Ep. 28: Your Child Wants Connection...Promise.

Kids who have been hurt inside connection and relationship protect themselves from getting hurt again.This can leave us feeling that they don't want connection.Which leaves us feeling like we don't want to offer connection.  It starts to hurt too bad to keep offering something so vulnerable when we keep getting rejected.Maybe it would help to know that humans need connection to survive.  Your child may be acting like they don't need or want connection, but they do.In fact, the intensity with which they work to reject connection is the intensity with which they've been hurt in connection.It feels hopeless, sometimes (or much of the time) to love a person who rejects connection.It feels hopeless but it isn't hopeless.  In fact, in this episode I'll tell you what that hopeless really is.Don't forget to hit the subscribe button and add Parenting after Trauma to your podcast player!Then head over to robyngobbel.com/masterclass for a F R E E video series on the three questions we should all be asking ourselves when our kids are behaving in baffling, confusing, frustrating and overwhelming way.***Hey, if you listen to podcasts, you'll probably love listening to Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors on audiobook! Download it on Audible or wherever you get your audiobooks!*** :::::Want to pick Robyn's brain, hang out with her in Zoom meetings and a forum you can access in an app? Come join us in The Club!Are you a professional who wants to support families of kids with big, baffling behaviors? Then Being With is for you!Just need a little extra help? Head to RobynGobbel.com/FreeResources