Um, Dr. Becky, and this is good inside.

So your kid comes home from school, or gymnastics, or baseball, and tells you that they just

can't do it.

It's too hard, and everyone else in their class is better at the thing than they are.

Well, this week, I'm talking to a mom who has been doing all the right things to teach

her son to believe in himself, and it still isn't working.

And I think what triggered probably my worry was my son was, like, placed into a, like,

gifted and talented pre-programmed, he struggled with it, and he told me, I'm the worst in

the class.

I always finished last.

I'm dumb.

I don't want to be in this class.

And I think he was accustomed to being kind of like the first one in his class being

finished, being praised for doing well, and once he was placed in the class, he felt like

he was the worst out of this group of other children.

We'll be back right after this.

So for those of you who have kids who give up easily, tend to avoid doing things they

don't know that they'll be good at, or scream, I can't do it.

Whenever things get challenging, you are not alone.

And I hope you check out the same workshop I ended up recommending to Christine when

we spoke after the recording.

And that's the frustration tolerance workshop.

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