Misty Copeland grew up sleeping on a motel floor with five siblings, unsure where the next meal was coming from. At 13, she walked into her first ballet class and felt something she'd never felt before: safe. Dr. Becky talks with the first Black woman to become a principal dancer at American Ballet

Dr. Becky, 09/08/2026

We all know too much screen time isn’t good for kids—and our instinct as parents is to protect them from it. But when fear shapes how we manage screens at home, it can quickly turn into shame the moment they pick one up.In today’s world, where screens are woven into so much of daily life, the real c

Dr. Becky, 09/01/2026

Twelve weeks of parental leave. Then you're back at your desk, wondering why it feels so hard.Today we’re posting an episode from Rattled, our podcast for parents of newborns and babies, because it’s about something everybody experiences. It’s the final part of our three-part series with Care.com on

Dr. Becky, 08/25/2026

If you’ve yelled at your kid, you’re not a bad parent. You’re a good parent with an overwhelmed nervous system. In today’s revisit from the Good Inside archives, Dr. Becky breaks down the science behind yelling, snapping, and shutting down. She explains why our bodies react before our brains can cat

Dr. Becky, 08/18/2026

Your kid hits. Melts down the second you leave the house. Argues about everything, all day, every single day. You've tried the time-outs, the consequences, the calm-down corner. Nothing works. Why are we always at that cliff?Dr. Becky spent two hours in a Reddit thread literally called "Nothing Work

Dr. Becky, 08/11/2026

What does depression look like? It’s not always… sadness. It can be anger. Irritability. Picking fights. Checking out. Taking risks that don't make sense. It can look, to everyone around you — including you — like a character problem, not a medical condition.Christopher Choukalas is an ICU physician

Dr. Becky, 08/04/2026

What happens when two become three, or four, or five? Who is responsible for the needs and wants of a couple when days are filled with playdates, pick-ups, and meal preps? Nights lack the erotic energy that couples need not only to survive but to thrive. This week, Dr. Becky consults with the renown

Dr. Becky, 07/28/2026

Belle Burden was, by her own account, the good girl. Quiet, compliant, the kid who wrote her own book report and did her homework on Friday afternoons. Then one night in the second week of the 2020 lockdown, a stranger left a voicemail: your husband is having an affair with my wife. By 6 a.m. her 20

Dr. Becky, 07/21/2026

There's a lot of noise about what AI will do to jobs. What will it do to one of the most important jobs in the world: parenting? Dr. Dana Suskind is a pediatric cochlear implant surgeon and neuroscientist who has spent her career on how young brains get built. In this conversation, she and Dr. Becky

Dr. Dana Suskind, 07/14/2026

When a woman becomes a mother, her brain physically reorganizes around the baby. We've known this for a while. What we didn't know (until recently) is that the same thing happens to dads.Dr. Darby Saxbe is a neuroscientist and psychologist at USC, and one of the only researchers in the world scannin

Dr. Becky, 07/07/2026

“If I don’t push my kid, they’ll waste their potential.” A lot of us believe this. But is it true?Myleik Teele joins Dr. Becky to work through a question that haunts every ambitious parent. What unfolds is an honest look at whose anxiety is actually running the show — and whether the drive we're try

Dr. Becky, 06/30/2026

Dr. Cassidy Freitas grew up watching her mom — a Hispanic judge who fought her way into white male spaces with no margin for error — come home carrying that same no-error version of herself. Her dad pushed straight A's as the path to financial safety. She absorbed all of it.And then she became a mom

Dr. Becky, 06/23/2026

Parents are being sold creativity like it's a subscription box. Workshops, kits, frameworks, scripts: the message being that your kid needs more imagination and it's your job to install it. Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist and Don't Call It Art, has a different take: your kid already has

Dr. Becky, 06/16/2026

You and your partner love your kids. So why does it sometimes feel like you're parenting in completely different worlds?In this listener-favorite episode from the Good Inside archives, Dr. Becky talks with a mom named Carmella who feels stuck between two parenting styles: she's the one holding the r

Dr. Becky, 06/09/2026

AI is getting better at sounding human. Better at conversation. Better at reassurance. Better at knowing exactly what we want to hear.So what happens when our kids start building relationships with machines designed to remove friction?In this conversation, Dr. Becky talks with former Wall Street Jou

Dr. Becky, 06/02/2026

After kids, a lot of couples assume intimacy is supposed to disappear. You’re exhausted, touched-out, overwhelmed by logistics, carrying invisible mental load — and somewhere along the way, sex can start to feel complicated, distant, or impossible to even talk about.But what if the story is more nua

Dr. Becky, 05/26/2026

Dr. Becky recently had a run-in with a ... dubious ... purveyor of NeeDohs, the outrageously popular, notoriously hard-to-find squishy toys. And it made her think twice about why this craze has taken over our homes in the first place. So she did what any reasonable person would do: she recorded an e

Dr. Becky, 05/23/2026

Dr. Lindsay C. Gibson has helped millions of readers understand the lasting impact of emotionally immature parents. In this conversation, she joins Dr. Becky to explore the other side of the equation: how we raise emotionally mature kids.They discuss why kids’ behavior can feel so activating, the di

Lindsay C. Gibson, 05/19/2026

For generations, fathers were taught that their job was simple: protect, provide, preside.But what happens when those old rules no longer fit?In this conversation, Dr. Becky talks with writer and father Kevin Maguire ("The New Fatherhood") about the emotional transformation happening inside modern f

Dr. Becky, 05/12/2026

You’ve probably said it—or heard it:“Nobody knows what they’re doing.”It’s meant to comfort us as parents. And sometimes it does. But… is it actually true?In this episode of our ongoing Is It True? series, Dr. Becky and Myleik Teele take a closer look at this belief—and what might be more helpful t

Dr. Becky, 05/05/2026

If you’re pregnant… just had a baby… or love someone who is about to become a parent… this episode is for you!This is a preview of Rattled—a brand-new podcast from Good Inside, created for those early weeks and months of parenthood, when everything feels new, intense, and a little disorienting.Each

Dr. Becky, 04/28/2026

People will tell you: a baby changes everything. What no one tells you is how much you change — and how hard it is to love yourself when you don't quite recognize yourself anymore.In this conversation, Dr. Becky sits down with poet and author Cleo Wade (Remember Love) to talk about what it actually

Dr. Becky, 04/21/2026

We all grow up playing a role in our family — the responsible one, the easy one, the funny one. For Kenan Thompson, that role started early. In this episode of How We’re Raised, Dr. Becky talks with Kenan about how becoming “the funny one” shaped the way he connects with people — and what it looks l

Dr. Becky, 04/14/2026

Lots of us think screen time is a discipline problem.“My kid just wants more.”“They don’t know when to stop.”“I need to set better limits.”But what if that’s not actually what’s going on?In this episode, Dr. Becky talks with science journalist Michaeleen Doucleff, author of Dopamine Kids, about the

Dr. Becky, 04/07/2026