Letting Kids Be Little
b"In a world where kids get big praise for hitting their developmental milestones ahead of schedule- he sat up before six months! She was talking in sentences before her second birthday!- there are still times and places to let kids be little. \\nLetting kids be little means maybe they are wiggly worms when you'd like them to be sitting still. \\nLetting kids be little means letting them come back and touch base with you, and then leave, and come back, and then leave, and come back.\\nLetting kids be little means letting them still have those things that the world says they\\u2019re too big for. It means encouraging them to do and to have what they love, even if it isn't cool.\\nHere\\u2019s how we try to let our kids be little, and how it has made our kids\\u2019 lives (and ours) more joyful.\\nWe find that we have the most fun in our families when we're the silliest-and when we let the kids be the littlest.\\n\\nHere are links to research and other writing we discuss in this episode:\\nDr. Ned Hallowell for Parents League: Protecting Childhood\\nMeredith Ethington for Scary Mommy: I Finally Get What They Mean By \\u2018Let Them Be Little\\u2019\\nDr. Perri Klass for The New York Times: Offering Kids a Taste of Alcohol\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"