Dr. Robyn Silverman

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895 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2017 last heard Dec 2021

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 061: Dr. Robyn Silverman Talks About Nurturing Character Strengths in Our Kids · 13 Jun 2017 podcast

Because when you do that, that's when you see their strengths.

And when you can see their strengths, that's when you know they become all that they can be.

When we see our kids in terms of their deficits, then they can do no right.

When we look at them and see, you know, their their kindness, their open-mindedness, their curiosity, whatever it might be that says, This is who I am, that's when, you know, they can do great things for the world.

That's when their gift starts to make sense because you are

the main contender in their lives.

You're their superhero, you're the one that they go to.

And when we can see them for that, it's really important.

But we you know, it's not to say it's not difficult, because you know, when we conceptualize what it means to be a parent.

And we think of the child that we're going to parent, we often picture something very specific.

We might picture

ourselves as a child, we might picture our brothers or sisters, we may picture our friends' kids and they are athletes or they are great musicians, they're amazing writers, they're, you know, really outgoing and can talk your ear off from the moment that they walk in.

Uh but that may not be your kid.

So I think it's not just, you know, baggage in terms of oh, I wish my kid was uh an athlete, but baggage in terms of who you thought you were gonna get.

Mm-hmm.

And then you have this child in front of you.

And it's not at all what you thought.

And and and so now, you know, you have to move forward.

And that doesn't mean, you know, I've

remember, you know, you know reading something of you know, th that idea that when you have a child in front of you who doesn't meet

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