This week on our Nurture platform, Dr. Tanya Cotler, licensed clinical psychologist, gifted us with a huge takeaway\u2014we are supposed to mess up 70% of the time as parents. She spoke of the relationship between \u201cRupture and Repair\u201d and the bogus expectation of perfection (we hope you are sensing a common theme here\u2026parenting is NOT perfection).
What happens when we lose our cool? What happens when our anxiety shows up as impatience? How do we move on and raise resilient children who are able to recognize their feelings, acknowledge their emotions, accomplish difficult things, and adapt.
Jamie and Emily talk about separating your actions from who you are as a parent (and avoiding the vicious spiral of parental guilt). We all have worries. We all screw up. Instead of feeling guilty, work to repair it, talk about what happened, and bring it full circle. This is a lesson for you and beneficial for your children.
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