137: Raising Kids Who Can Handle Hard Things with Dr. Kathryn Hecht

What if one of our most loving parenting instincts is accidentally making our kids less confident? Oof. As parents, we’re wired to help. To reassure. To rescue. To make the crying stop in the grocery store before everyone in aisle seven starts judging us. (You know what I mean?) But child psychologist Dr. Kathryn Hecht says kids aren’t nearly as fragile as we sometimes treat them. In fact, they need age-appropriate challenges to build what she calls “handleability”, that deep-down belief that...