“How Can I Help My Kid Make Friends?” :: David Thomas and Sissy Goff [Ep 483] Summer of Mentorship week 6

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Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Do you try to coach or control your kids in friendships? Whether sending them off to Kindergarten or College there are so many opportunities along the way to help them be good friends and pick good friends.

Today we are revisiting an amazing conversation with Sissy Goff and David Thomas discussing how to help our kids foster friendships. As licensed counselors, working at DayStar Counseling Center in Nashville, they provide support, encouragement, and compassion to children, adolescents, and families in need through counseling.

This episode has advice at every turn for every age and stage. David talks about dropping his son off at college and how to be a coach - not a fixer. We discuss shifting from focusing on how to get friends to how to be a good friend. Sissy breaks down the girl issues that arise with anxiety, feelings of isolation or being left out, and moms who sometimes care more than their daughters about certain social situations. This is a perfect episode heading into back-to-school season as we prepare to navigate relationships alongside our kids.

Connect with David Thomas and Sissy Goff:

Website: Raising Boys and Girls
Facebook: Raising Boys and Girls
Instagram: Sissy Goff (@sissygoff) and Raising Boys and Girls (@raisingboysandgirls)
Podcast: Podcast | Raising Boys and Girls

Summer of Mentorship Discussion Questions:

What stood out to you in the week’s episode?
What is one step you can take to become a coach instead of a fixer?
Could you sit down this week and have your child make a list of what characteristics a good friend has? Ask them how they are doing on that scale and if they are looking for people with those same qualities.
Can you name one issue one of your kids is having in this area and what ideas this episode brought up for you to try?
Are you praying for your kids' friendships and connections? If not, stop and pray now for one another that the Lord would provide lifelong Godly friends this year for each of your children.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all welcome back to the Don Mom Alone podcast I'm your host Heather
0:14.5	McPadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and connect you with
0:18.7	people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone and in this episode number 483 it is week six of our
0:27.7	summer of mentorship and as you all know during the summer of mentorship we go back into
0:32.0	the archives and republish previous conversations.
0:36.5	This summer I'm focusing in on questions you all sent me.
0:40.3	And one listener asks, how can I help my kids make friends?
0:44.4	Well, I decided to go back and republish this fantastic conversation with my go-to
0:50.9	resource, David Thomas, and Sissy Gough.
0:54.7	If you don't know who they are, let me introduce you.
0:58.0	They're both licensed professional counselors.
1:00.0	They work at Daystar in Nashville, Tennessee and they've been on the show each more than five times.
1:07.4	There are so many episodes you could go listen to in the show notes.
1:11.6	Megan has put links to all those they have books written
1:15.5	David focuses in on helping boys and their emotional regulation sissy with girls
1:21.4	anxiety being brave so many great books they mentioned one
1:26.2	they did together called are my kids on track that's linked in the show notes and
1:30.0	they have one
1:33.0	have one called Raising Boys and Girls. You should definitely check that out.
1:41.5	In this episode we do help you define what is your role
1:45.6	in helping your kids navigate friendships.
1:48.3	How do we help them have right perspective?
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