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

"You Must Be Out of Your Mind" Ep13Clip2 Sub

2 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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A short transcript clip of Dr. Don Wood in conversation about how young children (around ages 4–5) lack the life experience to correctly interpret adult phrases or events. Dr. Wood gives a personal anecdote about misunderstanding the idiom "make ends meet" (thinking it referred to meat), and notes that such misunderstandings can become negative experiences for a child.

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You get a child, you know, especially a five, four year old child that doesn't have enough life experience to interpret this event. So the parent may be thinking that the child is absolutely fine the way they handle the situation, but you've got a five year old trying to figure out what does that mean.
Right.
In a really funny sort of way I remember my parents, my mom, every saying once in a while go, it's difficult to make ends meet. And I remember as a child, I never understood what that meant. I thought she was talking about meat, like really meat. And I was like, what do you, what meat meeting? Like why would you have to do that? Right. Because I didn't understand what she meant.
Yeah.
So that can really, you know, start to affect a child if it comes across as a negative experience.
That's right. I mean, I think when we're kids our perspective, our lens through which we see things is really limited.