Rosie discusses how a seemingly simple question from one of her boys led her to think that really there was a deeper/bigger question being asked - essentially, “what do I have to do for attention, praise, or love?” In spotting that, and nipping that incorrect conclusion in the bud, it struck on an incorrect conclusion she had carried through her life from childhood, and only recently corrected herself.

Listen along as Rosie talks to and comforts her younger, former self (Tiny Psycho Roise) and stays on alert with her own children to try to beat them to their own (incorrect/false) conclusions, so that they don't carry those misunderstandings or "child deduction" into their adult life.

Parenting is already a tall order - raising them, teaching them, trying our best to answer their questions, but what about the questions they don’t ask? The underlying questions they may not even know they’re wondering, and the wrong conclusions they come to trying to put things together. Admittedly, that’s a toughie, but let’s try to be on the lookout for those, and try to cover things just in case. Just in case they’re getting the wrong idea of what they have to do to get love, or to be loved, because what we want more than anything is for them to know that they are loved unconditionally.

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Brought to you by: Lullabies For Parents Vol 1 on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music Featuring guest appearances: Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, Iron & Wine, Alexi Murdoch, William Fitzsimmons, Audrey Assad, Charity from The Head & The Heart, Kanene from The Lone Bellow, Dawn Landes, Denison Witmer, and many more.

Hosted by Rosie Thomas

Produced, Recorded, Edited, and Mixed by Jeff Shoop 

Original Music by Jeff Shoop