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288: 5 Reasons Why You Should Stop Trying to Control Your Kid, with Penny Williams · Beautifully Complex

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  Speaker 1: It is a very powerful thing for kids to experience
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  Speaker 1: successfully doing something independently, and that cannot happen if we
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  Speaker 1: are just controlling them. Welcome to the Beautifully Complex podcast,
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  Speaker 1: where I share insights and strategies on parenting neurodivergent kids
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  Speaker 1: straight from the trenches. I'm your host, Penny Williams. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a parenting coach, author and mindset mama, honored to guide
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  Speaker 1: you on the journey of raising your a typical kid.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get started. Hi, friends, Welcome back to Beautifully Complex.
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  Speaker 1: In this episode today, I want to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about control, controlling your parenting, controlling your kids. We have
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  Speaker 1: this idea in our culture that as parents, our job
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  Speaker 1: is to control our children, and I am here today
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  Speaker 1: to argue that that is not the case at all,
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  Speaker 1: and that we are actually holding our kids back when
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  Speaker 1: we focus on controlling them. Now, sometimes parents will say
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  Speaker 1: to me, while if I don't control my kid, I
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  Speaker 1: can't protect my kid. And I will argue with you
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  Speaker 1: on that point, Yes you can, because your job is
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  Speaker 1: not to protect them from everything in the world. They
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  Speaker 1: still need to make mistakes, they need to do hard things,
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  Speaker 1: They need to struggle sometimes in order to learn and grow. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: what you're really saying is that you want to be
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  Speaker 1: able to keep your kid safe, and you can keep
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  Speaker 1: your kids safe and also relinquish a great deal of
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  Speaker 1: your parental control over them. So I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you about these five different reasons why trying to
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  Speaker 1: control our kids is not the best approach, both for
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  Speaker 1: us and for our kids and really for the world
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  Speaker 1: in general. If my idealism we'll show through a little
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  Speaker 1: bit here, So we're going to talk about releasing control
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  Speaker 1: to foster autonomy, to help kids learn critical thinking skills
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  Speaker 1: and problem solving skills, and to have more authentic connections
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  Speaker 1: and a better relationship with our kids. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: shift from compliance based parenting, which is very much control based,
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  Speaker 1: to connect based parenting, because connection is everything. If our
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  Speaker 1: nervous system is regulated, we feel connected. If we do
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  Speaker 1: not feel connected, our nervous system is disregulated. And when
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  Speaker 1: our nervous system is disregulated, things become less doable. We
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  Speaker 1: don't feel good, Behaviors that are unwanted tend to happen.
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  Speaker 1: We let our emotions control our decisions. All of those
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  Speaker 1: things happen with a lack of connection, and so that
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  Speaker 1: relationship with your kid has to really govern all of
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  Speaker 1: your parenting. And I know I remember back in the
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  Speaker 1: day when I was a kid, parents would say, my
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  Speaker 1: job is not to be your friend, my job is
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  Speaker 1: to be your parent. And that is sort of true.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also true that it's okay to be a
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  Speaker 1: friend to your kids. It's okay for your kid to
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  Speaker 1: feel like you are their friend. That is the mark
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  Speaker 1: of a great relationship. So don't worry about making sure
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  Speaker 1: that you have this authoritarian relationship with your kid, because
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  Speaker 1: that is actually holding you back. So let's jump into
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  Speaker 1: that first reason why you should stop trying to control
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  Speaker 1: your kids, and that is that strong parent child relationship
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  Speaker 1: relationships are built on mutual respect and empathy, and when
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  Speaker 1: they are built on those things, they have a lasting
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  Speaker 1: positive impact. When you have a good relationship with your kid,
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  Speaker 1: that connection is coregulating. It helps them to be regulated.
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  Speaker 1: That connection also means that your child is going to
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  Speaker 1: come to you when they need help rather than avoid you.
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  Speaker 1: There are so many benefits of fostering a really good
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  Speaker 1: relationship with your kids, and you should prioritize that relationship
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  Speaker 1: above just about everything else, above getting homework done, above,
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  Speaker 1: social commitments, above all those things that they tell us
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  Speaker 1: are important. Getting your kid to school. We see so
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  Speaker 1: many families struggling with school avoidance and refusal. Now, your
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  Speaker 1: relationship with your kid matters more than if they go
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  Speaker 1: to school or not that day. I know that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem like a factual statement, but I promise you it is.
