Dr. Don WoodResolving Your Trauma-Based Challenges So You Can Unlock Peak Performance

"You Must Be Out of Your Mind" Podcast Clip2

20 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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This short podcast clip features Dr. Don Wood explaining how early childhood "programming"—especially in the first seven years—strongly shapes later life. He emphasizes parents' responsibility, how well-intentioned words can be misinterpreted by young children, and the lasting impact of early formative experiences.

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What comes down to program programming. Right. The 400 years ago, the Jesuit priests said, give me a child until they're 7 years of age and I'll determine the rest of their life. Which is amazing. Yeah, it's amazing because they can program them and then they'll get stuck in that programming for that first seven years. Because that early development in childhood is so critical. And this is why one of the things that I always talk about with parents is you have to understand how those first seven years are so formative for them. And even with the best of intentions. Right. We can have an effect on them, on how we say things. Because a five year old doesn't have enough life experience to understand what they just heard. What they're interpreting is, you may say something one way, and what they're hearing is, oh, they don't love me.