We can't use fear, shame, blame and judgment in our own lives if we want to raise courageous children.
If we want our children to love and accept who they are, our job is to love and accept who we are. Her prescription strikes a chord within us, doesn't it? We know, in our heart of hearts, we cannot give our kids more than we possess. We need to model daring greatly for our kids. They let go of the need to control and to always be “cool.”īrown's prescription is as simple as it is complex: We parents need to be the kind of adults we want our children to grow up to be.They let go of perfectionism and the need for certainty.They let go of worrying what other people think.She also has studied who among us has overcome those feelings of shame and unworthiness and discovered the overcomers share certain characteristics that make them “wholehearted." Things like: She calls it “wholehearted parenting."īrown's research is in the field of “shame and vulnerability." She has studied who among us does not feel worthy of love and burdened by shame. And she devotes an entire chapter of her book describing how to do this in the area of parenting.
We need to “dare greatly” and allow ourselves to be vulnerable. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs … and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.īrown says this speech holds the key to personal success. Brene Brown, highly acclaimed research professor and author, wrote a book entitled "Daring Greatly." The title is based on a passage from a Teddy Roosevelt speech that states, in part:
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