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Hello, and welcome to Anatomy of Family. I'm your host, Melanie Studley. What's up, guys? My name is Seth Studley. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, and today we're talking about parenting each kid differently.

Let's go.

So, right before then, you said my breath smelled good because it smelled like International House of Pancakes Sausage, and I don't understand that.

Well, when you prayed for us, it smelled great. Really kind of hungry. It was funny. Anyway, let's dive into today's topic.

We're talking about parenting each kid differently, and this is a parenting concept. I've honestly not really heard many people talk about.

I would love to know it was your choice of topics, so I love you to start the thing off.

Okay, so some context. If you've listened to the show for a minute, we have three kids, age 13, now 12, one just turned 12 yesterday, and then we have a soon to be nine-year-old little baby, a little girl.

And our kid just had a birthday party, right? And I was thinking of this as something I've known forever being a parent and a therapist, and it was just a really stark kind of contrast of, wait a minute.

We have to do, or we got to do the other, this kid's birthday differently. You know what I'm saying? And we are leaning into his strengths. It's what we should always do as parents, and it's taken us a while to kind of get there.

Maybe I should refer him that and say, it's taken me a while to get there, right?

Thank you so much for saying that.

And if we think about it, if you listen to Anatomy of Marriage, or Anatomy of Family, or anything that we do, we talk about Family of Origin a lot.

And we talk about I, me, Seth, the person of Seth, is his own individuated, differentiated, any gram type number personality, right?

I am very individual.

So, as parents, where do we find the liberty? I think it's just assumptions and things that we don't even think about.

Why do we think it's okay to parent our kid just in a blanket to say?

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