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  Speaker 1: That relationship is crucial. When you are trying to control
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  Speaker 1: your kid, they feel bad. They just feel bad. They're
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  Speaker 1: not going to want to come to you. They're not
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  Speaker 1: going to want to open up emotionally. They will feel
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  Speaker 1: like they are only going to be judged, and then
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  Speaker 1: you are going to try to control that outcome. When
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  Speaker 1: you try to control your child, it often leads to
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  Speaker 1: distance and frustration. They will put distance between you and them,
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  Speaker 1: and you will get frustrated. They will get frustrated. This
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  Speaker 1: mutual frustration happens so often. Right we find ourselves co
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  Speaker 1: escalating when our kids have big emotions and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: It is a mutual frustration. But we are the adult
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  Speaker 1: and we have the skills in the practice to come
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  Speaker 1: into those situations by offering coregulation, by dealing with our
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  Speaker 1: own frustration. I'm not saying that you shouldn't be frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that you have the ability more than
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  Speaker 1: your child, to cope with that frustration and to problem
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  Speaker 1: solve and to come to the situation without just letting
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  Speaker 1: that emotion control what you do and what you say
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  Speaker 1: and you say it. There are things that you can
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  Speaker 1: do to strengthen that parent child relationship, like active listening,
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  Speaker 1: reflective listening, being fully present. We talk all the time
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  Speaker 1: about time in special time, having time together on a regular,
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  Speaker 1: consistent basis where you are fully present. You're not looking
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  Speaker 1: at your phone, you're not answering a parenting question from
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  Speaker 1: your significant other down the hall, you're not watching TV
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  Speaker 1: in the background or anything like that. You're fully fully
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  Speaker 1: present and then creating open lines of communication. This is
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  Speaker 1: what you need to help your child be the best
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  Speaker 1: that they can be, and it's what you need to
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  Speaker 1: be the best parent that you can be as well.
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  Speaker 1: Our second reason for stopping the need for control of
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  Speaker 1: our children is one of my favorite phrases that I
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  Speaker 1: learned from Greg Santucci, connection over compliance. When we are
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  Speaker 1: having a hard time with our kid because they are
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  Speaker 1: having a hard time, big emotions, a tensity, volatility, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it might be, the most helpful effective way to approach
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  Speaker 1: that hard time is by leaning into connection rather than compliance.
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  Speaker 1: Compliance is a short term solution to a problem. It
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  Speaker 1: is a band aid. It does not last. And honestly,
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  Speaker 1: when we are just looking for compliance, we are robbing
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  Speaker 1: our kids of the ability to grow, to be autonomous,
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  Speaker 1: to learn skills, to feel like they matter in the world.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big deal. So we want to really focus
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  Speaker 1: on connection over compliance. If you've asked your kid to
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  Speaker 1: do something and they are himming and hawing, or they
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  Speaker 1: are refusing whatever it might be, rather than pressuring them
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  Speaker 1: to comply, ask yourself how you can come into that
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  Speaker 1: situation building connection instead. One example could be cleaning your room.
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  Speaker 1: Your child needs to clean their room, You've asked them
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  Speaker 1: many times, is not getting done. You could threaten, you
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  Speaker 1: could you know, remind them of a particular punishment or
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  Speaker 1: consequence that might be coming down the pike. You could
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  Speaker 1: try to force compliance, or you could try to connect
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  Speaker 1: with your kid and help them because they are not
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  Speaker 1: avoiding cleaning their room just because I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: clean their room. That is true, but most kids want
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  Speaker 1: to do well, and so what's happening is there's some
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  Speaker 1: barrier getting in the way. So what if you just
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  Speaker 1: walked in and said, hey, today we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: all the dirty clothes off of your floor and into
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  Speaker 1: the laundry room. I'm going to help you, and you
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  Speaker 1: just bend over and you start doing it. You start
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  Speaker 1: picking those dirty clothes up off of the floor. The
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  Speaker 1: likelihood is that your kid is going to start doing
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  Speaker 1: it with You can't say one hundred percent of the time,
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  Speaker 1: but you are offering coregulation and you are sending the
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  Speaker 1: message that you see them, you get it, you understand
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  Speaker 1: it's hard for them, and you want to help. So again,
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  Speaker 1: compliance can create a short term solution. You can say
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  Speaker 1: no electronics next week if you don't clean this room
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  Speaker 1: right now. If electronics are your child's currency, if they
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  Speaker 1: are motivating, then they may do whatever they need to
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  Speaker 1: do to try to get that room cleaned up for you.
