Good Inside with Dr. BeckyYour Kid Is Already Creative: What Parents Get Wrong About Imagination | Austin Kleon & Dr. Becky
Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- June 16, 2026
- Duration
- 34m
- Channel
- Good Inside with Dr. Becky
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
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 it. The imagination, the playfulness, the willingness to not-know — it's all there. The question isn't how to give it to them. It's how to stop blocking it. And maybe, while we're here, how to get a little of it back ourselves. Dr. Becky and Austin talk about what creativity actually needs to thrive (not a workshop), what so-called "problem kids" and great artists have in common, why your kid's obsession with garage doors is not a problem, the link between play and depression, the game that got Austin through the pandemic, and the teeth-brushing song Becky invented entirely by accident. Read Dr. Becky’s ideas for how to be a playful parent when you don’t feel like playing: https://www.goodinside.com/blog/how-to-be-a-playful-parent-when-you-dont-feel-like-playing/ Thank you to our partners for making this episode possible:
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SPEAKERS
Austin Kleon
guestAuthor and artist known for books on creativity and making/stealing like an artist.
Dr. Becky
hostClinical psychologist and parenting expert; host of the Good Inside podcast.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Good Inside with Dr. Becky, featuring Austin Kleon and Dr. Becky, Your Kid Is Already Creative: What Parents Get Wrong About Imagination | Austin Kleon & Dr. Becky explores kids already have creativity; parents must protect play’s conditions gently The conversation argues that kids don’t need creativity “taught” to them; adults mainly need to stop obstructing and instead create conditions—time, space, materials, and permission—for imagination to surface.
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