Let Them Try Before You Decide Who They Are
Celebrate Kids Podcast with Dr. Kathy

Let Them Try Before You Decide Who They Are

B1IntermediateOctober 20, 202619 min
  • Relationships & psychology

In this episode of the Celebrate Kids Podcast, Dr. Kathy Koch and Wayne Stender explore how parents can help kids discover their gifts without overengineering their childhood. They discuss the value of exposing children to different activities and noticing what brings them joy and energy. Parents will also be encouraged to think carefully about commitment while still recognizing when an activity may no longer be healthy or useful.

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If they're not well enough to go to school, they don't play games all day. They rest. I would have kind of that same attitude. If you quit something, then what are we going to do with that time redeemed?

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So Dr. Kathy, today on the Celebrate Kids podcast and this daily segment, face in the dark. I want to ask you, how did your parents introduce you to new things when you were young? I know that you had things like music and dance that you were introduced to. How did they do that? That's interesting. Well, I was introduced to tap dance because I said I didn't want to be

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tall anymore. And my parents were problem solvers. I like to say they didn't make me feel like I was the problem, but they definitely listened to my brother, David, myself, hoping to be able to meet our needs and solve our problems. So my mom looked into it, found out there was tap dance, signed me up, walked me over and lo and behold, I became a dancer. Music was something that they

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