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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Um, and feel so helpless.
And the reality is that there are many things that we can't do anything about, but there are there's always something that we can do.
And I think the power of instilling hope is that you
Um, show that wherever you are there is always something.
However small it is that can be done.
But the tricky thing is making a space for the emotions and not doing what as parents I think often we have the instinct to do, which is saying, There, there, things are gonna be looking up or it's not so bad as you think.
Um, so i it's a tricky it's a tricky balance, Debbie.
A hundred percent.
So teenagers can tolerate more of the
This is really tricky and they understand and you can't pull the wool over their eyes.
Um, they wanna talk about existential questions and they can tolerate
Um they can understand more.
Um, but whereas with three to five year olds, um, you're gonna have a much more concrete conversation.
We can't see grandma.
Ah, because she
She is one of many people or some people who really can get very sick from the coronavirus and so we don't want to give it to her by accident.
Um but let's think about some of the things that we can do for grandma, right?
So you've had this conversation, whereas with 15 year olds, of course it's
Far more nuanced and complex.
So as parents, and it's not just parents in the it's the world.
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