Conscious Parenting

Science has kept our attention focused on the notion of genetic determinism, leaving us ignorant of the influences beliefs have on our lives, and more importantly, how our behaviours, attitudes and beliefs, program the lives of our children (Bruce Lipton, MD)

Conscious Parenting is one of the most wonderful skillls to learn. I believe that it is THE most important skill to learn towards becoming healthy parents. It is a most effective way of assisting you to make real choices about parenting in a confident loving and consisten way.

Conscious Parenting is not a guide book or 'how to' of parenting. There are already quite a number of quality books on this topic.

Consciou Parenting teaches you how to raise healthy children by being healthy parents. Secondly, it builds on the understanding that children learn from you, their parents, from the very beginning of life. Conscious Parenting attempts to align your 'intention' for parenting with your parenting skills and resources and actions! It's great stuff!!

Conscious Parenting workshops build on the understanding that:

• How you parent is largely dependent on your internal beliefs around parenting behaviours/meanings/actions
• Your children will listen, learn, copy and adapt to behaviours and beliefs about the world and themselves from the very beginning of life, including pregnancy. Although they look very small and unknowing, cuddly and cute... these gorgeous little people are already very clever at understanding the world through those closest to them – you!
• At the subconscious level, your own 'rules' and 'beliefs' around parenting, and parenting behaviour, was largely formed when you were aged between 1 and 7
• It is widely understood that in the day-to-day (and particularly during stress) parents’ actions don’t always align with their parenting (personal) intentions (how they ‘really want’ to parent)
  

Conscious parenting is about understanding what your underlying (learnt) behaviours and beliefs around parenting are, and aligning these with your conscious ‘adult’ intention today. There are no ‘bad’ parents! However, there are inner beliefs that do not support healthy parenting. Most often, parents raise children with the intention of creating loved, nurtured, stable and intelligent children. As parents we may set out to be calm, consistent, nurturing, loving, solid, patient, firm and kind. Very simply, conscious parenting is about getting the understanding that YOU need in order for you to carry out your intention as a parent – whatever that looks like for you.

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