In this series, we are highlighting compelling reasons to allow your child to make mistakes gracefully. See Compelling Reason #1 for more information.
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Compelling Reason #8
Thoughts.
When our children make mistakes and it arouses emotions within us, we get to play with one of the most powerful tools in our parenting tool kit [...]
In this series, we are highlighting compelling reasons to allow your child to make mistakes gracefully. See Compelling Reason #1 for more information.
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Compelling Reason #7
Fear.
To elaborate on the idea of perfectionism, the roots clearly point to fear.
When parents resist allowing their children to make mistakes, a subtle message is heard. [...]
In this series, we are highlighting compelling reasons to allow your child to make mistakes gracefully. For more information see Compelling Reason #1
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Perfectionism.
The “perfect parent” syndrome engulfs the most unsuspecting and the most privy, from time to time. The desire to do things “right” is alive and it can [...]
In this series, we are looking at compelling reasons to allow your child to make mistakes gracefully. See Compelling Reason #1 for more details.
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Control
Parents have the best of intentions when they try to control their children’s behavior, but let’s say you really want your child to learn kindness to others. [...]
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In this series, we are highlighting the art of allowing our children to make mistakes gracefully. Please see Compelling Reason #1 to learn more.
Mirrors.
Through witnessing our children’s “mistakes” and our reaction to them, we can learn about deeply held beliefs that are not serving us anymore. Take a look at the things [...]
In this series, we are highlighting the art of allowing our children to make mistakes gracefully. Please see Compelling Reason #1 to learn more.
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Compelling Reason #3
Unconditional Love.
Mistakes create a great opportunity to demonstrate your unfailing love for your child in the face of anything that happens. Sometimes we give our children [...]
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In this series, we are highlighting the opportunities available in making mistakes. Please visit Compelling Reason #1 to learn more.
Compelling Reason #2
Self-Preservation.
You could miss the opportunity to see how amazingly resilient and self protective your children really are. Think about it.
We sometimes protect our children to the point of [...]
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Parents can often find themselves feeling indecision and hesitancy in how to act in a certain situation. To bring one’s self to a point of clarity, it may be helpful to trace some feelings back to how mistakes were handled in the family of origin.
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Part of the transformational parenting journey from overwhelm to harmony includes the valuable tool of transitioning one’s perspective. One way to do this is observe our children and make questionable or undesirable behaviors into strengths.
Some examples of this might be…
the toddler who climbs on everything becomes an adventurous, graceful child
the [...]
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To some fun and not-so-serious play!
It is very easy to get caught up in the roles we take on as parents: housekeeper, cook (or shall I say chef?), listener, referee, problem solver, teacher, provider… the list is really endless.
There is another list, one that our children can lead us to, [...]
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