Betsy GuerraBilingual Keynote Speaker, Psychotherapist/Coach, Author, Leadership Training and Life Coach Certification

Stop shielding our children from pain.

11 Mar 2023 · 0 min

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Betsy Guerra argues that parents' instinct to shield children from pain, while well-intentioned, prevents children from gaining resilience, strength, and growth that arise through experiencing and overcoming pain. The excerpt presents this as the central thesis or opening claim of a short talk or video.

We as parents want to solve problems. We want to remove pain from our children. We want to avoid their heartache, and we want to shelter and protect them. And while that's beautiful and important, when you protect from pain, you're also protecting from the gain that comes from that pain. You're protecting from the rising, the strengthening, the resilience, everything that is built through that pain.