32. Building Trust: How to Teach Your Kids to Earn and Navigate It

Whatever with Heather - Mindset, Parenting & Personal Growth

Learn how to teach your children to navigate trust... how to build it, and why it's really hard when you break it.
Learn:

• How trust is different.
• What happens when trust is broken.
• How our love for our children is the same, but our trust may be different.
• How to teach trust to your children.
  • Trust levels are different for different things.
  • If they want trust, then they have to BUILD trust.
  • Trust is built by CONSISTENT actions that show you are trustworthy.
  • If you don’t build trust, or destroy trust in one area, you will have to work to re-build that trust. And it will be harder to re-build each time (like bricks for a house, the first time they come in a nice stack, but re-building if the house is knocked over is more work).
  • If one child builds trust... And one doesn’t. There will be different privileges given to different children.
• Teaching Your Children: We don’t expect you to be perfect. But we do expect you to be honest.
  • You will make mistakes. Own it (teaching ownership while young).
  • If you lie or are dishonest about something, remember that you are choosing to destroy trust. Trust that you will have to re-build.