Why Enabling Your Kid Feels Like Love (But Isn't) with Mike Koenigs
About this episode
Vivian Glyck and her husband Mike Koenigs discuss the challenges of enabling children and the importance of boundaries in parenting.
Twenty-five years of marriage, and the hardest thing we ever did together wasn't staying in love. It was learning to stop rescuing our son. In this episode I sit down with my husband, Mike Koenigs, an entrepreneur and AI educator, and we get brutally honest about the years we were terrified our family was coming apart. The thing I had to face is that I'd been a bad mom by over-enabling, and Mike walks through his concept of Relationship Velocity, the "hard absolutes" a skilled interventionist helped us build when things got scary, and his blunt take on how reaching for the easy fix, whether that's the phone or a pill too soon, can quietly become the habit. Here's what Mike knows that most parents don't: the harder you make it for your kid in the short run, the better it goes for everyone over the long run, and a unified front between parents matters more than being right. You'll walk away knowing why boundaries don't always look kind but are the greatest gift you can give, and how to do the next right thing instead of carrying all of it yourself. FOR FULL SHOW NOTES & TO WATCH THE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE, GO TO: badmompodcast.com/mike KEY TAKEAWAYS: The phrase Mike uses for handing…
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