I was talking to a friend the other day about gentle parenting and whether it ‘works’. By the word ‘work’ many people mean ‘getting our kids to behave’. Its very easy for us to fall into that perception of our kids, its what mainstream parenting tells us we must do. However, thats not the goal [...]
Mindful Parents often want to know what to do and say to their children in specific situations. There are alot of parenting books, blogs and websites out there telling us. But does this one size fits all parenting philosophy really work?
In this post I want to talk about openness of mind, and how this can lead to more creative and harmonious family relationships. We often are so stuck to our own ideas, so afraid of being wrong we stubbornly defend our position to the exclusion of really listening to another persons opinion, point of view [...]
In this post I want to talk about, how most of us as parents, beat ourselves up when we get things wrong, mess up or want to do things over again with our kids. Its a common symptom to feel bad when we are less than perfect as parents. We feel guilty, we talk negatively [...]
There are many different theories on how to bring up kids out there, from extreme control and authoritarianism, to extreme permissivness and neglect. Most parents fall somewhere along that line. But if you consider a radically different view point for a moment, there is another way that most people don’t even know exists. I like [...]
