Developing resiliency, cultivating trust, and being curious with our kids (with Dr. Laura Fleetwood)
People think kids today are soft but in reality they haven’t had the chances to build resiliency in the ways past generations did. Dr. Laura Fleetwood has done extension research into developing resliency in adolescent aged (8-12) girls.
In this week’s episode, Dr. Laura talks with us about how we can help kids strengthen their resiliency muscles, develop personal independence in healthy ways, and understand their stress responses.
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About the Guest
Laura Fleetwood offers communication consulting for nonprofits and mission-focused businesses at laurafleetwoodconsulting.com and helps females learn how to holistically manage stress at seekingthestill.com. She founded the non-profit, A Million Messy Miracles in 2024 as part of her doctoral work with the goal of sharing stress resilience tools to one million early adolescent girls and their moms in her lifetime. Learn more at twirlworkshop.com.
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Research articles mentioned:
https://www.dove.com/us/en/campaigns/purpose/confident-sports.html
https://womeninsport.org/news/more-than-1-million-teenage-girls-fall-out-of-love-with-sport/
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