Parenting with Loving Kindness Instead of Fear
Join me in the first episode of season 6 as I talk about how you can resolve conflict of needs (your's and your child's) through understanding and connection. The focus of this episode will be on parenting with loving kindness instead of fear, fear that is communicated through threats.
When you parent with loving kindness, your relationship with your child strengthens. Although, it will take time, in fact years of consistently meeting your child’s needs in loving kind ways, there are steps you can take that will guide you. I'll mention these steps in the episode.
Key Points From This Episode:
- The focus of Mindful Mondays.
- Introducing today’s topic: parenting through love instead of fear.
- The opposite of parenting with loving-kindness: threats.
- The negative effect of fear on a child.
- An example of a scenario where you can choose to parent with kindness.
- The importance of understanding why your child has a negative response to an instruction.
- Some helpful steps to parent mindfully.
- Step one: pause to reflect and gather yourself.
- Step two: connect then connect with touch.
- Step three: validate your child’s feelings.
- Step four: hold a boundary if needed.
- Step five: connect and comfort.
- Step six: restate the boundary if needed.
- Step seven: follow through with loving words and actions.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
The Three Little Deers and the Great Storm
