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Raise | Of the 272 Emotions, Most Parents Only Know 12 (w/ D. Earl Johnston)
Category: Health
Duration: 00:49:41
Publish Date: 2026-04-20 10:30:00
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What if most of what your kids are learning about emotions isn't coming from what you say — it's coming from what they watch you do?

In this first episode of our new Raise series, we explore Doug Earl Johnston's groundbreaking book Choosing Emotions — now the single most comprehensive reference on human emotions in the English language — and what it means to parent as someone who chooses their responses rather than defaulting to them.

Doug walks us through why the average adult operates with a vocabulary of 8-12 emotions when hundreds exist, and how precision with language is the key to naming — and taming — the feelings that derail us. The key takeaway: the vocabulary we give our kids now is the vocabulary they'll reach for when life gets hard.
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