Nick StumboExecutive Director driving healing from sexual brokenness

Why It's Important To Let Your Kid's Make Decisions

27 May 2024

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A short YouTube monologue (by Nick Stumbo) about parenting: inviting children into decision-making builds agency and confidence. The speaker offers an anecdote about their mother asking for opinions and describes practical prompts—open-ended questions and invitations for feedback (e.g., “What do you think?” or “What would be most helpful?”)—as tools to involve kids in decisions.

Something that my mom did really well. She would ask our opinion on things, she would invite us into the decision making process, which gave us agency and I think trained us to feel confident making decisions. And I feel like that's something that you're talking about with asking those open ended questions. It's also inviting their feedback into the conversation, like, what do you think in this situation? What would be most helpful in this environment, that kind of thing.