Joy Based Parenting: I won’t do it

Ahhhh……. Being with myself while being with my daughter in her “no” can bring up all kinds of things in my internal world. The one thing, I often forget is she feels the same way when I throw my “no” around without considering how it affects her.
Learning to sit with my own [...]

Love-Based Parenting Example 2

I have a very strong need to be “heard”. When I was growing up we called my dad the “deaf ear”. When you were talking with him about something he didn’t like or wasn’t interested in he would actually sit there and act like he didn’t hear you. I could talk till [...]