Published: Jan. 16, 2023, 10 a.m.
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Episode Highlights With Bryana
- What makes conscious parenting different from other approaches
- How focusing on ourselves and our own emotional reactions and behaviors as parents is a more effective long term approach and is relationship first
- Focusing on \\u201chow am I managing myself\\u201d as a marker of effective parenting
- The magic of taking a pause during heated emotional encounters with our kids
- How to understand what is getting in the way of being able to model these behaviors for our kids
- What to do when \\u201cmy kids will only listen to me if I am screaming\\u201d
- Love withdrawal - what it is and why it is so painful to children, and how to break the pattern
- The importance of saying sorry to our kids when we mess up without needing to defend our behavior
- What a real apology and repair looks like
- Why conscious parenting isn\\u2019t just permissive parenting or falsely happy parenting
- No parent has an intention to hurt their child but the impact is outside our control and how to understand this dynamic
- How our relationship with our kids sets the stage for how they will exist in relationship for the rest of their lives
- What boundaries are and how to effectively communicate them
- Why if boundaries don\\u2019t come from a place of kindness, they are actually about control
- Phrases like \\u201cI can\\u2019t let you\\u201d and \\u201cshow me another way\\u201d for boundaries with young children
- Why children need to understand the alternative when we put limits on their behavior
- When we withdraw love, children will default to loving and trusting the parent even at the expense of self love and self trust
- Trust is the first psychosocial milestone in a baby or toddler
- Parenting is the opportunity to re-parent and become the parent you never had
- \\u201cI am not raising you to be the person I want or expect you to be\\u2026 I am raising you to be who you are\\u201d
- What it means to be a cycle breaker in our parenting
- Specific tips for bedtime struggles and reframing what this experience is like for kids
- Strategies for tantrums that actually work - and how to focus on actually being with the child so they learn this internal skill
- Approaching parenting struggles with curiosity instead of being critical
Resources We Mention
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