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The Non-Anxious Leader Podcast
Episode 258: Overfunctioning, Underfunctioning and Healthy Emotional Space
Dec 18, 2023
Explore the shift in parenting styles towards over functioning and its negative impact on children's resilience. Understand the behaviors of over functioning and under functioning through real-life examples and stories. Learn about the importance of self-differentiation and maintaining healthy emotional space. Discover how avoiding overfunctioning and underfunctioning can lead to a more mature leadership system.
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- Overfunctioning and snow plow parenting can hinder children's resilience and hinder their ability to be themselves.
- Overfunctioning individuals taking on tasks that should be the responsibility of others collapses healthy emotional space and hampers system capability and resilience.
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Over functioning and the shift in parenting
The podcast episode discusses the shift in parenting towards greater over functioning. Initially, parents were categorized as helicopter parents who hovered over their kids. Then, there was a shift to snow plow parents who cleared out obstacles ahead of their children. However, over functioning is not helpful as it makes children less resilient. The podcast emphasizes how children often feel the need to escape from their parents in order to be themselves and highlights that over functioning stems from our own anxiety over the well-being of others.
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