When Our Nervous Systems Hijack Our Parenting - Revisit
If you’ve yelled at your kid, you’re not a bad parent. You’re a good parent with an overwhelmed nervous system. In today’s revisit from the Good Inside archives, Dr. Becky breaks down the science behi...
18 Aug 21min
Why Am I Always on the Edge?
Your kid hits. Melts down the second you leave the house. Argues about everything, all day, every single day. You've tried the time-outs, the consequences, the calm-down corner. Nothing works. Why are...
11 Aug 34min
When Depression Doesn't Look Like Depression
What does depression look like? It’s not always… sadness. It can be anger. Irritability. Picking fights. Checking out. Taking risks that don't make sense. It can look, to everyone around you — includi...
4 Aug 43min
Sex? After Kids? Tell Me More, Esther Perel - Revisit
What happens when two become three, or four, or five? Who is responsible for the needs and wants of a couple when days are filled with playdates, pick-ups, and meal preps? Nights lack the erotic energ...
28 Jul 36min
Belle Burden: The Burden of Being the "Good Girl"
Belle Burden was, by her own account, the good girl. Quiet, compliant, the kid who wrote her own book report and did her homework on Friday afternoons. Then one night in the second week of the 2020 lo...
21 Jul 35min
You Are the Technology That Builds Your Child's Brain
There's a lot of noise about what AI will do to jobs. What will it do to one of the most important jobs in the world: parenting? Dr. Dana Suskind is a pediatric cochlear implant surgeon and neuroscie...
14 Jul 33min
Great Dads Are Made, Not Born: The Neuroscience of Fatherhood
When a woman becomes a mother, her brain physically reorganizes around the baby. We've known this for a while. What we didn't know (until recently) is that the same thing happens to dads. Dr. Darby Sa...
7 Jul 32min
Are You Pushing Your Kid or Managing Your Fear?
“If I don’t push my kid, they’ll waste their potential.” A lot of us believe this. But is it true? Myleik Teele joins Dr. Becky to work through a question that haunts every ambitious parent. What unfo...
30 Jun 36min
