The Daily Dad

Give What You Didn’t Get. Forget What You Did.

Sep 8, 2023

03:11

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The podcast discusses the importance of giving our children what we didn't receive as kids and the need to forgive ourselves as parents. It emphasizes the significance of personal growth and moving past resentments for effective parenting.

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Give your children the support to be their authentic selves, even if you don't understand or agree.

Let go of negative experiences from your childhood to create a healthier environment for your children.

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Give what you didn't get

As parents, it's important to give our children the attention, support, and understanding that we may not have received as kids. This means encouraging them to be their authentic selves, supporting them even when we don't fully understand or agree, and giving them the space to fail and try again. It's about being the best version of ourselves for our kids and ensuring that we don't repeat the same mistakes or patterns that we experienced.

Giving and Forgiving as Parents

3min

As we’ve said before, each of us as parents have to try to give what we didn’t get as kids. The attention. The support. The understanding. Whatever it is, we have to try our best to be better for our kids.

That can be encouraging them to become who they are–even if you don’t agree or understand. Or making sure to give them space to fail, while showing them support and encouragement to try again. Or maybe it’s choosing to be an ancestor, not a ghost.

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