If your child goes from being corrected to “I'm the worst child ever!” this video is for you. Hearing my 8yo yell this with desperation from her bed just about broke me. I have never taught a perfection mindset in our home and we all know I'm nowhere near perfect. I have tried to model making mistakes, self-correction and apologizing as often as I could and, yet, here I am listening to my daughter tear herself apart of a simple misunderstanding with her sisters. Have you heard of slumberkins!? Slumberkins are a social-emotional tool born from a teacher and a counselor to support our children in exploring the world of feelings. Together, my daughter and I opened her Yak (The Slumberkin all about knowing we're enough just by being us) and read the story together. The page that stuck out to her the most (and left me over the moon) was one that read, “I used to think that when I was small, I had to be perfect with no mistakes at all. But then I learned that wasn't true. You are loved and enough just by being you.” Watching her eyes light up really said it all. Even though I constantly reinforce that it's okay to make mistakes, this is what really hit home. Use code mindfulasamother to get 15% off your very own slumberkins this Christmas BUT ALSO- get our mini series on Responsive Parenting Your Neurodivergent Child, available now. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria uodates droping tomorrow 12/1/23. #MindfulAsAMother #NeurodivergentChildren #responsiveparenting #consciousparenting #counselorsoftiktok #neurodivergentparenting #rejectionsensitive #rejectionsensitivedysphoria #audhd #audhdtok