Your Kids Are Wired to Flourish — Here's How to Get Out of Their Way
5/29/202646 min
What if the most powerful thing you could do for your child's brain development has nothing to do with them at all? This episode is for any parent who has worried about screen time, big emotions, or whether they're doing enough — and hasn't realized that the most direct path to a flourishing child runs straight through their own mind. I'm joined by Dr. Richard Davidson, neuroscientist, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of Born to Flourish. What you'll learn: Why neuroplasticity is happening to your brain right now whether you want it to or not The four pillars of flourishing (awareness, connection, insight, and purpose) and the research-backed reason five minutes a day is enough to change your brain. Why flourishing is contagious — and what that means for the hardest kids, the most overwhelmed parents, and everyone in between. Sponsors: Great Wolf Lodge: Bring your pack together at a Lodge near you. Learn more at GreatWolf.com The RealReal: The most trusted name in authenticated luxury resale. Get 25$ off your first purchase when you go to The RealReal.com/humans OneSkin: Unlock your healthiest skin now and as you age. For a limited time, try OneSkin with 15% off using code RGH at oneskin.co/RGH KiwiCo: Build the best summer ever with KiwiCo. Get $10 off on your Summer Adventure Series at kiwico.com/SUMMER, promo code HUMANS.
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First 90 secondsAliza Pressman· Host0:00
[upbeat music] You've probably all heard the term neuroplasticity, and yet it's kind of hard to actually understand how you can influence the actual plasticity of the brain in your everyday life. And so I have the guy, the brilliant Professor Richard Davidson, giving us those kind of nuggets that really help you translate science from page to stage, and I just love those. He's talking about the relationships we have with our infants, what happens when you have negative beliefs, and how we can help shift those negative beliefs in ourselves, in our children, in our adolescents. And the most important nugget is a five-minute-a-day protocol. If you do it every single day, it actually changes your brain. Five minutes a day, even the busiest of us can do. So, I love when research is actually able to be applied to our real lives. I'm Dr. Aliza Pressman, and this is Raising Good Humans podcast. Okay. So I wanna start with neuroplasticity. What is it?