How to build your kid's confidence — by leaving them alone (w/ Lenore Skenazy)

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  You're listening to How To Be A Better Human.

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  I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

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  Let me tell you a quick story about cars.

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  Growing up, my family did not own a car.

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  We took public transportation.

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  So cars always felt foreign and strange and a little bit dangerous to me.

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  In my life now, I do have a car, but I know almost nothing about maintenance.

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  And so when I took my car into Ross, my mechanic,

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  who has also now become my friend, I asked him to help me change the car air filter.

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  And rather than just charge me for the job, Roz had me sit down and watch him do it.

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  And I saw how extremely simple this is.

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  You literally just open one compartment, slide the old filter out and slide the new filter in.

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  It couldn't be simpler.

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  So then the next time I needed to change the air filter, I did it myself.

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  And I felt so proud.

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  Genuinely, it made my day that I could now change a car air filter all on my own.

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  And that experience is what today's guest, Lenore Scanesi, wants all kids to have.

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  Not literally changing the air filter on my old Toyota Camry,

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  but the experience of being given independence and allowed to do things that maybe seem a little bit dangerous or outside of their comfort zone.

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  Lenore argues that modern parenting has become so focused on safety that we are depriving kids of the chance to learn themselves and causing a whole host of other issues.

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