Amanda Morin

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 120a: Back to School Special with Understood's Amanda Morin · 9 Aug 2024 podcast

Ideally, you've already started building some of that scaffolding and you have a good team around your child who's willing to let them make mistakes because that's huge that, you know, you talked about the gift of failure and that's so huge.

I love that book, by the way, because it teaches that idea that the failure is an okay thing.

Making mistakes is okay.

But what happens when you make those mistakes, you prop yourself back up and you're off to a good start.

So I think one of the pieces of scaffolding is building the people who are going to monitor that, right?

Making sure that there's somebody who's keeping track.

I'm never really a fan of just dropping a kid in a situation and letting them figure it out.

But I'm totally a fan of providing a clear idea of what the expectations may be in any given situation, stepping back and not jumping in before they need help to meet those expectations.

So I don't think we're setting kids up to fail, just that you can build the scaffolding

Show your child how to navigate it and stand back from a distance, watching them scale it.

You know, build the systems and then give them control over time.

So I'm trying to think of an example.

So if my struggle is whether or not do I remind my child to do his homework or do I trust that he'll do it or not do it and then have to deal with the consequences of it, it may be a little bit of both.

At the beginning of the year, maybe we set up a homework routine that I remind him about and then slowly pull back from.

And, you know, unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your point of view, at some point

we need to trust that our kids are strong enough to manage the consequences of their own actions, but they need to know what those consequences are going to be.

And I think that's where scaffolding comes in is making sure they know the expectations and what the consequences are.

And then I think having faith that we as parents are giving them the tools to navigate life.

So some of it's about building scaffolding for your child and some of it's about trusting yourself.

And I think that they're, they go,

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