My Top 3 Parenting Mistakes

IMPACT: Parenting with Perspective · May 20, 2021 · 25m

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"It's not how we make mistakes, but how we correct them that defines us."

~ Rachel Wolchin

#3 Catastrophizing!

This is one of my all-time favorites. Some people have accused me of making this word up, but it's a real word with a real definition.

catastrophize

: to imagine the worst possible outcome of an action or event: to think about a situation or event as being a catastrophe or having a potentially catastrophic outcome

This is one of the biggest mistakes that I make as a parent and that I see many of my clients making. They will see a circumstance, maybe their teen's…