Transforming The Toddler Years- Parents and Educators Raising Calm, Connected, Capable Kids
Jul 7, 2026 · 16 min · 9 segments
**Can the way we talk about pride shape a child's confidence, resilience, and lifelong motivation?** In this episode, we explore the two very different meanings of pride and **why helping children…
That's what this entire company is built on, how we talk to kids and the implications it has for who they are, their identity, their belief system, their moral and value compasses, and then of course, their successful outcomes in school and the world.
Now, for those of you who need to do a little primer in elementary school, and I get it, it's been a long time, a homonym is the same word that has different meanings depending on how you use it.
And today I wanna talk about the word pride, because I've heard a lot lately in the media, I've heard a lot lately through parents and educators, that pride seems to be getting in the way of kids' natural learning capabilities.
So just for the sake of this conversation, let me tell you what I'm not talking about.
I'm talking about the idea that we can either be incredibly proud of ourselves, this deep well that comes from within, the I did that by myself.
Or the other type of pride that actually puts up roadblocks, and that comes from a...
If you look at the people in your life and you're like, "Oh, they're so prideful," what do you really mean? When they interact with you, they think that they know everything, even if they don't.
There is a dark side to this pride thing, and so I wanna unpack that with you a little bit today, because it seems to be where most people these days are putting attention on the word, that there's this negative connotation that someone who is exhibiting pride, oh, watch out for them.
D- you don't engage or distance yourself, because it is going to negatively affect you.
But your job as caregivers, parents, and educators, is to raise kids who are incredibly proud of themselves.
That is where the internal motivation to keep trying, to be gritty, and to learn comes from.
That's what this entire company is built on, how we talk to kids and the implications it has for who they are, their identity, their belief system, their moral and value compasses, and then of course, their successful outcomes in school and the world.
Now, for those of you who need to do a little primer in elementary school, and I get it, it's been a long time, a homonym is the same word that has different meanings depending on how you use it.
And today I wanna talk about the word pride, because I've heard a lot lately in the media, I've heard a lot lately through parents and educators, that pride seems to be getting in the way of kids' natural learning capabilities.
So just for the sake of this conversation, let me tell you what I'm not talking about.
I'm talking about the idea that we can either be incredibly proud of ourselves, this deep well that comes from within, the I did that by myself.
Or the other type of pride that actually puts up roadblocks, and that comes from a...
If you look at the people in your life and you're like, "Oh, they're so prideful," what do you really mean? When they interact with you, they think that they know everything, even if they don't.
There is a dark side to this pride thing, and so I wanna unpack that with you a little bit today, because it seems to be where most people these days are putting attention on the word, that there's this negative connotation that someone who is exhibiting pride, oh, watch out for them.
D- you don't engage or distance yourself, because it is going to negatively affect you.
But your job as caregivers, parents, and educators, is to raise kids who are incredibly proud of themselves.
That is where the internal motivation to keep trying, to be gritty, and to learn comes from.
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