Heres a parenting philosophy I can get behind --- the Slow Family Living Movement (co-founded by Carrie Contey, PhD). What is it? Heres an excerpt: Gaining clarity around where you are and where you would like to go as a parent is the key to healthy, sustainable relationships with your children AND a massive opportunity for profound personal growth. This is the foundation of conscious parenting. Conscious parenting is a way of being – not a method or style of parenting. Its about being awake and alive to the experience of connecting with yourself and your growing people in the midst of the parenting journey. Conscious parenting uses your thoughts and feelings to discover who YOU are. Then you connect with, see, and accept who your children really are and can offer support and inspiration as they unfold into their most authentic, healthy, and whole selves. Its about constantly asking the four big questions: • What do I need? • What does each child need? • What does our partnership need? • What does our family need? Conscious parenting is... Tuning in to your feelings. Doing what feels right to you. Finding ways to move toward balance. Choosing connection. Living with joy and gratitude. Letting your love spill out all over the place. Adopting an attitude of self-reflection. Having loads and loads of compassion for yourself, your partner, and your children. Conscious parenting recognizes that there is no such thing as a perfect parent or a perfect child… and yet, when you really stop and think about it, its all perfect in its own way.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:28:27 +0000
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