Family 360 Podcast

Family 360 Podcast


Ep. 83b – Maggie Dent – Do Parents Unintentionally Promote People Pleasing?

February 14, 2023

‘People pleasing sounds like a positive pursuit,’ thought the parent who wrote in today’s question. It’s not! People-pleasing involves dishonoring yourself to honor someone else. Maggie Dent suggests generations of patriarchy have pushed women toward people pleasing.

She addresses this and more as she answers this great question about people pleasing and how parents unintentionally encourage their children to ‘make nice’.