Parents can give their kids emotional literacy: understanding how feelings show up in the body and learning to validate themselves through the emotional process. This skill, modeled by parents, creates lasting self-affirmation across generations.
What's the greatest gift a parent can give their child?
The gift of understanding their emotions and understanding how to self-affirm. Because when we can actually know what our emotions even are, and what I mean by that is that we have emotions and that they're body-centered, right? Like that we have a really concrete understanding of the full spectrum of our emotions and how they can manifest in our bodies. and then how we can actually do something to validate ourselves through the emotional process. I think that's a beautiful gift that parents can give their children. And when parents do that for themselves and their children, it's a beautiful generational gift.
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