It doesn't matter what it is, whether they're being bullied or whether this one feels like, oh, I don't understand this math equation or whatever. And I sit with them and I have meaningful conversations, and I will always ask them, do you trust me? The reason I ask that question is because I think a lot of times as parents, we just bark orders. We tell kids what they need to do, what they should do, how they should do it
Clay Lowe
@soulcruzer · 4:48
I mean, you're just born and there's just all that trust in your parents, in your mum and your dad and the folks around you, the adults around us, we just as little kids. We put a huge, tremendous amount of trust in them, and we don't even know how to define the word trust or what that actually means. We're just operating with full, unconscious faith that mom and dad knows what's going on. And so I have to trust them
And then you put this little plastic piece on that protects you from poking yourself. And I realized at this point I'd opened a can of worms because I'm talking about this little dangerous trinket with this kid that is not my own. But the mom was right there and we're at Disneyland, right. And he asked if he could have one. And the mom sort of notioned to me that it was fine
Ophelia Johnson
@LadyO · 3:27
Hey, Taylor, thanks for sharing that story. I love it. Actually, it's something when you have kids, their level of understanding and trust is so, you know, it's so brand new. Everything for them is like a clean slate. So when you tell them something, they're often curious anyway. And so I used to find myself doing what my mom would do to me. And that was because I told you so, because I said so. And I stopped doing that