5min chapter

We Can Do Hard Things cover image

130. Breaking Cycles & Reparenting Yourself with Dr. Becky Kennedy

We Can Do Hard Things

CHAPTER

Do You Have Empathy for Your Kids?

Our job is to hold the boundary, but we also get to allow our children to have feelings about that boundary. Honoring their feelings doesn't mean i become this permissive, anything goes parent. There's a difference between feelings and behaviours,. But embodying our authority isn't enough in any parenting approach. We're also validating feelings by letting one kid let me know they are mad at us. That's really terrifying for a kid who feels not real and not feeling like their feelings arrere being noticed. And you caun understand, because that's literally why i lie, exactly. I lie to preserve attachment, isay, people to think different of me.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode