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Letting Your Child Make Mistakes with Dr. Kim Mangham

Letting Your Child Make Mistakes with Dr. Kim Mangham

Update: 2025-06-24
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This week on Raising Joy, Wini King and Kristen Pyrc, M.D., analyze the positive effects of giving your child independence from an early age with Kim Mangham, M.D., a pediatrician from Cook Children’s Pediatrics - Keller Parkway.

Dr. Mangham details the strengths your child will develop if you let them make their own mistakes starting as early as the toddler years. Discover how these mistakes, with parent oversight, will better prepare your teen and college student to advocate for themselves as they navigate early adulthood. 

In this episode, you’ll learn: 

  • How to empower your child with supervision from an early age
  • Ways in which your child can contribute to the family to build adult skills
  • Taking care of yourself so your child learns to take care of their self as well
  • Ways in which your child can become a leader instead of being influenced
  • Allowing your child to grow from their mistakes with your help

This episode is filled with parent and caregiver advice to best empower and prepare your child for the independence of adulthood from an early age. 


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Letting Your Child Make Mistakes with Dr. Kim Mangham

Letting Your Child Make Mistakes with Dr. Kim Mangham

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