.

Of course, your child is different.

But I also am keenly aware of how much some parents do not recognize this and really struggle when their kid is quite different to them.

I'm thinking slightly

of myself and one of my parents.

When people struggle to grasp this, where does that come from?

Like, is it their own upbringing?

Is it traditional parenting values?

Is it personality traits?

What is that?