The Power of Words: Stop Diagnosing Your Children (and Yourself)

We've gotten alarmingly comfortable slapping diagnoses on our kids: ADD, anxiety, defiance, you name it, often for behavior that's just a child being a child inside a system that sets them up to struggle. This week I make the case I've been building toward for a year: the words we speak over our children don't just describe them, they help create who they become. A casual label is a verdict dressed up as an observation. The harder, more hopeful truth is that the work was never your child's to do alone. It's yours. You're the problem, which means you're also the answer.