Coach Sheri Gazitt is the Founder of Teen Wise and Mom Wise. She is an advocate of teen mental wellness and helps parents navigate the ups and downs of adolescence. In this week’s episode, Sheri talks about how to not get suckered into peer pressure as a parent. It’s easy to compare your child’s progress with other children in your community, but that extra stress can really affect the critical developmental years of your child!
Key Takeaways
- There is such a thing as parent peer pressure.
- What are your parenting values?
- Sheri believes every parent should be compassionate and should have it as one of their values.
- It’s easy to compare your child’s progress with other children. The parent journey is always going to be different.
- What we are feeling and experiencing also gets passed down to our children.
- How do you stay true to your values when you’re around competitive parents?
- Nobody puts their parenting struggles on Facebook.
- How do you listen to your own intuition as a parent and not get swayed by friends and family?
- Remember, there is no one size fits all to parenting.
- You’re doing the best that you can. We make mistakes. Let’s just learn from them.
- People aren’t perfect, but when you love and care for each other, you work together to make things right.
- When you’re parenting out of fear, you’re parenting from a very primal place and that’s not healthy.
- Forget what college your child is going to. Instead, foster an environment of positive learning.
- Sheri shares the difference between expectations vs. values.
- At the end of the day, your children have to find their own path in life.
Quotes:
“What are your values? They’re different for everybody.”
“Everybody wants their kid to feel loved. They want their kid to be happy, and their mental health to be good.”
“We have to parent from a place of love and turn off the noise.”
