Change Your Brain Every Day How Children Are Made or Broken By Family Issues or Trauma
Apr 20, 2021
A lively look at the balance between love and logic in parenting. Practical tactics for letting children own schoolwork and responsibilities. How rescuing kids can create entitlement and harm long-term competence. The role of listening, confidence-building, and allowing kids to seek help on their own terms.
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Stop Rescuing Kids To Prevent Entitlement
- Do stop rescuing and doing tasks for your children to avoid creating entitlement and dependence.
- Tana used Love and Logic and stopped doing homework, lunches, and projects so her strong-willed child learned competence early.
Parental Prestige Drives Harmful Overinvolvement
- Insight prestige and parental identity can drive harmful overinvolvement in children's achievements.
- Daniel linked the college scandal to parents using kids as status, noting prestige literally comes from a word meaning deceit.
Let Children Fail Small To Build Resilience
- Do let children experience small failures early so they build competence and resilience.
- Tana stopped taking forgotten sweaters, lunches, and projects to let second graders face consequences safely.