AP 374: How to Parent Your Perfectionistic Child, Part Two || with Dr. Jennifer AP 374: Finlayson-Fife and Carolyn Bever

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Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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(Note: This is Part Two of How to Parent Your Perfectionistic Child. Start with episode 373 to hear Part One of our conversation!) So, you officially know that you have a perfectionistic child. (Psst: yes, even the “under-achiever” types count!) Where can you start as their parent to help them overcome their perfectionistic tendencies? According to Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and Carolyn Bever, you have to start with yourself! This advice may seem counterintuitive, but these experts say that managing yourself is KEY to being able to best empower your perfectionist-child.. Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and Carolyn Bever are back for Part Two of our conversation to talk about your role as you parent a perfectionistic child. (Hint: Your role isn’t to fix or micromanage them. Your role is to love them!) This may seem difficult, but Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and Carolyn Bever give practical tips to best move forward, including: thinking from your child’s point-of-view, getting an outsider’s perspective, and differentiating your role from your child’s. As parents, we are anxious to do a good job raising our kids. Come listen to two experts discuss how you can parent your perfectionistic child with more love and more confidence, too.. Full Show Notes + Transcript Podcast Sponsor - code 'ABOUTPROGRESS' Finding Me Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you have a perfectionistic child, the pressure and the confusion is real over how to parent them.
0:08.0	Today, you'll get more practical advice on how to empower your child outside of perfectionism.
0:14.0	A spoiler, it starts with you.
0:18.0	Welcome to About to Progress.
0:21.0	I'm Monica Packer, a regular mom and recovering perfectionist who uncovered the truest model to dramatic,
0:28.0	but lasting personal growth.
0:30.0	It's progress made practical.
0:33.0	Join us to leave the extremes behind and instead learn how to do something to grow and ways that stick.
0:44.0	If you like this podcast, then you'll love my foundational course on identity called Finding Me.
0:50.0	When you are stable in knowing yourself, you'll be a more stable parent too.
0:56.0	You can enroll at AboutProgress.com slash Finding Me.
1:05.0	This is Part 2 of our amazing interview with Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and her sister Carolyn Bever.
1:12.0	If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, please go back and start there.
1:17.0	In Part 2, we are starting where we left off.
1:20.0	If you'll remember, we discussed what perfectionism looks like in kids and teenagers,
1:25.0	why they lean towards these tendencies, and how we as parents can begin to parent them better.
1:31.0	Carolyn already shared some great tips like circle the wagon, modeling and praising the process of growth,
1:36.0	and using stories to illustrate the important role of failure to our kids.
1:42.0	Both she and Jennifer emphasized that to better parent your perfectionistic child,
1:46.0	you need to start with better managing yourself.
1:50.0	So today, we will now expand on how to start with yourself by helping you define what your real role is as a parent,
1:58.0	and giving you tips on more practical ways you can better parent that perfectionistic child.
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