Chris Balme
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238 appearances
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first heard Mar 2023
last heard Mar 2023
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But these experiences, if it's the kind of thing like I remember the time that I mediated a conflict between friends, that might stick with you.
Maybe that's the bar.
Is it worth remembering positively twenty or thirty years later?
Yeah.
I think when your kids were younger, thinking of toddler years, if you didn't understand them developmentally, it would be the weirdest, most bewildering thing ever.
Why are they suddenly acting this way or changing so dramatically?
Like we depend on understanding those stages to make sense of it all and not go crazy.
So
I think my number one suggestion for middle school parents is to have that same view that we have to understand what's going on developmentally.
And in the book, I talk about these three kind of core developmental drives, the drive for authentic identity, for connection, and for contribution.
And if you can really see their actions in that light and look for how they're starting to work toward those, help them.
work toward those, then you're helping them do their job and think their behavior will make more sense, they will be more open to you.
And it I think it'll be a better adventure.
Thank you.
Yeah, you can find me on Instagram, just my name, Chris Baum, or on my website, ChrisBaum dot com, and I have a newsletter and some other things to look at there as well.
Thanks so much, Debbie.
This was really fun and I hope we can change the story back to our first point about what we think middle school really is.
So thanks again.
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