Whose Choice is it anyway: the Parent or the Kid?
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2013
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We discuss two related topics:
Know anyone who lives life through their children? Can you be too close to your children? Do you know parents that have a case of the “We’s” – Do you find parents who say things like “We are trying to make the soccer team” or “We decided to do ballet this summer.” This can sometimes be a sign that parents might be a little too close to their children.
We also discuss a related term called “Empathetic Distress” based on an article that appeared in “Spirituality & Health- Is It Possible To Be Empathetic To A Fault?” Can there be a dark side to compassion? We discuss how you might be getting the exact opposite result of your intention.
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| 0:00.0 | Is that Parenting Radio? |
| 0:05.5 | My name's Todd. |
| 0:06.1 | And this is Kathy. |
| 0:07.0 | All right. |
| 0:07.4 | Welcome back. |
| 0:08.0 | We have an awesome show plan. |
| 0:10.1 | And when I say awesome, I mean awesome. |
| 0:12.6 | What's this thing we're doing? |
| 0:13.7 | The best. |
| 0:14.1 | We're talking about, I get this magazine that I love called Spirituality and Health. |
| 0:18.5 | Actually a very good magazine. |
| 0:19.4 | It's really good. |
| 0:20.5 | And I think it comes once every two months. |
| 0:23.4 | I don't think it's a monthly. |
| 0:24.5 | By-monthly. |
| 0:25.1 | It's bi-monthly. |
| 0:25.7 | But anyway, there's a great article this month called unraveling empathetic distress. |
| 0:32.2 | We're going to talk about what empathetic distress means, but I was just saying I was just saying to Todd as I, he was just reading it, |
| 0:37.9 | and I was just saying to him how great it is to have language, have words to describe these |
| 0:42.6 | experiences that a lot of us have as parents or in our relationships with our significant others, |
| 0:46.9 | or maybe we remember it from our childhood, because once we have a word, we can get our arms |
| 0:51.0 | around it and kind of see ourselves more clearly. |
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