Parenting Tip of the Week: Normalize Their Experience

Parenting is hard, especially in the busy world that we live in. Applying these small and simple skills each week will help you in your journey of parenting and build connection with your children and/or teens!

Let them know that their feelings are normal and understandable for the situation. Help children and teens to recognize that they’re not alone in their emotional experiences and situations. Sometimes sharing your own emotions and experiences will be helpful and just what that child or teen needs to recognize that what they are experiencing can happen to others and that you get them.

For example, when a teen is anxious about a big test, saying, "It’s totally normal to feel nervous before something important," can help them feel less isolated in their emotions.

Children and teens sometimes need someone’s help in reframing the situation. By looking at their circumstances or experiences through another perspective, just like changing a frame on a picture that they’re holding, they’re able to identify new ways of looking at and working through their difficulties.

Normalizing their experience can reduce shame or confusion around their emotions, fostering resilience and emotional intelligence.

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