Raising Mentally Strong Kids, with Dr. Daniel Amen, and Inside the Tragic "Rust" Set Shooting, with Rachel Mason | Ep. 1039
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How can we raise mentally strong kids?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. We're going to talk parenting for a minute. How do we raise confident, able kids in our post-pandemic, always online, annoying society? My next guest may be familiar to you if you spend any time on Instagram, which is where I found him. He's got some amazing advice for all of us. Dr. Daniel Amen is a double board certified psychiatrist, including of child psychiatry and author of the book, Raising Mentally Strong Kids. How to combine the power of neuroscience with love and logic to grow confident, kind, responsible, and resilient children and young adults.
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Hi, Megan. What a joy. I've followed your work for a long time. I'm a huge fan.
Oh, gosh. Thank you for saying that. Likewise. So I always love your posts. They always make sense to me. I always get like an additional pearl of wisdom that I didn't have before. The one that made me say, could we please book him? Please get him on the show was one in which you were talking about. This is the condensed version. Today, parents do way too much for their children.
What mistakes do parents make that affect children's self-esteem?
and they steal their self-esteem. And you are making the point that you may think you're doing all the household chores or whatever it is. In our neighborhood, all the parents drop their kids off at the bus stop. Like what? Back in my day, we had to walk to the bus stop and wait for the... They sit in these beautiful SUVs and whatever. You may think you're helping or being kind to your child and you are making the point that's a you thing. You're doing that to make yourself feel good and you are stealing something important from your kid in the process. Let's kick it off there.
Well, because parents are working so hard, they often have this tremendous guilt about not spending enough time with their children. And so they do, do, do, do, thinking it's somehow benefiting them, but really it's building the parent's self-esteem. by stealing your child's. There's this great study out of Harvard where they followed kids literally over 70 years looking at what goes with health, success, and longevity. And the only thing that went with self-esteem was whether or not you worked as a child, whether or not you had a paper route, or you had chores at home, or you actually like me, I had a job. My dad owned grocery stores, and from the time I was 10, I went to work. And what working does is it boosts your sense of competence and competence is directly related to self-esteem. So if you're solving all of your children's problems, they don't feel competent and thus don't feel very good about themselves.
Why is it important for parents to allow children to solve their own problems?
Yes. No, I see this with parents all the time where they solve their child's problems, not necessarily speaking about homework, but just the kid comes up with, well, this kid did this to me. And rather than teaching the child how to think it through, they say, this is what you should do. And I think a lot of parents enjoy the dependency that results from that.
No question that they get... in their mind more connection. And, you know, I mean, it's so rewarding. Take the wisdom you gained over decades and pour it. down your child's brain. The problem is it just doesn't work. What we're teaching them is to not be competent. And when a child says, I'm bored, rather than go, well, you could do this, or you could do that, or how about we do this together?
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Chapters
7 chapters
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How can we raise mentally strong kids?
0:00–2:09
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What mistakes do parents make that affect children's self-esteem?
2:09–4:07
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Why is it important for parents to allow children to solve their own problems?
4:07–10:32
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How does positivity bias affect mental health?
10:32–19:50
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What role do brain scans play in diagnosing mental health?
19:50–23:06
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Can brain injuries be reversed through rehabilitation?
23:06–27:13
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How does substance abuse impact brain health?
27:13–1:13:36
Speakers
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