020: How To Affirm & Validate Your Child

Being acknowledged and validated is such a reaffirming and deeply positive experience. It is empowering and supportive. It is critical for our mental health. If you have felt this before, you know how important it is for our mental health — feeling good, accepted, and recognized.    And, it is just as significant for our children.   Not only do they get to feel this way too, but it actually goes deeper than that. Validation and acknowledgement shapes their psychological boundaries, their Sense of Self, and their Self-Esteem.    Even when we understand how important validation is, the problem we face is that we don’t quite know how to do it. Unless, once again, we have experienced it before.    Examples might be helpful, right?   I think so too, and so I made this PDF guide for you. In it, you will find many examples on how to offer acknowledgement and validation. And I also show you what the opposite of that — what a dismissive response may sound like (even when it is well intended).      Sign up here for the Emotionally Intelligent Parenting training.   Host: Julia Pappas, Psychologist & Parent Coach More info at theparentingpresence.com