The Happiness Illusion
How Not to Screw Up Your Kids
English - May 24, 2023 23:30 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Education How To education children counselling dad doctor family kids mum parent parenting Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Is the pursuit of happiness for our children an illusion? Are we doing them a disservice making happiness our focus because it just isn't possible to feel that way all the time! Maybe we should be focusing on something else??
Here are the highlights:
(1:44) Why do we focus so much on happiness?
(4:08) We should be accepting of every emotion
(5:15) Don’t rush in to fix
(10:05) We need to regulate our own emotions in that moment
(15:06) How need to be emotional role models
(19:17) We need to empathise
(23:10) Don’t create a habit of trading feelings
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