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I grew up within the late 80s and 90s. Again then, issues have been loads less complicated. There weren’t any smartphones, and the web was nonexistent. It didn’t really feel as fast-paced and loud as it’s as we speak. Considering again to childhood, I keep in mind enjoying outdoors loads and having sleepovers at my girlfriends’ homes on the weekends after we picked out a film on the native Blockbuster retailer. Life was fairly candy. I hope that’s how everybody feels about their childhood. However possibly I used to be younger, naive, and oblivious to the concerns that adults face. Or possibly I used to be simply actually fortunate that nothing scary had occurred to me at that time in my life.
Immediately, I really feel like we have now a lot extra data out there at our fingertips. We will know what’s happening in each a part of the world immediately on our telephones. Whereas this know-how is superb, it may also be overwhelming. There is no such thing as a denying that everyone knows a lot extra in regards to the world and what can and does occur to folks (good and unhealthy) day by day. It has make clear many issues we might have by no means identified. For example, how we’ve these days seen headlines about horrible issues occurring to youngsters throughout sleepovers. It’s upsetting and disturbing and inflicting dad and mom to debate their youngsters having sleepovers fully.
Immediately’s visitor, Kristin Andrus, is extraordinarily obsessed with this matter. Her household has one large rule: They don’t enable their youngsters to have sleepovers. Some folks disagree wholeheartedly with this rule, whereas others agree together with her stance as a result of they, too, know of scary tales that may occur and have occurred throughout sleepovers. We had Kristin share her ideas and experiences advocating for youngsters on the present.
Who’s Kristin Andrus?
Kristin Andrus is a philanthropist and neighborhood champion who advocates for girls, youngsters, and refugees inside and past Utah. Kristin is the driving drive behind the impactful Constructing Bridges non-profit/philanthropy partnership. She additionally serves as a board member for the Ronald McDonald Home Charities of the Intermountain Space and for UnDEfeated, a corporation serving underprivileged youth and single moms in Uganda. As well as, she holds advisory roles with the First Girl of Utah, Neighborhood Home, the Younique Basis, Utah Valley College, and Ladies Who Succeed. She is a neighborhood activator who believes in constructing bridges and bringing folks collectively to assist communities thrive! Nonprofits rely on Kristin for her social media and advertising and marketing savvy and supernatural capacity to get stuff carried out. She can be the Chief Tradition Officer of her husband and 6 youngsters and an unimaginable prepare dinner!
What Did We Talk about?
On this episode, we chat with Kristin Andrus in regards to the nice sleepover debate — do you have to or do you have to not enable sleepovers together with your youngsters — and how you can make one of the best resolution for your loved ones on the subject of sleepovers. Listed here are a number of of the questions that we lined in our dialog:
- Kristin, are you able to inform us extra about this “sleepover debate?”
- What components ought to dad and mom think about when deciding whether or not to permit their youngster to attend a sleepover? Or permitting any sleepovers in any respect?
- Are you able to elaborate on any statistics which have impacted your stance on sleepovers?
- Are there sure ages or developmental phases when sleepovers could also be kind of acceptable for youngsters?
- If dad and mom do resolve to let their youngster do a sleepover, what necessary conversations must be had upfront with the dad and mom and with their child?
- What steering would you supply dad and mom who might really feel pressured by their youngster or different dad and mom to permit sleepovers regardless of their reservations?
It is a very large and passionate dialog. Whereas a few of my favourite childhood recollections have been sleepovers at my girlfriends’ homes, listening to Kristin’s tales and the stats made me rethink how I’d method this matter with my youngsters after they attain the age of being invited to sleepovers. This episode actually offers us dad and mom data that we have to know and new issues to think about. I’m wondering, the place do you stand on this nice sleepover debate? Share your ideas within the feedback!
Kristin’s Assets
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