Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

#513 Keeping Control and Letting It Go

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Episode notes

Justin & Kylie answer a listener's question about screen time limits

Topics discussed in today's podcast:

• Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime
• Control is easy but it doesn't teach
• You can fence the pool but you can't fence the ocean
• How long can we bubble wrap our kids?
• Cocooning
• Reasoned cocoon
• Prearming
• Reasoned deference
• Deference
• What do we do when they make a mistake?

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