Advice for Anxious Parents: What to Say Instead of "Are You Okay?"

In this week’s The Parent Chat, clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Wendy Mogel joins Dylan Dreyer to make the case that our instinct to protect, schedule, and smooth everything over for our kids is actually making them more fragile — and what to do instead. They get into the real stuff: why "teacup" kids break under the lightest pressure, how to tell if your child's fighting with siblings is normal or a problem, and why the working parent guilt about overscheduling is largely misplaced. Plus the two words Dr. Mogel says every parent should know — "wow" and "uffda" — and why Dylan's been using one of them her whole life without knowing what it meant. And Dr. Mogel's parenting confession: she sent her sick daughter to ski school in Italy with a broken thermometer. The daughter ended up hallucinating that her fingers were chicken bones. She's never forgiven herself — even though her daughters call her a really good mom. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.