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Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids
A very powerful form of validation is to simply bear witness to your child’s struggles without automatically trying to solve them.
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"It seems like, at least in these early years, the parents' role is to communicate with the child and let them know, 'I'm here for you when you're upset, when you need me. And when you don't need me, I'm your cheerleader,' " says Lee Raby, a psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Delaware who led the study.