The Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child with Ned Johnson: Episode 203
Description
In this episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, is a conversation with Ned Johnson who is the co-author of three books including his most recent The Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child: A Workbook. This is Ned’s fourth time coming on the podcast and this time we discuss letting kids learn from controlling their own lives and making mistakes, being kids “technology consultants”, and motivating teens to make changes when they are engaging in unhealthy behaviours.
We talk about:
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6:30 What is a self driven child?
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11:50 How parental anxiety leads to not giving kids control over their own lives
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15:52 Why we need to stop forcing our kids to do things
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18:00 Why kids should be in charge of their own college/university applications
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26:00 Letting kids learn from their own mistakes/natural consequences
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32:00 How do we handle our kids’ tech use without controlling them?
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45:00 How to handling fighting over a teen’s phone use
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50:00 Case study about an autistic teen who is smoking a lot of weed
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
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The Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child: A Workbook
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What Really Works for Children with Autism by Peter Vermeulen
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