138: Helping Kids Practice Bravery with Dr. Kathryn Hecht

What if one of the best things you could do for an anxious, frustrated, or struggling kid is...do a little less? I know. Every parenting instinct in us is screaming, “Help them! Fix it! Tell them it’s going to be okay!” But Dr. Kathryn Hecht says there’s a problem with that last one: We’re not wizards. We actually don’t know that everything is going to be okay, and our kids are smart enough to know it too. So what can we say instead? In this episode, Dr. Hecht gives us an incredibly simple fo...