Helping Kids Handle Disappointment

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4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We all know intellectually that kids learn from challenges, and they grow stronger and have more self-confidence when they learn to navigate those challenges. But when you’re actually going through it it’s hard, as a parent, to watch your kid struggle. It’s also hard to identify where the line is between reasonable struggle and a real need for help. In this episode, Christine and Asha share 8 tips for how parents can help kids handle disappointment while not hovering. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to edit your life.
0:07.5	I'm Christine Co.
0:09.1	And I'm Asha Dornfest and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you
0:13.6	have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:16.0	We share practical ways to declutter your home, schedule and mental space without getting
0:19.6	bogged down by perfection.
0:24.3	And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.
0:26.8	Good morning, Asha. How are you?
0:34.5	I'm getting there. I'm getting there. We've had a school, we've had a school schedule change. So our mornings have gotten a lot earlier. But I guess the good news is that
0:38.3	means our podcast recordings are later. Yeah. Well, like, so not at six in the morning for you, which
0:44.0	that's good. I think that's a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. Although I have to say that there was something
0:48.6	pretty wonderful about like getting up first thing in the morning and just grabbing my coffee and then
0:52.8	coming straight to my my computer and hearing you in my ears first thing in the morning and just grabbing my coffee and then coming straight to my computer and hearing you in my ears first thing in the morning. So anyway, it's all good.
1:01.4	So speaking of school transitions, now that school is underway, I've sort of had a moment to
1:09.3	take a breath and think about summer, which now seems like a million miles away.
1:14.1	It's sort of funny how that is.
1:15.7	And it was a really wonderful summer, but it kicked off with a really big disappointment for Sam, my 17-year-old son.
1:23.6	And in thinking about it, it just occurred to me that this would be a really interesting conversation for us to have, just about disappointment and how one deals with it.
1:33.4	So I'll just give you a little context.
1:36.7	Sam, as I had mentioned, I think maybe at the beginning of the summer on this podcast, he'd landed his first real summer job with a local small business and he was
1:45.8	really excited about it. I mean, a real job with a real paycheck and the whole thing. But for
1:51.1	whatever reason, right before he was about to start, the employer had a change of plans and
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