About this episode
Aliza Pressman discusses effective parenting strategies and their parallels with management and leadership.
Aliza Pressman is a developmental psychologist who hosts the Raising Good Humans podcast. In this episode, Aliza and Adam dive into the evidence on effective parenting strategies, weighing the advantages and disadvantages of different styles and approaches from “gentle parenting” to “authoritative parenting.” They also reflect on ways that they have each faltered as parents, and suggest guidelines for parents to balance support and autonomy. And they identify which parenting skills are also hallmarks of good management and leadership. Featured guest Follow Aliza Pressman on Instagram , LinkedIn , and draliza. com/ Connect with the team Follow Adam on Instagram , LinkedIn , and at adamgrant.net/ Subscribe to Adam’s substack Granted Watch ReThinking videos on YouTube at TEDAudioCollective Follow TED on X , Instagram , Facebook , LinkedIn , and TikTok ReThinking is produced by Cosmic Standard . Our Senior Producer is Jessica Glazer, our Engineer is Aja Simpson, our Technical Director is Jacob Winik, and our Executive Producer is Eliza Smith. For the full text transcript, visit ted.com/podcasts/rethinking-with-adam-grant-transcripts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…
People in this episode
Host: Adam Grant
Guest: Aliza Pressman
Topics covered
- effective parenting
- parenting strategies
- gentle parenting
- authoritative parenting
- management skills
- leadership
Keywords
- parenting
- developmental psychology
- parenting styles
- support and autonomy
- leadership skills
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Raising Good Humans, TED, Cosmic Standard, Acast
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