Episode-by-episode discussion of Good Inside by Becky Kennedy — a kid who is good inside, a parent who is too, and the repair that matters more than the rupture. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of Burnout Books to Podcasts.
7 episodes listed below. All 30 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
The longest chapter in the book and the most practical. We walk through the deposits — Play No Phone Time, fill-the-tank moments, the specific small rituals — and why the balance you have built is what you spend during a hard week.
The most common complaint in parenting, and Dr Becky reframes it entirely. We go through why listening is downstream of connection, what to do when you have asked four times, and the move that works better than asking a fifth.
An emotional tantrum is a nervous system overwhelmed, not a negotiation. We cover what helps during one, what reliably makes it worse, and why your job in that moment is smaller and harder than you think.
The ones that frighten parents, because they look like character. We go through Dr Becky's approach to aggression — stopping the body, keeping the child, and what to say afterwards that is neither a lecture nor a shrug.
Trying to make it equal is how sibling rivalry gets worse. We cover why Dr Becky aims at each child feeling uniquely known rather than identically treated, and how to handle the one who insists the other got more.
The eye roll, the no, the deliberate button-press. We work through what is underneath it developmentally, why it tends to spike with the parent the child feels safest with, and how to hold a line without a power struggle.
Whining is a sound that bypasses your patience entirely. We go through what the voice is actually communicating, why telling them to ask nicely usually fails, and the response Dr Becky suggests instead.
We discuss it chapter by chapter, but nothing replaces reading it. This is an Amazon affiliate link — it costs you nothing extra and it helps pay for the show.
30 episodes in this show, 1,100+ across the whole network, and a new one every day.
More chapter-by-chapter shows: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents · The Anxious Generation
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