Why Are We So Obsessed With Our Kid's Feelings?
Big Time Adulting
Caitlin Murray
4.9 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
How often do you inquire about your child's feelings and emotions during the day? In this episode, Caitlin delves deeper into one of her most recent viral reels: why we worry so much about our children's feelings and why we're always preoccupied with the idea that what we say or do might negatively impact them. This attentiveness is well intentioned. We want to shape our kids into confident, well-adjusted, and resilient adults. But it's frankly exhausting sometimes. Caitlin suggests that maybe we're overthinking things and reminds listeners that our kids could benefit from figuring out and sitting with their own emotions from time to time. She reminds us that we're already doing a fantastic job and perhaps we could let go of our need to do more and instead recognize the efforts we're already making as parents.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Can someone please tell me when we all became obsessed with how our kids feel about everything all of the time? |
| 0:09.0 | Like, I am doing my best over here, providing love, consistency, hugs, snacks every day. |
| 0:15.7 | And if one of my kids should happen to get fucked up from that somewhere along the way, then so be it. |
| 0:20.2 | Okay, I will cross |
| 0:21.1 | that bridge when I get there. But for now, I'd like to just live my life a little for God's sake |
| 0:26.7 | and stop worrying about all the constant noise out there, making us think we're doing it all wrong. |
| 0:33.4 | Because spoiler alert, kids are going to act like little assholes sometimes no matter what we do. |
| 0:39.0 | I think we might all just need to relax a little bit and calm down about the feelings. |
| 0:43.7 | Maybe just get ourselves a snack. |
| 0:49.7 | Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the Big Time Adulting podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | If you've been listening along, |
| 0:55.6 | we've been playing around with the podcast, doing some new things, having guests come on to |
| 1:01.0 | discuss a big time adulting moment in their lives, something that gave them a mindset shift, |
| 1:07.3 | just a personal raw story. What we're going to continue to do is sort of sprinkle in some |
| 1:13.3 | guests and stories amongst some monologues from me that you're just going to have to |
| 1:18.4 | fucking sit through. Here's the idea behind these monology episodes, working on maybe naming them |
| 1:26.5 | something like a midnight snack or I don't know, |
| 1:30.5 | something clever. |
| 1:31.4 | If you hear this and you have a good idea for it, shoot me a DM or send me an email. |
| 1:37.3 | But basically, when I create a reel on Instagram, it is a rant about something relating to parenting, tucked neatly into a one-minute |
| 1:50.7 | segment. You know, the words that are chosen are intentional and designed to pack punch. And oftentimes, |
| 1:59.5 | I feel like I have a lot more to say about the topics that I |
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