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violate their boundaries. I see it all the time. If a child refuses to kiss a relative,

I see parents shoving them to go and give a hug or a kiss to that relative that they don't want to or sharing when it's totally an age inappropriate to expect a child to share. Do you see this? Because I know you're into conscious parenting as well. How can we teach our children so that they don't have to go through the huge healing journeys that we have so that they can start to hold their

boundaries earlier and easier? I think that it goes back to kind of what we were just saying

is that we have to give our children space to be upset. When we become adults,

who are people pleasers and codependent, it really triggers us when our children get upset. And so we

really have a hard time holding space for a child that is screaming on the ground and crying.

We really have a hard time when we're at a playdate

and our child is the one not sharing the toy. However, long term, the benefits of not forcing a

child to share, not forcing a child to hug are extreme. So going back to what you said about

the sharing in like a play date or whatever,

you know, I tell parents all the time, it's okay to be the one parent that says, you know,

when my son is done with this, your daughter can have a turn. I think that we need to be okay again

in situations where we're not liked and we're not approved of. But far too often in parenting

especially, we parent from a place of fear. We parent because we want other parents to like us.

We parent because we think that if we don't force our child to share or if we don't force our

child to give Uncle Joey a hug, then they're going to be

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