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  Speaker 1: But if you work on connecting, then there are no
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  Speaker 1: power struggles anymore, there's no resentment anymore. If you work
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  Speaker 1: on helping, the same outcomes are true. When you build
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  Speaker 1: the connection with your kid, it fosters trust, which helps
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  Speaker 1: them self regulate because they feel safer and more secure.
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  Speaker 1: So when you have things that you've asked your kid
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  Speaker 1: to do and they feel non compliant, ask yourself how
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  Speaker 1: you can make them feel safer and more secure in
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  Speaker 1: that situation. And remember, when I talk about safety, it
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  Speaker 1: is also mental, emotional, and social safety. It is not
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  Speaker 1: just physical safety. You can prioritize connection in lots of ways,
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  Speaker 1: like spending time that is very intentional together, which I
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  Speaker 1: just talked about in fostering that relationship right, and you
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  Speaker 1: can validate their emotions and their experience without judgment. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: I see that your room is so overwhelming. When I
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  Speaker 1: ask you to clean your room, you probably have no
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  Speaker 1: idea where to start, and it feels like it is
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  Speaker 1: a mountain that you cannot climb. I get that it
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  Speaker 1: is a lot. What if we start by just picking
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  Speaker 1: up the dirty clothes today, that's it. We're just going
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  Speaker 1: to grab them up in our arms and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to take them to the laundry room and I'll even
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  Speaker 1: race you. Let's see who can pick up more faster
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  Speaker 1: on your market set. Go imagine those two scenarios how
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  Speaker 1: differently your kid is going to respond. Right. So, connection
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  Speaker 1: over compliance foster a strong parent child really relationship. When
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  Speaker 1: trying to control your kids is that when we let
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  Speaker 1: go of control, we allow our kids to think critically
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  Speaker 1: and find their own solutions. Those are essential skills for life, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Those are essential skills for adulting, problem solving and critical thinking.
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  Speaker 1: If you are trying to control your kid, then you
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  Speaker 1: are telling them what to do. You're not giving them
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  Speaker 1: the space to figure it out. You're not giving them
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  Speaker 1: the space to make mistakes and learn from them either,
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  Speaker 1: and that doesn't give them the space to do hard
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  Speaker 1: things and get to the other side of it. There's
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  Speaker 1: so many skills here that we are fostering when we
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  Speaker 1: stop trying to control our kids. Constant control prevents our
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  Speaker 1: kids from developing those problem solving skills because they don't
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  Speaker 1: get the chance to make choices or to face challenges
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  Speaker 1: on their own. When I did the Anxiety Summit twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, about a month before I am recording this,
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  Speaker 1: I was talking with Leonor Skanazi, author of Free Range
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  Speaker 1: Parenting and co founder of let Grow, and we were
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  Speaker 1: talking about how independence really helps to counterbalance anxiety. And
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  Speaker 1: in their program at let Grow, they challenge kids to
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  Speaker 1: choose something that they want to do wholly by themselves,
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  Speaker 1: completely independently, and then they have them do it, and
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  Speaker 1: then they report back about what that experience was like.
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  Speaker 1: And so often kids realize that they can do more
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  Speaker 1: on their own than they think they can. They just
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  Speaker 1: need someone to believe in them, to believe that they
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  Speaker 1: can do it, and then they will take the risk,
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  Speaker 1: and they will push forward and they will figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: It is a very powerful thing for kids to experience
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  Speaker 1: successfully doing something independently, and that cannot happen if we
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  Speaker 1: are just controlling them. If you want to model or
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  Speaker 1: encourage critical thinking and problem solving skills, you can do
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  Speaker 1: things like asking open ended questions and letting your kids
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  Speaker 1: brainstorm for solutions to those everyday problems. If your kid
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  Speaker 1: comes to you and says, mom, dad, nana, Papa, how
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  Speaker 1: do I do blink or what do I do now?
