Essentials for parenting

This children are at risk of internalizing a lasting and highly damaging sense of shame – a sense that they’re somehow “lacking” compared to more outgoing siblings and peers.

• Value your child His experience of the world may be different from yours
• Validate your child All of them eventually notice that they are different from other kids.
• Protect your child don’t let others pressure your child to do something he or she is not ready to do.
• Accept that a slower pace means peace
• Cultivate patience