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Raising Grit: Helping Your Kid Handle the Hard Stuff
Want to help your kids develop grit and resilience?
In this episode of The Campfire Guide to Parenting, Mike McDonell sits down with Michael Blasdell to talk about what grit really looks like in kids, and how parents can help build it without stepping in too fast or clearing every obstacle out of the way.
They unpack how kids learn resilience through everyday challenges like friendship drama, middle school social pressure, school struggles, and moments of failure. The conversation covers when parents should step in versus step back, how modeling accountability and apologies matters, and why…
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