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  Speaker 1: Don't give them the answer. Ask them what they think
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  Speaker 1: comes next. Ask them how they think that process should go.
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  Speaker 1: Help them to navigate the path without telling them what
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  Speaker 1: to do or how to navigate that path. Hopefully that
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  Speaker 1: makes sense to you. Reason number four to stop controlling
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  Speaker 1: your kids is because when you control your kids, they
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  Speaker 1: cannot develop any sort of autonomy. And we need autonomy
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  Speaker 1: for confidence, for self esteem, for motivation, to feel like
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  Speaker 1: we have purpose in the world. Right. It is so
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  Speaker 1: very important, and we have so many systems in place
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  Speaker 1: in our culture that remove any sense of autonomy. If
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  Speaker 1: you think about our school system, it is about everyone
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  Speaker 1: and doing things the same. It's about consistency and compliance
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  Speaker 1: and fitting in, and that then removes any potential for
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  Speaker 1: developing autonomy. Lots of great teachers will offer choices in
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  Speaker 1: maybe the assignments that they give or things like that,
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  Speaker 1: little glimpses of autonomy. But we need to give kids
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  Speaker 1: full access to developing autonomy, and we do not do
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  Speaker 1: that whatsoever if we are focused on controlling them. Giving
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  Speaker 1: kids age appropriate autonomy helps them feel capable, confident, as
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  Speaker 1: I just said, and they learn to trust themselves. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, y'all, they learn to trust themselves. That is huge,
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  Speaker 1: especially kids who are anxious, especially kids who have rological differences,
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  Speaker 1: are neurodivergent. Trusting themselves doesn't come easy because they notice
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  Speaker 1: those differences or they fear negative outcomes. So fostering autonomy
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  Speaker 1: to help our kids trust themselves and their own judgment,
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  Speaker 1: their own decisions and choices is huge, and you can
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  Speaker 1: encourage that in so many different ways. Allow your kids
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  Speaker 1: to pick out the clothes they're going to wear to school,
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  Speaker 1: what they'd like to have in their lunch box, what
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  Speaker 1: they'd like to have for breakfast. Maybe on Fridays, the
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  Speaker 1: kids take turns choosing what you're going to have for
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  Speaker 1: dinner together. And give them some little responsibilities. That is
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  Speaker 1: another great way to build autonomy. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: give your kid the responsibility of feeding the cat every day,
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  Speaker 1: set them up for success. Make sure they understand what
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  Speaker 1: the process is. They have executive functions, challenges, post a
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  Speaker 1: list of the steps or photographs of the steps for them.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure they can be successful. But give them that
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  Speaker 1: responsibility and then notice their success with it. And then
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  Speaker 1: our number five reason for not trying to control your
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  Speaker 1: kids is that we are trying to raise individuals. We
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  Speaker 1: are not raising mini me's, We are not raising many
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  Speaker 1: versions of ourselves. We are raising individual, unique people, little
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  Speaker 1: people who need some guidance, yes, but they are individuals.
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  Speaker 1: They should have the opportunity to develop their own interests,
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  Speaker 1: their own beliefs, their own strengths, and their own path.
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  Speaker 1: And like I was talking about a second ago, in education,
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  Speaker 1: we can give kids more choice about what they want
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  Speaker 1: to study. For instance, at home, we can give kids
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  Speaker 1: more choice about the activities that they want to participate in,
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  Speaker 1: when they do their homework, when they take their daily shower.
