#308: Raising Courageous Kids While Allowing Them to Stay True to Themselves
Parenting Beyond Discipline
Erin Royer, MA Clinical Psychology, Child Development Specialist
4.4 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Parents know, letting fear stop us can really hold us back in life. We can each think of a time in childhood we wish we had overcome, or overcome the fear sooner and stepped into being more brave. Being brave doesn't mean we aren't afraid. Being brave means we feel the fear and do it anyway. As adults we know the great benefits of pushing ourselves past our discomfort (even if we struggle sometimes too!) Kid fears often seem so minor to us now. But they are big for them. Regardless of age, how can help your child see past the fear to the benefits of trying and overcoming, toddlers to teens? Like everything, it looks a little different at each age. I cover some great tools for helping kids build their courage muscle. Because the more we use it, the stronger it gets!
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| 0:00.0 | We won't always make the right choice. Sometimes we're going to push too hard. Sometimes we may not |
| 0:05.5 | push them hard enough. And it's okay to mess up. And I don't want to call it mess up, right? We're doing the |
| 0:11.7 | best we can with what we have. We are human. We're going to make decisions with what we know. |
| 0:17.2 | We're going to do our best. We will recover. And so will our kids. Because when it comes |
| 0:23.4 | down to it, when we have that connection, when they know that we love them, when they know what we do |
| 0:28.5 | is all about love, this will mend that little mess up really, really quickly. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline. Your Village is the most comprehensive site for evidence-based parenting classes available on |
| 0:48.3 | demand. |
| 0:49.4 | At Your Village online.com. |
| 0:52.3 | Our 50 plus classes give parents the foundation, steps, and tools for creating |
| 0:56.6 | strong, healthy relationships with their children, resulting in responsible, cooperative, |
| 1:01.5 | happy, and successful children and families. My goal is to help parents support their children |
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| 1:19.6 | Erin Royer. Hello everyone. So I had an episode almost completely ready to go and then something happened with my kids this week, |
| 1:29.5 | while one of my kids in particular, and I just felt like that would make a really good topic for |
| 1:35.3 | an episode, which is how to support kids to be brave. I'm going to talk about what that looks like |
| 1:43.0 | and how we can do this by age. |
| 1:45.6 | So as we know, kids just like adults will run the spectrum of risk-taking, from highly risk-averse |
| 1:51.8 | to kids who seem to have no fear at all. But most kids will fall somewhere in the middle. |
| 1:58.0 | Regardless, everyone has areas where they're more open to taking risks |
| 2:02.1 | and areas where they're much more risk-averse. These areas might be physical risk. There'll be |
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