Abigail Gewirtz
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391 appearances
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first heard Jun 2020
last heard Jun 2020
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We're uh more able to respond to our kids um
strong negative emotions or
you know, intense urgency around an issue that's causing them distress, for example.
Right.
So our ultimate goal would be to help our children ultimately.
So maybe this is a mission and not a goal, but
Ultimately to help our children grow up, to be engaged, to
Confident and compassionate human beings.
And of course that's a massive, really a big goal and of course that can be broken down into multiple small steps.
The reason I mention it is because
The small steps that we need to take in every individual essential conversation that's the term I use for these
conversations about difficult issues uh like climate change or violence or
Соціальed соціально.
is that we need to be able to understand how this issue affects us parents.
Because what we want to do in this conversation is listen to our children and our children's concerns and not have them be clouded by our own worries and our own preoccupations with the issue.
So the first thing we need to be able to do is
So r regulate, respond to our own emotions about the issue so that when we're sitting with our kids we're truly able to hear them.
to listen to them, to hear what are truly their concerns, which aren't necessarily the things that we think they're worried about, and then to respond to those concerns in a way that empowers our kids.
So for example, using a problem solving process whereby
Together we would brainstorm solutions for whatever the issue is, whether it is your child's
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