Aliza Pressman is a child development and parenting expert, developmental psychologist and the host of the weekly podcast Raising Good Humans. She talks with Polly about her own experiences of having moved across the country during the pandemic, changing schools and neighborhoods, with her two children, one a teenager and the other a preteen. Polly and Aliza discuss the problems of today’s parenting when you feel like a “peer” to your kids because they can’t see friends, and so you’re trying to be a “friend.” Aliza talks about what parents can do to structure the day with kids at home so much, and together Polly and Aliza describe how parents create the “emotional weather” in the kids’ lives growing up.
Conscious Parenting in Troubling Times: An Interview with Aliza Pressman