You are doing a great job connecting in comments, so please continue! Please comment on whatever speaks to you and reply to others' posts - great work! I love hearing the "practice" piece, so hopefully some of you will reflect on how you are planting seeds and modeling with their kids. If possible, please share at least one comment and reply to one other person's comment, to keep the discussion going.
Also, a couple of parents have suggested meeting again face-to-face about halfway through the book. What do you think?
Chapter
3 key concepts:
- Finding balance
- Catastrophic thinking
- Predictability
- Perfectionism
- Rigidity
- How avoidance strengthens our worry/ how parents strengthen avoidance
- Importance of teaching flexibility
- Plant the seeds of flexibility
- Model the process of flexibility
Goal: Be more like a cat:)
Teaching flexibility is one of my favorite things and it's easy for me to think of how I use it with students everyday. I'm drawing a blank for when I use it with my own kids, though, and that should probably change:) I know how much better I feel when I can talk myself through a stressful situation with flexible thinking, rather than getting buried in the frustration that comes so easily! I always tell students it's when the SMARTboard doesn't work that I need to try extra hard to be a flexible thinker. It really is good stuff - and a great reminder for me to keep practicing it.
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