Are You Asking Your Kids a Lot?

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"I want to teach them to be givers, not takers or even receivers," he says. "Our questions to our kids are some of the most powerful interventions." He asks his four-year-old: Who did you help today? And then they're going to do something because they think that that matters.

As a clinical psychologist, Becky Kennedy works with parents to raise good kids. She’s best known as Dr. Becky on Instagram, and has been called the "Millennial parenting whisperer" for good reason. Becky and Adam challenge the widespread belief that it’s a parent’s job to make their children happy, talk candidly about the surprisingly difficult task of setting and maintaining boundaries, and dig into the science and practice of helping kids (and adults) deal with the ups and downs of life. Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts