A warm welcome to this fortnight’s guest: Dr Tara Porter is a highly respected clinical psychologist who has been working with young people and their families for over 25 years, both in the NHS and in private practice. 

Tara is also a well-known voice on adolescent mental health, thanks to her widely shared writing, including her bestselling debut book You Don’t Understand Me, which we met to discuss back in 2022. 

She’s back with another brilliant new book, Good Enough: A Framework for Modern Parenting, described by Gabby Logan ‘a really useful guide - one of those books everyone should have on their shelf’. It’s a refreshingly honest and compassionate guide for parents navigating the emotional ups and downs of raising children in an increasingly complex world.

This episode explores

• the myths of perfect parenting
• what ‘good enough parenting’ looks like in practice
• how to encourage and nurture healthy relationships with our children
• current trends in child and adolescent mental health
• how avoid the parent guilt
• why it’s good for our kids to see us as imperfect parents
• how to support our kids’ autonomy and emotional wellbeing — all while preserving our own
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You can buy Dr Porter’s book Good Enough: A Framework for Modern Parenting here: https://lnk.to/GoodEnough

She’s on instagram here: @drtaraporterpsychologist

And you can visit her web page here: https://www.taraporterpsychologist.com/

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