FlexiLingo
Beyond “Kids Are Resilient”, What Kids Actually Need to Cope
Have you ever uttered the phrase, "Don't worry, kids are resilient"? It’s a line meant to comfort us as adults, but what if it’s actually giving us permission to skip over our kids' real struggles? In this episode, I sit down with children's therapist and author Stacy Schaffer to dismantle the massive misconceptions around childhood coping and resilience. Stacy shares her own powerful story of navigating a traumatic childhood under the guise of being the "perfect, shiny" kid , and explains why our well-behaved children might actually be suffering in silence. In this episode we c...
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I think that resiliency is not only the belief that you can make it through anything that like comes your way, but also the ability to know what to do in hard situations and who to go to. Welcome back to the show. You are listening to the Peds Talk Talk podcast in our sixth year. Can you believe it? It's me, Dr. Mona, your online pediatrician, maybe your mom friend,
maybe not. I hope I am if you're listening to me here for another honest conversation. So you may hear this phrase constantly, kids are so resilient. And to some degree, I believe this. I agree with it, but it has to be with support from a caregiver. The problem with the kids are so resilient, and I'm putting that in quotes, is that sometimes
Resilience could be a child who's just learned not to ask for help or not to express their emotions. And that's when resiliency cannot be what we think. So these are not the same thing.
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