Brendan Mahan

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611 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2020 last heard Sep 2020

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And climbing it.

Looks a lot like staring at it.

And that's what makes this tricky from the outside for mom and dad to be observing their kid, for example.

Or for mom to be observing dad or dad to be observing mom.

I might look like I'm staring at the wall because I'm sitting there with all of my papers out and my binder or whatever or my my iPad on.

But I'm not doing anything.

So it looks like I'm staring at it.

When really what I'm doing is all of this internal emotional work.

to get started on the task.

And it's hard to tell, are they

Getting started or are they

Staring.

One way that we can tell that they're getting started is when your kid takes forever to get their binders out of their backpack.

I don't know if you've experienced this.

But when it's like they have to do homework and it takes them twenty minutes to get the binders out.

They're making this slow, gradual forward momentum towards the homework, but it's really slow, much slower than it needs to be.

That's because there's emotional work happening that we can't see.

And getting the binder out of the backpack for 20 minutes is the physical manifestation of that emotional work.

And we can speed that up by talking to them about it.

If our kids know what the wall of awful is, 'cause they've watched those videos or heard this podcast.

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