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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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.
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 an athlete.
But baggage in terms of who you thought you were going to get.
And then you have this child in front of you and it's not at all what you thought.
And so now, you know, you have to move forward.
And that doesn't mean, you know, I remember, you know.
Reading something of, you know, that idea that when you have a child in front of you who doesn't meet what you thought it was going to be, that doesn't mean it's going to be a bad thing.
Right.
It's it just means that it's it's going to be different and different can be really good.
Yes, exactly.
It's a journey.
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