#43 The lost art of raising happy, helpful kids, with author Michaeleen Doucleff (in English)
Although parenting is perhaps the most natural thing a human being can do, at the same time it’s hard being a parent in modern Western society. Compared to parenting cultures around the world, we're actually pretty weird. Children are almost excluded from our grown-up world. We have come to believe that our kids have to be entertained all the time, that an authoritarian approach is the way to teach new things, and that tantrums and disobedience are just a part of normal. And all this causes a lot of struggle. Luckily, there is an easier way. For ourselves (less guilt!), but also to raise autonomous, helpful, happy kids. Out of the thousands of parenting books written, the New York Times bestseller: Hunt, Gather Parent is perhaps the most profound to read. Why? Because it's not about some new thought-up parenting strategy. It’s about how humanity raises children for thousands and thousands of years. Author Michaeleen Doucleff took her daughter to travel to three of the oldest cultures in the world – the Maya (Mexico), the Inuit (Northern Canada) and the Hadzabe (Tanzania) – to find answers to her parenting struggles and her mind was blown. In this episode, Michaeleen shares what she learned and I can tell you: it’s groundbreaking. The book Hunt, Gather, Parent is available on Bol.com: https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/hunt-gather-parent/9300000043889390/?bltgh=lk9RsVwhyQZNezvA4YFKLw.4_14.18.ProductTitle As well is the Dutch version Jagen, Verzamelen, Opvoeden: https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/jagen-verzamelen-opvoeden/9300000016554822/?bltgh=h3hUWJR-qV8crPPSX1pJUA.2_29.31.ProductTitle Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.