Who is your children’s worst critic?
Would it surprise you to know it’s probably your children themselves?
Often the most incriminating things that our children hear come from the negative self-talk inside their own heads. And we can’t protect them from what we don’t hear, can we?
As it turns out, we can.
The key to helping our children break out of this habit is to teach them to see it, to own it, and to banish it from their world.
Here is a very simple and effective formula for doing just that, called the SOFT process:
See those negative thoughts for what they are
Observe the caller ID of the thoughts in your head
Flip the negative to the positive
Throw those mean words away
Let’s take a look in more detail.