143. Why Isn't Everyone Raising Conscious Children? with Dr. Shefali
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Emily Fletcher discusses conscious parenting with Dr. Shefali, focusing on the impact of early exposure to porn and the importance of initiating boys into their sexuality.
The average age a child first sees porn online is nine to eleven. They are not looking for it. It finds them. In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Dr. Shefali, who has been on Oprah more than any other guest and is one of the most trusted voices in conscious parenting alive today. She joins Emily with two new books just weeks apart, Raising Conscious Sons and Raising Conscious Daughters, and the two go deep on the questions Emily is sitting with in real time as a mother to a seven-year-old boy. They talk about what a screen is actually giving a child that a parent can learn to give instead, why the average boy is never initiated into his own sexuality or his own masculinity, and why that single gap traces a direct line to shame, misogyny, and the abuse now surfacing everywhere from the Epstein files to a website called Motherless. Dr. Shefali also opens up about what writing these two books dissolved in her, a judgment of an entire generation she didn't know she was carrying, and a new compassion for men she wasn't expecting to find. In this episode, Dr. Shefali explores: Why the average age for a child's first exposure to porn is nine to eleven, and why no one is…
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