#197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make

I spent twelve years at MPR covering mostly viruses and they would send me around the world. What was really surprising to me and why I went on this journey to like learn this other way of parenting was when I came back to San Francisco and I tried some of these techniques and methods. They worked like amazing on my little girl. So what are some of these tips? I mean you summed it up with an acronym of TEAM. Yes. What is TEM and like Like let's make them practical for people. So the first thing T is like this idea of like A lot of the Western relationship, parent child relationship is based on control. The E is a different way. E is And the next one is autonomy. Yeah, this one's huge. If you could just change like one thing in your child's life, it that would be

M, I guess. We've sort of talked about this a little bit. Yeah. The M is like So praising is a really interesting topic that's very unique in Western society. In my entire travels, I've never seen a parent praise a child. Like it's not necessary. Okay, we do video games, it's like seven, eight. Today you have your homework done. I would cut out every day. Oh, I can't, yeah, no. But they don't need it. I don't.

I don't well You know If Parents are listening to this and they have a sixteen year old addicted to their phone. Yeah. What are the tangible things they can do in the next one month to sort of like help So here's how it works. Welcome to the Knowledge Project, a biweekly podcast exploring the powerful ideas, practical insights, and mental models of others.

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