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Becky Kennedy: Good Inside (2022, HarperCollins Publishers) 4 stars

Dr. Becky Kennedy, wildly popular parenting expert and creator of @drbeckyatgoodinside, shares her groundbreaking approach …

mostly nodded along

4 stars

If you agree with her view of human relationships - the first section is 'principles', that parenting is relationship building and repairing, that we're good, that happiness depends on connection and regulating fear and distress first, that behavior reveals our struggles not defines us, that shame and lies and control are all self-defeating ways to relate - then the specific advice in the second section gets fairly repetitive. Solid overlap with Whole Brain Child and Montessori-esque self-will-development. Pretty narrowly focused on parent-child and mostly younger to school age kids.