Pediatrician Dr. Whitney Casares shares the advice from a therapist that changed how she makes decisions as a parent: turn one mirror in. She also explains why social media has made parenting harder, how the algorithm rewards fear, and what she lets slide as a doctor, author, and mom of two.
Dr. Casares is a board-certified pediatrician practicing in Portland, Oregon, and the founder of Modern Mommy Doc. She started out as a journalism major who dreamed of being the next Sanjay Gupta, then turned the Facebook posts she wrote for parents into books with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her newest book is Raising Body-Confident Kids.
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Website: https://modernmommydoc.com
Raising Body-Confident Kids: https://www.raisingbodyconfidentkids.com/books
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:35 From journalism to pediatrics
3:21 Why she wrote about body confidence
7:13 Why doctors belong on social media
9:14 How she handles doing it all
12:19 Why kids always want mom
16:34 How Modern Mommy Doc started
18:40 Writing without a filter
21:31 Authenticity over follower counts
25:53 How social media made parenting harder
26:54 A day in her life
32:19 Logging off at school pickup
40:56 Jealousy and why all ships rise
46:45 Her best advice: turn the mirrors in
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