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

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.