Abigail Gewirtz
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391 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2020
last heard Jun 2020
Abigail Gewirtz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, we you know, never mind we don't get an education in parenting.
We don't have to pass any test to become a parent, we don't have to get any license.
I have to renew my dog license every year.
But I never I never got a license to be a parent.
But also in our society we rarely talk about feelings.
I think in schools they're doing a better job with social and emotional learning curricula.
But it's not something I think comes naturally to most of us.
And so we tend to deal with emotions in a variety of different ways, often depending on, you know, who we are and how we've been brought up.
So um we certainly have parents who really talk about kids' feelings, but we also have parents who unknowingly, you know, they say, There, there, don't worry, there's nothing to worry about.
And the message that gives to kids is
My emotions aren't important signals.
Or their things to be sort of brushed under the carpet?
And what we know from the work of John Gottman and Lynn Katz and other really wonderful researchers, uh Nancy Eisenberg, is that
When we as parents ignore, dismiss or worse punish emotions, you know, when we say
Don't cry, big boys, don't cry.
Um and those kinds of things, we send messages to kids that cause them to try and bury their emotions and that puts them at higher risk for things like um depression, d feelings of depression and anxiety and things like that.
Um so emotions are really important to pay attention to.
So
Thanks, Debbie, for pointing that out.
Really, I sort of suggest that parents ask themselves three questions.
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