#171 Force Your Kids to Finish? Or Let Them Quit? Our Surprising Answer
Welcome to the podcast! We\u2019re discussing something today that is crucially important to raising healthy, well-adjusted kids.
\nWe want to teach them to NOT be quitters, to follow through, and to have grit and perseverance.
\nBut in this episode, we lay out some arguments which show that the way many parents are trying to accomplish this is actually having the opposite effect.
\nWhen we make a six-year-old take dance class even though she hates it but we don\u2019t want her to be a \u2018quitter\u2019, what we\u2019re actually doing is engendering resentment \u2014 and she\u2019s not actually learning the lesson we\u2019re trying to teach.
\nDon\u2019t worry! We\u2019ve got some specific strategies for getting those outcomes you want. But you might be surprised that they\u2019re not what you expected. Listen now to learn what they are.
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