Jessica Lahey
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877 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2017
last heard Apr 2021
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And we spent two and a half, three hours eating wings and drinking milk.
And then we ran out of milk and we started once they got hotter, we moved on to uh basically liquid vanilla ice cream, which really worked well because these things get really hot.
And I learned so much about
Not just facts about my kids' lives, but how they think.
And it showed them that I was willing to come to them.
to where they are and on their terms and with things that interest them.
And I wasn't asking about grades and I wasn't asking about like what college do you want to go to or, you know, that sort of stuff.
I was asking about stuff that really mattered.
Like a one of the questions was about which
of their grandparents, do they really see attributes in them?
How what grandparent did they think r they resemble the most?
And that led to like a half an hour long conversation about not just what the kids said, but what other people's perceptions were of that kid.
And it led to a conversation about what we admire in their grandparents.
It was really cool.
And so that idea of
We may feel like they're not listening, we may feel like they don't want to talk to us, we may feel like we're getting separated by age and distance and all the other stuff and and interests, but
There are ways to get there on their uh on their plane and talk to them about the things they care about.
And I remember distinctly a bunch of years ago when my
older son was first going into high school and there was this great panel.
I talk about this in Gift of Failure.
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