Naomi Aldort, Author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves in interviewed about raising resilient children:
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In this parenting interview:
- How to raise an emotionally resilient child
- Avoiding the fear-based helicopter parenting and over-protection of children
- How a child benefits from failing and emotional challenges
- Work on yourself for your child’s benefit
- The harm of telling a child she is ‘special’
- How pressure and competitiveness cause anxiety and depression
- The SALVE communication formula
- How and why to not negate your child
- Jealousy between siblings
- How to respond to siblings hitting so that the underlying need is resolved
- The price of praise, rewards, competition, evaluation, and grades
- Schooling and education
- Why you should not push your child to succeed
- How striving to the top can be the cause of emotional harm
- Your child’s talents: Music, piano, art
- Being a famous pianist or other success is not always a success internally
- How living up to expectations harms the child
- Emotional freedom
- How to ensure your child’s choices are really free and not manipulated
- Parenting as leadership without control
- The importance of physical skills development for a child
- Sleeping with parents and developing self-reliance and independence
- How to childproof against molestation
- Autism and other special needs
- Food for a healthy, happy, and thriving child
- Kahlil Gibran Poem: Your Children Are Not Your Children
Raising Resilient Children; Naomi Aldort and Karen Quirk – Interview
