Are you raising your kids to trust themselves?

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Todd and Cathy Adams

Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

My guess is that your answer is, “I hope so” or “Of course I am”. Sometimes what we wish for our kids is different than how we treat our kids. An example of this trust issue happened to me at Great America when I waited in line with my daughter to get on a roller coaster only to find out when it was our turn to board that she was too afraid to get on. There are two extremes of handling this situation- either force your child through guilt, shame, or fear to get on, or you can say nothing at all and exit the line. On this podcast I share if what I did helped her learn to trust herself and the long term ramifications of either extreme.

We explain the dangers of “labeling” your children as “good/bad” or “easy/challenging” and how that can affect who they are as they grow up.

Plus, one of our listeners wants some advice regarding teenagers. While we don’t have any of our own (yet), Cathy explains the similarities between a three year old and a thirteen year old and the idea of universal principles.

Lastly, I call myself out for not honoring Memorial Day and the inconsistencies between my thoughts and my actions.

Todd

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Todd Adams.
0:09.7	This is Kathy Adams.
0:10.7	Welcome back to Zen Parenting Radio.
0:12.5	We are going to be talking about teenage stuff, even though we have no teenagers.
0:16.3	Yes.
0:16.7	And how it all kind of relates to one another.
0:19.0	Yes.
0:19.8	We are going to talk about categorizing your kids, basically labeling them, and then it may be becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
0:28.6	They turn into who you label them as and why that's dangerous.
0:33.2	Dangerous.
0:34.2	And then we're going to call ourselves out and others for, we're taping this Memorial Day.
0:41.4	Yeah.
0:42.0	And so it's Monday Memorial Day.
0:44.3	And there's a parade going on downtown.
0:47.2	And do you want me to just tell my story?
0:49.5	Sure.
0:50.4	Because, well, there's a parade going on.
0:52.5	It's Memorial Day.
0:53.2	It just came out of the Daily Method, and that's right by where the parade is going.
0:59.8	So I walk outside and I see a fire engine and I'm like, oh my gosh, there's a parade going on.
1:04.4	And I'm thinking to myself, you know, how am I going to get out of here?
1:06.8	Because there's going to be so many people.
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