William Stixrud
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322 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard Jul 2021
William Stixrud’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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With if if the mom is given a stressful task.
If the mother touches the baby, th then it's even worse.
Yeah.
In in 1964, Rudolf Dreikers wrote the book Children the Challenge.
And there's a chapter in it called Don't Pity Them.
And the idea is that what we want to convey to our kids is a courageous attitude towards life.
You know, and and you know, self pity is is never very very attractive for anybody.
And the idea if we don't don't want kids to feel sorry for themselves, then then ideally we work at not feeling sorry for them.
Uh the that that's the basic rationale and and much easier said than done.
But w when when I read that, and and I I you know, I see kids who are really in families who have really very s very serious challenges, I see kids who will who will who will never be independent.
And the idea is that we what we want to do is we want to remember that that that no matter what the situation is, our our our job is to love them and support them.
And that that that if we if we can can do the kind of metal work not to feel sorry for them.
It helps them to not feel sorry for themselves.
Dad, do you want to add on, buddy?
Yeah.
In in the book, we talk about um this new space program.
It's an acronym, uh the program out of Yale for supporting uh parents who who have anxious kids.
And well, and what one of the one of the things that parents are encouraged to do is is is to to develop these supportive statements and this and it which which involves empathy and the expression of confidence.
So you say to a kid, I I know that you're really anxious about this, and I know that you're
you're really upset about this and I'm a hundred percent confident you can handle it.
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