Your Parenting Mojo - Respectful, Research-based Parenting Ideas To Help Kids Thrive

A few weeks ago https://yourparentingmojo.com/captivate-podcast/mindovermoney/ (we talked with Dr. Brad Klontz) about the 'money scripts' that we pass on to our children - perhaps unintentionally - if we fail to examine these and make conscious decisions about the messages we want to convey about money to our children. Today we continue our series on the intersection of parenting and money with a conversation with Dr. Allison Pugh, whose doctoral dissertation (and subsequent book, https://amzn.to/2xeSqMt (Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture)) remain seminal works in this field even a decade after their publication. In this interview, we take the position that advertising to children is happening - so what do we do with that? How do children make meaning out of the messages sent to them through our consumerist culture? How do parents attempt to resist the effects of this culture, and how successful are they? In our next episode in this series we'll dig more deeply into the