Change Your Brain Every Day A Parent's Biggest Mistake If You Want to Raise a Mentally Strong Child (from a Psychiatrist)
Oct 31, 2025
Explore the fine line between helping and hindering your child's growth. Discover how overhelping can damage their self-esteem and competence. Learn about allowing affordable consequences to foster responsibility and independence. Hear about effective strategies like Coaching Kids to Solve Their Own Problems. Dive into Love and Logic's four-step problem-solving method and how it empowers kids. Ultimately, understand that genuine self-esteem stems from self-efficacy, encouraging kids to tackle their challenges confidently.
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Daily Choices Shape The Brain
- Every day you either strengthen or weaken your brain through choices and actions.
- Overdoing things for children can harm their competence and self-esteem.
Chloe Learned Homework Responsibility
- Tana stopped doing Chloe's homework and made Chloe responsible for her own work.
- Chloe quickly did her homework and learned responsibility through affordable consequences.
Use Affordable Consequences
- Let children experience minor consequences (affordable consequences) so they learn responsibility.
- Allowing small mistakes builds competence and personal agency over time.
