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I grew up within the late 80s and 90s. Again then, issues have been lots easier. There weren’t any smartphones, and the web was nonexistent. It didn’t really feel as fast-paced and loud as it’s right now. Considering again to childhood, I keep in mind taking part in outdoors lots 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 perhaps I used to be younger, naive, and oblivious to the concerns that adults face. Or perhaps I used to be simply actually fortunate that nothing scary had occurred to me at that time in my life.
Right this moment, I really feel like we now have a lot extra data obtainable at our fingertips. We will know what’s occurring in each a part of the world immediately on our telephones. Whereas this know-how is superb, it will also be overwhelming. There isn’t a denying that everyone knows a lot extra concerning the world and what can and does occur to individuals (good and unhealthy) every day. It has make clear many issues we might have by no means identified. As an illustration, how we’ve recently seen headlines about horrible issues occurring to youngsters throughout sleepovers. It’s upsetting and disturbing and inflicting mother and father to debate their children having sleepovers totally.
Right this moment’s visitor, Kristin Andrus, is extraordinarily captivated with this subject. Her household has one massive rule: They don’t enable their youngsters to have sleepovers. Some individuals 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 group champion who advocates for ladies, 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 Girls Who Succeed. She is a group activator who believes in constructing bridges and bringing individuals collectively to assist communities thrive! Nonprofits rely on Kristin for her social media and advertising and marketing savvy and supernatural means to get stuff carried out. She can be the Chief Tradition Officer of her husband and 6 youngsters and an unimaginable cook dinner!
What Did We Talk about?
On this episode, we chat with Kristin Andrus concerning the nice sleepover debate — do you have to or do you have to not enable sleepovers along with your children — and learn how to make the very best resolution for your loved ones relating to sleepovers. Listed below 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 mother and father contemplate 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 roughly applicable for youngsters?
- If mother and father do resolve to let their youngster do a sleepover, what necessary conversations must be had upfront with the mother and father and with their child?
- What steering would you provide mother and father who might really feel pressured by their youngster or different mother and father to permit sleepovers regardless of their reservations?
It is a very massive 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 would strategy this subject with my children once they attain the age of being invited to sleepovers. This episode actually provides us mother and father data that we have to know and new issues to think about. I ponder, the place do you stand on this nice sleepover debate? Share your ideas within the feedback!
Kristin’s Assets
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