How Curiosity Transformed Our Parenting Approach
00:00:00.000 | One of the other things I would mention is our kids,
00:00:03.020 | I found it to be really helpful in trying to approach
00:00:06.100 | some of the challenges that they're experiencing
00:00:08.420 | from a place of curiosity.
00:00:10.260 | One of the examples that I experienced
00:00:13.300 | was our four-year-old resisting going to school.
00:00:15.820 | She really just fought it.
00:00:17.540 | She did not want to go into the classroom.
00:00:19.180 | She was not excited when she'd wake up.
00:00:21.220 | So instead of trying to quickly fix the problem,
00:00:24.960 | we approached her from a place of curiosity,
00:00:26.740 | just trying to understand more of the behavior.
00:00:28.580 | So help us understand, like,
00:00:29.940 | why don't you want to go to school?
00:00:31.520 | What's happening right now?
00:00:32.780 | Tell me more.
00:00:33.620 | And I think what we realized is not
00:00:35.340 | that she didn't like school.
00:00:36.780 | She was actually bored.
00:00:38.060 | She didn't feel like she was being challenged.
00:00:39.860 | And that really allowed us to figure out ways
00:00:43.720 | that we could help integrate some of that
00:00:45.780 | into her next school year to ensure
00:00:49.020 | that she was feeling challenged in the right way.
00:00:50.780 | And now she loves school.
00:00:52.140 | So I think to approaching it from a place of curiosity
00:00:55.340 | as opposed to any kind of judgment
00:00:57.460 | and having that open mind allows us and her
00:01:00.940 | to really collaborate and come up with a solution together.