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Every parent raising a child today is confronting something no generation has faced before and most have no map for it.
In this episode, Dr. Shefali joins Learning Differently to introduce her new books, Raising Conscious Daughters and Raising Conscious Sons, built from interviews with 50 girls and 50 boys and decades of clinical work. She explains why boys and girls need separate books, not separate boxes, because culture treats them differently and their developmental timelines diverge, even as the underlying work of conscious parenting stays the same.
She walks through what's actually driving each crisis: boys navigating a crisis of masculinity, exposure to the manosphere, looksmaxing, disordered eating, pornography, and a missing rite of passage into manhood; girls navigating a crisis of selfhood, perfectionism, social comparison, and a sense of worth outsourced to social media.From there, the conversation turns to what parents can actually do about it, modeling self-acceptance, building real brotherhood and mentorship for boys, bringing social media trends to the dinner table, and applying the same core principles no matter a child's gender identity.
This is a roadmap for any parent raising a child between 4 and 24 who wants to understand what their kid is actually up against.
In this episode, Dr. Shefali joins Learning Differently to introduce her new books, Raising Conscious Daughters and Raising Conscious Sons, built from interviews with 50 girls and 50 boys and decades of clinical work. She explains why boys and girls need separate books, not separate boxes, because culture treats them differently and their developmental timelines diverge, even as the underlying work of conscious parenting stays the same.
She walks through what's actually driving each crisis: boys navigating a crisis of masculinity, exposure to the manosphere, looksmaxing, disordered eating, pornography, and a missing rite of passage into manhood; girls navigating a crisis of selfhood, perfectionism, social comparison, and a sense of worth outsourced to social media.From there, the conversation turns to what parents can actually do about it, modeling self-acceptance, building real brotherhood and mentorship for boys, bringing social media trends to the dinner table, and applying the same core principles no matter a child's gender identity.
This is a roadmap for any parent raising a child between 4 and 24 who wants to understand what their kid is actually up against.
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