Your Kids Are Watching: A Guide to Modeling Healthy Habits
The Full Listener's Guide
We’re bringing together six of our most powerful conversations on parenting — from applying the Five Factors to family life, to helping kids navigate adversity, to designing environments where healthy choices happen naturally.
You’ll discover why modeling health beats managing behavior, how your daily habits become your children’s baseline for normal, and why the hardest work you’ll ever do is also the most meaningful.
Last week, we published an essay titled Your Ceiling Becomes Their Starting Point — a complete guide to building healthy family habits." This supercut is the raw material behind that essay: years of conversations about how to raise resilient kids while maintaining your own health.
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5 Big Ideas
1. Modeling Beats Managing
The most exhausting part of parenting isn’t managing your kids’ behavior — it’s trying to control outcomes you can’t actually control.
Children are biological learning machines designed to copy what they see, not necessarily obey what they hear. When you focus on micro-managing every detail of your child’s choices, you’re fighting biology. When you focus on consistently demonstrating the behaviors you want to see, you’re working with it.
