Name: Are We Parenting Kids the Wrong Way Today? ft. Sim Chhabra
Uploaded: 2026-09-02T19:15:15.254Z
Duration: 1 h 2 min 57 s
Description: Are parents getting worse, or is social media simply exposing their hardest moments and teaching the rest of us to judge? From strict rules to gentle parenting, Sim Chhabra explains what actually helps kids build discipline, resilience, and emotional skills.

Are parents getting worse, or is social media simply exposing their hardest moments and teaching the rest of us to judge?

From strict rules to gentle parenting, Sim Chhabra explains what actually helps kids build discipline, resilience, and emotional skills.

In this episode, we break down:

Why social media can distort our perception of bad parenting and turn difficult family moments into public judgment
The five parenting styles, including authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, uninvolved, and gentle parenting
Why effective parenting requires flexibility instead of following one parenting style all the time
How boundaries, consistency, discipline, and communication should change as children grow
Why parenting teenagers requires a different approach to sleep, school, responsibility, and independence
How the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials shaped the parenting styles that followed them
The difference between generational trauma and generational learning, and why both matter
How culture, immigration, grandparents, technology, and family structure influence the way children are raised
Why empathy can completely change how we respond when we see a parent struggling in public
How parents can better understand a child's world through ecological systems theory

Hosts: Mike Wixson
Guests: Sim Chhabra

Sim Chhabra is a psychotherapist with Horizon Within. He joins Mike to explore how parenting evolves across childhood, adolescence, culture, and generations, and why there may be no single "correct" parenting style.

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