Helping children deal with change
My New Life
Kate Garlinge
4.7 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Why can change be so unsettling for our toddlers? I mean, change up the snack crackers and you may have a major crisis on your hands. On this episode of My New Life, Jessical Rolph hosts Lael Stone, author of “Raising Resilient and Compassionate Children”. Never is our resilience put to the test more so than in the face of change.
If you and your family are changing things up — be it a new home, new caregiver, or a new school, Lael will help you navigate what can be tricky terrain with your child. In addition to her work as a parent educator, she is a mother of three. You can find Lael @laelstone.
Takeaways:
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A great way to ease children into a big change (or even a smaller transition) is to create pictures and talk through what’s going to happen, who’s going to be there, and how it’s going to look. For those children that thrive on information, this dispels some of the anxiety around uncertainty.
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Make an effort to view change through the lens of your child. Even something like a visit to a new playground can feel scary. Meet their concerns with empathy and compassion rather than attempting to fix the situation, or justify why it’s no big deal.
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Children process what’s going on around them through play. Help your child to explore changes by creating a similar scenario with their favorite toys. It’s a great time to ask questions like: How do you think Teddy is feeling about moving to a new home?
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Change often makes children feel powerless. Try a power reversal game to restore some sense of power. This is a game where your child gets to be faster or stronger or know more than you do!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to My New Life, a Love Every podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Jessica Rolf. |
| 0:13.5 | We talk a lot about connected parenting at Love Every. |
| 0:16.7 | Australian experts are ahead of the curve when it comes to building strong parent-child relationships. |
| 0:22.8 | In this mini-series, I'll speak with Australian parent educators, psychologists, and pediatricians about setting, loving limits. |
| 0:32.3 | Why can change be so unsettling for our toddlers? |
| 0:36.4 | I mean, change up the snack crackers and you may have a |
| 0:39.3 | major crisis on your hands. Our guest on the podcast today is the author of raising, resilient, |
| 0:45.4 | and compassionate children. And never is our resilience put to the test more so than in the face of |
| 0:51.1 | change. This is true of children and adults alike. If you and your family are |
| 0:56.7 | changing things up, be at a new home, a new caregiver, or a new school, Lylell Stone will help you |
| 1:02.6 | navigate what can be tricky to reign with your child. In addition to her work as a parent educator, |
| 1:08.2 | Lael is a mother of three big kids, teenagers and young adults. I asked her |
| 1:12.9 | what we should consider when it comes to children and change. So I think the first thing always when I talk |
| 1:18.8 | to adults is to really hold a container of compassion and understanding that change can feel hard for |
| 1:25.1 | some children. And so when we look at how we can make change a little |
| 1:28.6 | bit easier for kids, for me, I'm always big on information as the first piece. Even if you have a |
| 1:34.4 | six-month-old or you have a four-year-old or an eight-year-old, we need to tell children and give |
| 1:39.8 | them information about what's happening. I have a school that we created that we opened three years ago |
| 1:44.6 | that's based all around emotional intelligence and one of the key factors of what we do at our school |
| 1:49.4 | is about information, which means that whenever we're doing something different, like if we are going |
| 1:54.2 | on an excursion somewhere or somebody new is coming into the school to teach something or we have |
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