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Helping our Kids Explore their Identity
Manage episode 422926870 series 99721
Exploration is a prerequisite to having a settled identity. For parents with kids unsettled and exploring, this can be a frightening time. What role do we play in the exploration process? In this episode of Breaking Bread, Kathy Knochel and Brian Sutter will help us sort it out.
Show notes:
Identity:
Is the sense of self – Who I am and who I am not.
Identity Formation:
Starts with exploration and ends with commitment.
Exploration is trying, investigating, experiencing, researching.
Commitment is being settled, resolved and grounded.
Identity Culture in “the west”:
It is constructed individually. This means that the community has a limited influence on placing an identity on an individual. Rather, the individual has the ownness of discovering and embracing their identity.
Challenge:
Our young people are saddled with the task of sorting out their identity for themselves.
Angst:
Watching young people explore their identity.
Opportunity:
Support and guide exploration in community.
As possible, try not to rigidly force closure on those in the exploration phase. Rather, have dialogue that prompts healthy exploration. Thoughtful open-ended questions, and critical thinking prompts are necessary to guide wise investigation.
Have patience in the process with a goal to maintain relationship.
Fear:
Suppose an unwise identity is chosen?
Remember: Where there is life, there is experience. Where there is experience, there is exploration. Where there is exploration, there is hope yet for a good commitment.
232 episodes
Manage episode 422926870 series 99721
Exploration is a prerequisite to having a settled identity. For parents with kids unsettled and exploring, this can be a frightening time. What role do we play in the exploration process? In this episode of Breaking Bread, Kathy Knochel and Brian Sutter will help us sort it out.
Show notes:
Identity:
Is the sense of self – Who I am and who I am not.
Identity Formation:
Starts with exploration and ends with commitment.
Exploration is trying, investigating, experiencing, researching.
Commitment is being settled, resolved and grounded.
Identity Culture in “the west”:
It is constructed individually. This means that the community has a limited influence on placing an identity on an individual. Rather, the individual has the ownness of discovering and embracing their identity.
Challenge:
Our young people are saddled with the task of sorting out their identity for themselves.
Angst:
Watching young people explore their identity.
Opportunity:
Support and guide exploration in community.
As possible, try not to rigidly force closure on those in the exploration phase. Rather, have dialogue that prompts healthy exploration. Thoughtful open-ended questions, and critical thinking prompts are necessary to guide wise investigation.
Have patience in the process with a goal to maintain relationship.
Fear:
Suppose an unwise identity is chosen?
Remember: Where there is life, there is experience. Where there is experience, there is exploration. Where there is exploration, there is hope yet for a good commitment.
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