The Summer Series: Revisiting Flipping the Switch to Positive Parenting with Professor Lea Waters

It’s week three of our Summer Series of the Potential Psychology Podcast. While the team and I are busy behind the scenes prepping Season 8 of the show, we're taking a look back at some of our favourite episodes.

And this quote encapsulates the essence of today’s show….

‘Don’t waste a lot of time and money pushing kids in directions they don’t want to go. Instead, find out what weirdness they excel at and encourage them to do that. Then get out of the way’ - Seth Godin

My guest is Professor Lea Waters, one of the world’s leading experts on Positive Education, Positive Organizations and Strength-Based Parenting and Teaching. She’s a psychologist, a past president of the International Positive Psychology Association, and the Founding Director of Positive Psychology Centre at the University of Melbourne.

Lea is also author of The Strengths Switch: How the new science of strength-based parenting can help your child and your teen to flourish and the creator of The Strengths Switch online program, your online guide to becoming a strength-based parent.

Join me as I talk to Lea about:

Strength-based parenting - What are strengths and how do you identify them in your child?The benefits of strength-based parenting for parentsWhy we default to finding weakness rather than strength and how to counteract thisStopping the cycle of criticism and the benefits of a strength-based approach for teensHow to create harmony at home, andPractical strategies for building a strength-based approach in your family.

It's a refreshing, fun and positive conversation about parenting and kids!

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