PAP 156: New Year, New Parenting Mindset
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Is There Such a Thing as Perfectionism?
'There's just always ways to make our kids feel ok about mistakes, and there's ways to really harm them in the ways that we see and acknowledge mistakes,' she says. 'That perfectionism thing is definitely one of the potential costs.' She adds: 'It makes our kids afraid to try anything new because they don't want to do anything wrong,. Because they're afraid of the blowback they're going to get if they do it wrong... And there's no such thing as perfect so why are we striving for it? Ye cause, again, it's like paddling up against a wall - it doesn't exist yet"
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