#190: Child Gives Up Easily & Toddler Asking About Own Death
Parenting Beyond Discipline
Erin Royer, MA Clinical Psychology, Child Development Specialist
4.4 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A lot of parents struggle with toddlers and children who are overly persistent. But what do you do when your child gives up very easily on small tasks and barely even tries? How do help your child develop more tenacity? What about a toddler who is asking a lot about death, including her own? How do you be honest about death without scaring your child into being concerned about her own?
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| 0:47.1 | Okay, our questions today are about a child who seems to give up really easily on tasks and a toddler |
| 0:53.9 | who seems concerned with her own sense of mortality. |
| 0:57.4 | So I'm going to get right to the first question from Kaylee Ann, and she wrote, hi. |
| 1:01.3 | My son is four, almost five. |
| 1:03.2 | He's a sweet boy, caring and observant. |
| 1:05.7 | The major challenge he has right now, and school has mentioned this as well, is that when confronted |
| 1:10.6 | with the problem, |
| 1:11.6 | the stack of blocks he built keeps falling or he can't climb up the PlayStation at the park |
| 1:15.9 | or barely even tries. He will get very upset and emotional. He blocks and focuses on the negative |
| 1:21.7 | and can't pass through this to see the other options or solutions. I've tried to help him or leave him be. Either way, |
| 1:28.8 | it's very hard to get him to calm down and push himself to overcome it. He gets angry at me |
| 1:33.5 | because I don't help him. He pretends to try to find a solution, but he actually is not. |
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