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Cathy and Todd share a letter from a listener whose son discovers himself through dance, and how this discovery leads to self-aware parenting. It’s an inspirational and emotional story about how to create a connected relationship with your child – you don’t want to miss it. Steve is the father in this story has a part-time photography business which can be found here. Cathy and Todd also discuss Pixar’s Inside Out. See Soren dance below…
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Cathy & Todd,
I enjoyed the latest podcast about Steven & Soren. I think we all want our kid to have the drive and grit that Soren had. I think we all want to have the relationship with our kids that they have. What if we have the other kid? The kid that stayed in the car that doesn’t know what he wants to do?
Our 12 year old son, Truman, has been playing football since 1st grade. He’s pretty indifferent to the sport and most things in general. We don’t watch many sports in our home because we’re busy with four kids and not really interested in sitting for hours watching sports, etc. We think he enjoys being with a couple of his friends on the team but he doesn’t really open up about it. If we said in July “Truman, do you want to play football this year.” He would say “no.” Lacrosse “no.” Piano lessons “no.” He says “Airsoft (shooting plastic bb’s at people) is a sport. Playing video games is considered a sport on Twitch TV. Why can’t I do that.” So on and so forth. He would love to sit in front of his XBox and play fortnite with his friends all day. We’re concerned that this will lead to an unhealthy lifestyle.
We allow his sisters to do drama and dance to “stay busy” even though they’re not really in a sport. These girls stay fit in other ways by doing a workout, walking on a treadmill, or playing with friends. His eight year old brother with ADHD is trying football this year and soccer in the spring and is pretty carefree as well about the whole process. Not sure which direction he will go with either. We also have to try and keep things relatively close to home(within a 30 minute drive) since we both work and all four kids are in some sort of an activity.
Do you have any suggestions as to how to guide these kinds of kids to choose an activity that brings them joy as dancing has brought joy to Soren?