This is where we explore the deep, foundational ideas behind peaceful parenting. These posts challenge conventional wisdom and offer a new perspective on the parent-child relationship. If you’re ready to move beyond control and toward connection, this is your starting point.
Peaceful parenting is only possible when we offer ourselves the same compassion we give our children. Discover why Internal Family Systems (IFS) is the perfect framework for true self-regulation. Learn how to stop “managing” your triggered parts so you can show up with the curiosity and calm that your child needs and deserves.
Discover a new parenting paradigm where connection matters more than control. Understand what peaceful parenting is, what it isn’t, and addresses common myths about peaceful parenting. This beginner’s guide explains why behavior is actually communication and how to parent without using violence, shame or punishment.
Dictators require obedient citizens. Democracy requires thinking ones.
We don’t need more rule-followers. We need thinkers. We need disrupters. We need humans brave enough to stand up when everyone else is sitting down.
Many people wonder why children aren’t more respectful toward adults. But the real issue isn’t children’s respect for adults. It’s whether adults are modeling and showing genuine respect toward children. In families, respect is learned from the top down: children mirror the way they are treated by the adults in their lives.
When a child is raised with regular, ongoing evaluations of what’s wrong with them, what they have to be ashamed of, how they “always” talk or act or behave in some way that is judged to be negative, how do you think that child is going to grow up to see themselves? Those negative evaluations…
It’s amazing to me how society teaches children to self-blame for the difficulties and struggles the parents go through. The kinds of comments and attitude you see in discussions of raising children are so often something like: “I don’t know how they ever put up with me as a child” “I was such a spoiled…