Katherine Reynolds Lewis
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first heard Jun 2018
last heard Jun 2018
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And I guess the way that I would I the way that I see it is that our our children just aren't learning the normal developmental stages that they need the way that they used to.
So kids used to learn social emotional skills through play, through managing their own time, through all the things that have sort of disappeared from our modern society.
And it's entirely possible that there's something else going on, some other environmental factor that's contributing to the rise in anxiety and depression, ADHD, behavioral issues and developmental challenges that kids are facing.
But we're sort of here in the trenches and we have to get through our days.
So the more that we look at a kid acting up as
showing us that there's something needed, it just puts us in the mindset of problem solving and being capable instead of feeling like, oh no, now my day is ruined and the plans that I had for, you know, getting through these activities or managing our household routine are disrupted.
So for me it's been very helpful just to try to attack those kinds of situations with enthusiasm instead of despair.
And and I think that's often what we go to when our kid is acting up is we think, Oh, I did something wrong, or I didn't prepare for this moment, or I should have known this was gonna happen.
And so we have that sense of failure that we've somehow
caused it or that we're to blame for not preventing it.
And those are just not helpful emotions.
They're not gonna make us stronger in the moment at dealing with our child.
It's not gonna give us that resilience or if sense of confidence that we need to lead our children through a difficult moment.
And that's that's one of the things that I've found at least that is is much more helpful.
So
Right, absolutely.
And you know, for parents who have very young children, you're sort of in the p perfect position to be more hands off in those early years and let kids experience some bumps and bruises and make choices they regret because then they'll be much better positioned to handle difficulty in, you know, early childhood and teen years and
Um, you know, one of the challenges I think parents do face now is because that's no longer our model, we do have to be more hands on at times in supporting our kids.
And it's hard.
There's there's a little bit of tension there.
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