David Thomas, LMSW

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358 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Apr

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A great barometer would be how often does your child say yes?

I can.

I'll try.

I will versus I won't.

I don't.

I don't know how.

I had a girl who it's actually our opening statement of the book, a girl that I was counseling who said she was so stuck.

And I'm not a great therapist if someone is stuck because I really want kids to move.

And I kept kind of trying to gently push and gently push and gently push.

And she figured out what I was doing.

And eventually she said to me, I don't want to grow.

I just want to be understood.

That to me is a child who probably is capable.

I think all kids are capable.

They're just not necessarily ready or they feel like whatever is going on with them is too big.

Their feelings are in charge of them rather than them being in charge of their feelings.

Yes.

And kids learn that they're capable by experience.

It's not that they feel confident and then step into whatever is going to create the capability.

It's that they just go ahead and step in and then the confidence comes.

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