@drbeckyatgoodinside: One of the best things you can do when your kid says “I don’t know” is not give the answer. We don’t need to give them our good ideas. We need to help them tolerate the moments when they don’t have any yet. I’m a big fan of side-door strategies. Sometimes the side door is a TV show you’re already watching together. It lets you bring up something you want to talk about without it feeling like a lecture. Take this episode of @dooziesdoghouse, for example, as a way to model frustration tolerance for your kid. When Doozie can’t figure out what to put on her t-shirt, try: “So hard when you want to have an idea and you don’t. I sometimes feel like that too.” Then stop talking. That’s the whole intervention. Remember this: every time we rush in with an idea, we might accidentally teach our kids, “When I don’t know, someone else knows better. #NetflixPartner

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