The video quickly went viral with over 1.1 million views and 100k likes. I want to know more about what matters to you. Tell me about your hopes and dreams for your life. Your worth is not determined by your productivity, job title, or your relationship status. My life changed for the better because you are in it. I'm here to listen if you want to tell me about it. I'm sorry for any parenting choices I made that hurt you. Verbal affirmations for children and adult children
Schmidt is an international best-selling author, motivational speaker, mindset coach and mindfulness teacher with two grown children of her own - so she knows a think or two about families, communication, and healing. The video is a great reminder for current, in-the-trenches parents who may need some guidance on encouraging, loving things to say to their kids, and also a deeply healing and rectifying journey for any adult children who never got that kind of verbal affirmation from their parents as a child. TikTok creator Barb Schmidt who goes by on TikTok, shared her list of the “7 Things Adult Children May Need to Hear” from their parents, and it quickly went viral as adult children identified with some of the messages that they have missing from their lives.
With the trend of mindful or gentle parenting going strong, phrases such as “I’m so proud of you,” or even “I love you,” are typically everyday phrases in a household.Īnd while there is no perfect way to encourage, raise, and love a child, there are definitely some things that the older generations of parents might have been lacking in when it came to a nurturing, cared-for environment in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.įor some adult children, there are verbal affirmations that were rarely (or never) uttered in their home growing up that would still mean so much if said to them today.
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