Peaceful parenting is not just about behavior management. It is about understanding the internal parts that cause us to check out or shut down. Here is why willpower fails and how Internal Family Systems (IFS) provides the missing key to self-regulation.
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…
Other than becoming a dad, here is a short list of things that have changed my life for the better. Counting backwards in terms of priority. #7 The decision to change It all started with a decision. A realization that I wasn’t happy, that I didn’t like how things were going in my life, that…