
Why you should connect with your kid, not correct them
Life Kit: Parenting
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Parenting Resilient Kids
i think part of it is, like i do, think there's this unconscious wish that our kids will heal us and adand the truth is, our kids trigger us. When we're triggered, what's happening is we're really looking to shut down in someone else what we had to learn to shut off in ourselves. And so why is whining so triggering? How does my past inform that moment? So if you're an adult, when you reflect on your childhood, even if youdon't remember specifics, if you would say, oh, i definitely grew up in one of those, pull yourself up by your bootstraps family... Then helplessness and vulnerability and powerlessness had no
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