Raise Her Up - Finding your tribe and feeling 'enough'

Finding your tribe and feeling 'enough'

10/06/21 • 25 min

How many times have you told your child, ‘it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks!’ However, caring about what people think, and deferring to others’ judgement is an essential part of our young people’s identity development. So what can we do to help them navigate the challenge of comparing themselves to everyone else and finding themselves lacking?

To mark World Mental Health day, in this episode we welcome the brilliant Dr Tina Mistry, clinical psychologist, writer, speaker, podcaster and mental health expert. She’ll be reminding us of the need to validate our young people’s emotions and reactions, rather than soothing them away in a way that doesn’t really bring any long-term solution or comfort. She will also be explaining how caring what others think is a vital step on the journey to greater self-awareness and self-confidence.

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Equal Parenting

In this episode, we speak to Dr Charlotte Faircloth from the University College of London about how to model equal parenting in the home.

It is widely accepted now that the examples set at home by parents, care-givers and extended family shape how young people think about gender and equality, and have very real implications for issues of work-life balance and career progression later in life. Since fathers undoubtedly want the best for their daughters, why are we still seeing old patterns predominate? And what can both mums and dads, whether in heterosexual or same sex relationships, do to address this and ensure their daughters and sons are witnessing fair and ‘equal’ parenting?

Dr Faircloth gives practical and realistic tips on how we can model equal parenting within our own four walls.

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Our guest is Chloe Combi, writer, speaker, columnist and researcher. For her book Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives, Chloe interviewed over 10000 young people, and the insights she gained have informed her work with global brands on their future strategies. Currently researching and writing a follow up book on Generation A, she is also known for her itunes number 1-rated podcast You Don’t Know Me as well as her column for The Telegraph about teenage and family life.

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