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Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled cover image

How We Invalidate Our Kids Without Meaning To (And What to Do Instead)

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

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How to Encourage Your Child to Take a Stand on Something

I have two boys, nearly six and nearly two. My question is about the older one. He's generally unwilling to put his opinion on things out there. It's like he's afraid to be wrong. We can help our children have a lot of these tools that we didn't get with just this one very challenging idea. Keep those channels wide open. Be curious. Open up that space. Staying in tune with those feelings that they're having. How often do we tend to kind of lose our way with that as we get older? I know I have not trusting my perspective on a situation, not trusting that it's okay to feel what I feel.

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