In this episode I talk about the tendency of highly capable parents to be in love with their own way of doing things and how our children's insistence on "getting it wrong" is highly distressing to us.

There is a mindset in operation here that makes us just rush to the end...as if there is some pot of gold at the end of our "do it my way rainbow" that will make us never, ever experience another parenting problem ever again.

The problem with this mindset is that it leads to subtle power struggles that can distract our children from processing their own thoughts and feelings about their choice points because they are too busy fending off pressure from us to be able to drop down and notice what's going on inside.

I tell a story of how this played out in real life for me and how placing more value on personal experience and decision making, actually gifted my son with much needed momentum toward his goals.

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