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A parent's guide to staying calm when your college-age kid calls you out on your mistakes. The speaker emphasizes emotional control, eye contact, and actually listening instead of defending yourself or shutting them down.
A parent's guide to staying calm when your college-age kid calls you out on your mistakes. The speaker emphasizes emotional control, eye contact, and actually listening instead of defending yourself or shutting them down.
One of the biggest challenges that parents have when they're guiding their college grads is that they have to have difficult conversations. And they have to be mentally prepared for that because what the parent is going to hear may not be what they want to hear. And how do they do that? How do they make sure that they're hearing what their young adult is saying while at the same time making sure that they keep themselves in check and not be reactive, not yell, not be dismissive, and not come at the conversation with their own agenda. You have to make sure that you're in a good place to be able to do that. Are you going to be okay when they say to you, "Hey, you really screwed up back there in the past." or you're really screwing up now. How are you going to react to that? How are you going to look them in the eye and accept responsibility? How are you going to sit there and acknowledge and validate what they just said so they know that you heard them? Those are the difficult conversations, and that's the inner work that parents have to do, because what they may hear may not be what they like.
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