Make New Mistakes by elycefeliz at Flickr
Join us as we discuss:
How trying new things and making mistakes is beneficial for both you and your kids.
The neurology to why mistakes are so good at helping us remember and make better decisions.
A few popular parenting mistakes you may be making.
Screw Up
Join us as we discuss:
A great article from, of all places, Forbes Magazine on 7 major screw ups parents tend to make.
How the honest evaluation of ourselves, yes, including our screw ups, is the answer to those kids we want to see grow up.
I’m putting a third point because a literature teacher years ago must have told me I’m supposed to.
SHOW NOTES
7 Crippling Parenting Behaviors That Keep Children from Growing Into Leaders
Family Podcast Network is now releasing MicroCasts (ultra-short topics that occur to me randomly during the day) on Facebook and Twitter. To make sense of these posts Like FPN on Facebook and Twitter to listen to the MicroCasts.
In today’s MicroCast we discussed making mistakes as parents and being honest about them. I promised you a failure story of my own to kick off the party so here we go:
When my son Grant was about 6-8 months old we realized we had a cryzie-baby. Little dude didnt relent of the fussing.
This led me to believe that he was, in fact, a fussy baby. This was particularly baneful to me since my daughter just didn’t cry much but I went on accepting the best I could that he was a fussy baby.
A few weeks later we took him in for one of his checkups to which the doctor informed us that he had an acute ear infection and that the fluid behind his ear-drum was so bad it might rupture.
I realized instantly I had been labeling my son a fussy baby when he was actually just in pain.
I felt like doo…
Feel free to share yours in the comments section below! We’ve all got them.
