Breaking Bread Podcast
Helping our Kids Explore their Identity
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:29:01
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Synopsis
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: