Katherine Reynolds Lewis
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232 appearances
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first heard Jun 2018
last heard Jun 2018
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That may not always feel fair that we have to do that, but it is often the only path that we have to try to take whatever allyship we can get in the school building and and build on that.
And um one great thing that I've seen some parents do is is start a book group with whoever in the in the building is sympathetic that maybe read, you know, my book, of course, The Good News About Bad Behavior or read The Explosive Child or Lost at School or another book where you're not coming in to educate them, but you're relying on an expert or a book to say, uh, oh, these are some ideas that we should consider.
in how our kids are being handled in the in the school.
problems down the road.
Oh, what a great question.
Yeah, so this is the National Institutes of Mental Health study and it was of all children, so um kids up to age eighteen w with that was that statistic.
I think that, you know, using this model that's in my book of connection, communication, and capability building is our best defense, where we are steadily trying to build our children's social and emotional skills and their executive function.
And I sometimes joke, it's like I have to be my kids' therapist and executive function coach because you're just sort of painstakingly every opportunity you get.
at trying to nudge them further along that path.
And when we're doing that, we are helping our kids to avoid um challenges in the future.
And one of the models in my book.
The PAX Good Behavior Game, which is used in classes, has been shown to reduce symptoms of ADHD and ODD and to actually sometimes bring kids into the typical range who might have been on the borderline or have a you know have a diagnosis.
So it can be very powerful.
And the other really important finding in my book was how devastating criticism can be to children.
So the research on parental criticism is really scary.
Um and it goes back in the behavioral science, um, observational research is decades old that people who have some kind of um mental illness or psychiatric condition
are more susceptible to parental criticism and that when they have recovered and they're in a steady state, they can relapse much more easily when they're exposed to a lot of parental criticism.
So that's another really strong argument that compassion and encouragement is the tool that will help our kids.
And the more we can try not to correct and criticize and point out all of their mistakes
the the better position they'll be for mental health.
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