Gen (Jen) Muir
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514 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
Gen (Jen) Muir’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If someone falls off the trampoline and they're crying, we stop the game and we check on them.
And if we've pushed someone off the trampoline, we check on them.
So it's kind of like they're my four core rules.
If my kids are breaking one of those rules, every day of the week I'm stepping in to assist them because they need help with those ones.
They're kind of non-negotiables.
Everything else I'm kind of like, does it work for me?
Does it work for my child?
There's not a lot of evidence that forced apologies teach kids the underlying skills.
We're trying to build compassion and awareness of others, reading social cues.
So I work harder on the reading of social cues, checking if someone's okay.
It fires up less of that defensiveness that kids will, if we're there, you say, sorry, you're in the wrong, kid's in the corner.
Even if we get an apology, it's probably from a place of I just need to do this to get through them.
Whereas if we can foster this sense of no matter whether you, because kids are always good as well, right?
Kids are never meaning to be a bad person.
Even if my kid pushed the other kid off the trampoline, if I come from a place that looks like we've got two kids and things have gone a bit wrong here, but your brother's crying, let's check on him.
And if my kid can't model that for himself, I'm going to model it for him and believe that one day it will come.
It's funny.
My boys now do apologize.
So my kids now, my older boys, I notice they say, you okay?
And then they add, I'm sorry, if they think they've done the wrong thing.
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