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#MUIYB Audio Short, LaVonna Roth-The Mindset To Achieve

11 Sept 2020 · 1 min

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In this brief interview, the speakers discuss contemporary parenting practices that shield children from experiencing loss, such as the “everyone gets a trophy” approach. They argue that while these mechanisms aim to protect kids from pain, they may inadvertently create disproportionate performance pressure and contribute to rising rates of depression, suicide, and other negative mental‑health outcomes. The conversation emphasizes the need for children to encounter manageable setbacks to build resilience, suggesting that allowing kids to make mistakes and experience loss is essential for healthy emotional development.

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There's all these parental mechanisms set up so that kids don't feel the pain of loss or losing. Like, you know, everyone gets the trophy, including the losing team. On the flip side, there's so much pressure on kids that there is a at least according to this book, at least, and this is my interpretation, is there's an increasing rate of depression and suicides and other horrible consequences of this lack of stress and this disproportionate stress in this category of performance. Have you what's your sense around that?
I believe wholeheartedly that we have done some harm. You know, it's because what happens is when you make a mistake and you mess up. Right. Or you lose, for example, you actually have to figure out some resiliency there. So you're.