Click here for great holiday gift ideas for everyone on your list Dr. Becky Kennedy on self-trust, boundaries and letting kids struggle Dr. Becky Kennedy’s daughter once wrote home from summer camp asking for more bikinis, including one from a pricey brand her friends had.
By their phone call a few days later, she didn’t care about any of it. For Kennedy, a clinical psychologist and the founder of Good Inside, that exchange says a lot about raising confident kids at a time when parents can fix almost any discomfort with a tap. She defines confidence as self-trust, built in the hard moments we’re most tempted to smooth over.
In a candid conversation on The Motherly Podcast, Kennedy opens up about the two jobs every parent has, why “I just want my kid to be happy” falls short and how to support a struggling kid with one foot in and one foot out. **Meet the expert:** Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, the founder and CEO of Good Inside and the author of three New York Times bestsellers. Known to millions of parents simply as Dr.
Becky, she teaches an approach built on two core parenting jobs, holding boundaries and validating feelings, and on the idea that kids grow confident by getting through hard moments with support. With Carter’s, she recently launched the Childhood Confidence Project, a free program for parents. A Duke graduate, she lives in New York City with her husband and their three kids.
Liz Tenety: Today we’re talking about raising confident kids, which is also about being confident as a parent. What makes you feel more confident as a mom? **Dr. Becky Kennedy:** I don’t ever assume I have the right answer.
I’m not that attached to the right answer. I’m very attached to having a way to think through problems, and it makes me think about the difference in the question “What do I do? What am I gonna say?” versus “What’s really going on here?
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