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Episode 75: How to Help Kids Navigate Emotions

Raising Boys & Girls

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Boys Are Strong in Blame Avoidance and Denial

Boys are strong in all three of those unless we're teaching something different. The swing that I talk a lot about in this new book that I see boys do over and over is swinging between blame and shame. So if boys are just swinging between discharge pain and self-contempt, like that's not a healthy way to live emotionally or relationally. And girls can certainly do the same. We should probably say this is kind of a continuum that we definitely see girls who alternate between blame and Shame. But they typically land more in the shame and self hatred piece of it.

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