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  Speaker 1: We can give them those opportunities so that they can
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  Speaker 1: develop into the person that they are meant to be,
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  Speaker 1: into their authentic self. And again, when we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: kids or nerdi version or have anxiety, is very hard
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  Speaker 1: for them to sometimes be very real in front of
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  Speaker 1: others because they're afraid that those differences might be judged.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's our responsibility to help them feel safe
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  Speaker 1: and secure in who they are and to develop their
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  Speaker 1: own unique personhood. I challenge you to really let go
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  Speaker 1: of some of your expectations around your kid being like you,
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  Speaker 1: and that is not the easiest thing to do, especially
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  Speaker 1: if there were lots of things that were part of
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  Speaker 1: your childhood that you really enjoyed. We tend to attach
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  Speaker 1: that to our kid's childhood and say, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my childhood was happy because of the summer camp I
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  Speaker 1: went to every year, for example, So my kid really
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  Speaker 1: needs to go to this summer camper or similar summer
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  Speaker 1: camp because that's what childhood is about and that's what
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  Speaker 1: brings joy. Well, maybe that's not true for your kid.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you have a kid who hates the outdoors or
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  Speaker 1: you know, doesn't like being away from mom and dad
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  Speaker 1: for a long period, doesn't like going somewhere where they
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  Speaker 1: don't know anyone. We need to offer opportunities, and we
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  Speaker 1: need to let our kids choose where they want to go.
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  Speaker 1: What opportunities do they want to engage with, What opportunities
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  Speaker 1: do they want to pass up. It is okay if
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  Speaker 1: they pass things up that you you feel like are important,
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  Speaker 1: they may come back to them. They may not be
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  Speaker 1: important for them. It doesn't mean that they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to have a happy, successful adulthood, whatever that looks like.
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  Speaker 1: For them. Give them the opportunity for self discovery, and
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  Speaker 1: they will find themselves. They will find their greatness and
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  Speaker 1: their joy, and they will figure out the path for them.
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  Speaker 1: But if we try to pigeonhole them into the path
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  Speaker 1: that we think they should take, if we try to
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  Speaker 1: pigeonhole them into being the person we think they should be,
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  Speaker 1: or believing the things that we believe, we are creating
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  Speaker 1: a huge cavernous gap in that relationship, for one thing,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not helping them be their authentic selves. We
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  Speaker 1: are sending the message that they're not supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: who they are. They can't be who they are. Who
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  Speaker 1: they are isn't okay. And none of those met or
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  Speaker 1: what we want for our kids. So let's recap. We
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  Speaker 1: have five reasons that we need to stop trying to
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  Speaker 1: control our kids. Number one, the parent child relationship is everything,
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  Speaker 1: and you want to foster a strong relationship. Number two,
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  Speaker 1: connection always works better than trying to force compliance. Number three,
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  Speaker 1: we need to be able to teach problem solving and
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  Speaker 1: critical thinking skills, and that can't happen if we control
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  Speaker 1: our kids. Number four, we want our kids to develop
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  Speaker 1: autonomy and to have the confidence and the motivation and
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  Speaker 1: the self esteem that goes with that. And then reason
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  Speaker 1: number five, we are raising unique individuals. We're not raising
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  Speaker 1: many versions of ourselves. When we relinquish the control, our
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  Speaker 1: kids get to follow their own path. Remember, as a parent,
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  Speaker 1: your role is a guide and a supporter. I often
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  Speaker 1: talk about it as though you're the sherpa. You're helping
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  Speaker 1: and you're providing your wisdom, But they are determining how
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  Speaker 1: they want to go on that journey, and what that
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  Speaker 1: journey looks like for them, and how they receive it,
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  Speaker 1: what emotions and stories they attach to it. When you
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  Speaker 1: take up the role as the guide and the supporter,
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  Speaker 1: you're helping them to navigate life with confidence and curiosity
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  Speaker 1: and resilience because they're learning all those skills that they
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  Speaker 1: don't get to learn if you're trying to take control.
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  Speaker 1: So I want you over the next week to try
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  Speaker 1: one small intentional shift toward connection of control. What can
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  Speaker 1: you do to foster connection? What can you do to
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  Speaker 1: relinquish some control? I promise you in the end it
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  Speaker 1: will be a better outcome. It will help you to
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  Speaker 1: show up as the parent that you want to be
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  Speaker 1: for your kid. You can access the show notes for
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  Speaker 1: Please take good care. I will see you next time.
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