Only 3,000 Words: Why Emotion-Heavy Parenting Is Failing Functional Kids
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Only 3,000 Words: Why Emotion-Heavy Parenting Is Failing Functional Kids
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In this explosive episode of Family Matters with Instructor Mike, we dismantle one of the biggest lies in modern parenting: that emotional expression is enough.
With only around 3,000 emotionally labeled words out of 170,000 in the English language, most of our communication is built on function—not feelings. But we’re front-loading children with emotion-first language and then wondering why they struggle with focus, decision-making, and accountability.
Instructor Mike breaks it all down:
• Why feelings belong in the background, not the foreground
• The danger of raising emotionally expressive but functionally weak kids
• How to retrain your parenting language using repetition, structure, and problem-solving
• Tools to defend against well-meaning teachers who unknowingly center emotion over execution
If you’re tired of soft skills without structure, therapy talk without traction, and emotional overload in education—this episode is your wake-up call.
Because it’s not that your kids don’t feel enough…
It’s that we forgot to teach them what to do with what they feel.
🎧 Listen now and get trained.