The article emphasizes the crucial role parents play as role models in fostering courage in their children. It highlights the importance of self-reflection for parents to identify what helps them feel steady and brave. By openly sharing personal struggles, parents can teach children that fears can be confronted. The distinction between bravery and courage is discussed, with the notion that courage involves acting in the face of fear. Ultimately, the article underscores that children are observant learners, and how their parents respond to challenges shapes their own emotional resilience.
You may have had one of those common parenting moments when your child repeated some untoward thing you have said - at sometimes the least opportune, most cringe-worthy moment.
Your child's most important model of behavior is you. As parents, we get to hear ourselves played back to us-and it can be rewarding or unsettling.
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