Conscious parenting is a paradigm shift toward more connective, holistic, and natural child-raising.
As we nurture our children in the midst of this unique transitional time in the human story, many families are questioning some of their most basic assumptions about family dynamics and parenting.
Many parents are re-evaluating traditional child-raising paradigms which view parenting through a more hierarchical, behaviouristic lens, and moving towards a more conscious and gentle approach to child-rearing.
What is Conscious Parenting?
Conscious parenting is a paradigm that focuses primarily on the energetic relationship between the parent and child, and is built on a deep respect for human sovereignty, and an honouring of the organic growth process of the child.
Conscious parenting is a philosophy that encourages families to mindfully engage the real processes of life together, trusting the natural path of development for both the child and the parent, as they learn to self-regulate physically, mentally and emotionally in the context of integrated experience.
Conscious parenting is built on an awareness and belief that children are designed to navigate life efficiently, and that we as parents can support them in the rhythms of natural thriving, as we honour the sovereignty and natural design of our child.
Conscious Parenting IS focused on:
- Relational harmony, driven by a positive heart-attachment between parent and child.
- Self-awareness and self-responsibility, embodied and modelled by the parent first.
- Energetic connection, simplicity, and joy.
- Parents really seeing their child and accepting them for who they are, as they are, in each moment.
- Building a relational reservoir of trust between parent and child.
- Self-reflection, and personal healing for the parent.
- Radical honesty and the ability to recognize and shift patterns that do not serve sovereignty and connection within the unique family system.
- Authentically moving through life together, while constantly leaning into our highest potential.
- Unlearning old or familiar coping/family/discipline patterns.
- Healing the traumas and triggers of the parents.
- A gentle parenting approach, embracing kindness, empathy, and softness.
- A radical openness to our child and their unique expression and role on this earth at this time.
- Refusing to let social systems or cultural assumptions determine the timing of our child’s development, or their learning process.
- Using words and energy to guide our child.
- Embracing mindfulness and engaging with our child in the present moment.
- Radical self-control and self-regulation, on the part of the parent.
- Honesty, and emotionally-intelligent communication.
- Dissolving the ego.
- Positive and optimistic view of family life together.
- Resiliency of the human spirit, as we honestly and authentically navigate life together with our children.
- Viewing the child as a valuable teacher in the parent-child relationship.
- Nurturing an atmosphere of physical and emotional safety.
- The parent remaining in the posture of a lifelong learner/student towards their child.
- Parents learning to embody the posture of protector and guide more than the role of primarily an authority figure.
- Leaning into the sovereignty and free-will capacity of ourselves and our children.
Conscious Parenting IS NOT:
- Coercive or controlling.
- About rules and behaviouristic parenting techniques.
- Is not about top-down authority, or parent as the only expert in the relationship.
- Reactionary or fear based parenting.
- Fearful of the future.
- Compliance with social standards of the system.
- Physically punitive.
- Manipulative.
Does Conscious Parenting Work?
Yes! Most emphatically, yes!
Conscious parenting works, because at its core is an energy of trust being woven in the parent-child relationship. When parents consciously support and and initiate their child through the ups and downs of life in an emotionally safe and self-regulated way, the child feels unconditionally loved and does not need to polarize or live in resistance to their parents’ wisdom and guidance.
This provides the safe container for the tender soul of a child to grow and emerge in their own timing, as they are secure in the unconditionally loving attachment that has become the fabric of their life experience with their sovereign-hearted parents.
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