With over 1.5 million downloads to date, the Raising Boys and Girls podcast has been encouraging and empowering parents with help and hope for top-of-mind topics such as technology, emotions, family life, and more! Sissy Goff, David Thomas, and Melissa Trevathan are back with topics and guests that will inspire you along your journey of raising kids in today’s world. Season 4 will be centered around the book Modern Parents, Vintage Values balancing the value of old school truths with the reality of what kids need in today’s world. We hope you’ll join us as we lead conversations around confidence, entitlement, responsibility, emotions, technology, gratitude, and respect to name a few.

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It’s important for kids to have a sense of purpose so that everything isn’t all about them. Melissa Trevathan

What’s different for kids today:

Technology

Kids learning how to talk about their feelings

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Kids are Googling everything so they diagnose themselves.

We need to help kids learn to name their feelings but keep perspective.

Today’s parents are over attending. 

We used to call it child-rearing but now we call it parenting. It’s shifted from being about the child to being about the parent.

Today’s kids are busy. Busyness leads to exhaustion which leads to a lack of awareness. Melissa Trevathan

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We need to listen to and understand our kids but then we need to help our kids take steps forward. David Thomas

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Three things that kids need today:

1. Responsibility
2. Regulation
3. Confidence

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Anxiety in kids is an overestimation of the problem and an underestimation of themselves. Sissy Goff

Get the book, Modern Parents, Vintage Values, and follow along this season!