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Ep 02 - Help! My Survival Brain is Parenting My Kid
Survival brain is a universal feature of parenting. When our inner cave person is activated, fear dominates, as we worry about our kid’s ability to survive a dangerous world. When survival brain comes online, everything is an emergency, our ability to think rationally is short-circuited, and molehills become mountains. As our brains quickly spiral, we imagine that the kid who isn’t doing his homework tonight will be doomed to a lifetime of failure and destitution.
While the threat-mitigation behavior coded in our DNA helps us protect our offspring from the most dire threats, it prevents us…
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