1KHO 790: Peers Are Raising Our Children | Dr. Gordon Neufeld, Hold On to Your Kids
5/6/202656 min
Parenting feels so much harder than it should and this conversation explains why. In this powerful and unforgettable episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Ginny Yurich sits down with Gordon Neufeld to talk about a critical shift that has changed childhood over the past many decades: kids turning to peers instead of parents for guidance, identity, and belonging. Drawing from his book Hold On to Your Kids, Dr. Neufeld shows why no parenting strategy can replace relationship, why independence has been misunderstood, and why the real work is getting your child’s heart back. This one will change how you see behavior, discipline, screens, and even the pressure to “socialize” kids and it will leave you with a deep sense that it’s not too late to rebuild what matters most. Get your copy of Hold On to Your Kids here Learn more about Dr. Neufeld and all he has to offer: https://neufeldinstitute.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsGinny Yurich· Host0:00
Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny určit, I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside, and I can hardly believe it. There is this book that I think every parent should read. It's called Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. It is eye-opening, it is shocking, it will change your life. Author Dr. Gordon Neufeld is here. Welcome.
Gordon Neufeld· Guest0:17
Pleased to be here, Ginny. Thank you for inviting me.
Ginny Yurich· Host0:21
This is the type of book that includes things that you maybe have never heard before, and that was my experience with it, is, "Oh, my goodness, I've never heard these things before." And I think that sometimes you're swept up in the sea of culture and, you know, you think, "Oh, my kids have to have friends," and all these types of things. And what you're doing is you're explaining how when culture changed and the orientation of our kids changed, it really has caused them to be in a spot where they're suffering. So could we kick it off with some of the history? So in this book, Hold On To Your Kids, you talk about how kids... And then you talk about this place you went, Provence, where the society is still kind of how things used to be here. You said that those people, they socialize as a family. They're more connected with the adults in their community. Could you give a little view of, like, what has changed? Because I think nobody really understands that things used to be different.
Gordon Neufeld· Guest1:18
Well, that's a good place to start, Ginny. Let me go back just, uh, just a bit before your direct question, when you were commenting on how the book held