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Episode 5: Exit Strategies For Preventing Meltdowns & Navigating Around Family Derailments
A parent once asked Shari Murray the obvious objection: if my child is always given a way out of doing hard things, how will they ever build resilience?
Her answer reframes the entire topic. Resilience is not enduring something. It is knowing yourself well enough to identify what you need, accessing it, and creating strategies for getting through. A young person who can recognize they are overloading, take a planned break, regulate, and come back has just demonstrated resilience — not avoided it. The child who is made to sit there until they melt down has learned nothing except that the room…
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