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How do we build resilient children who can handle life's challenges?As parents today, we often feel that our role is to protect our children from the world: to cushion them when they fall, to lift them over obstacles, and to remove sharp rocks from their path. But controlling a child's entire environment and keeping all pain at bay isn't feasible - we can't prepare the world for our children, so instead we should focus on preparing our children for the world. "The solution is not removing impediments from our children's lives," writes Krissy Pozatek, "it is compassionately encouraging them to be brave." We need to show our kids how to navigate their own terrain. If our kids face small hurdles, small pains, at a young age and learn to overcome these obstacles, they will be much better equipped to face larger trouble later in life.
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Krissy Pozatek, LICSW, has fifteen years of experience in wilderness therapy and adolescent treatment. She was educated at Middlebury College, Smith College School for Social Work and NM Highlands University, and is a licensed clinical social worker. In her therapy practice, Parallel Process established in 2006, Krissy works with parents to grow alongside their child in treatment. Krissy grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She lived in the West for 10 years working in adolescent programs, and now lives in Vermont with her husband and two daughters. The Parallel Process is her first book.
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