Family connection and parenting
Heal your relationship with yourself and see how your children become more relaxed and communicative. Watch your partner relate to you differently, and see your family prosper and thrive in an atmosphere of peace and joy.
Parenting is an issue that is extremely close to my heart. The book that I would like to write is called "Parenting for Lasting Relationships". When my children were babies I saw my job is providing them with what they needed. They needed food, and I also believed that their need for their parent was as real as their need for food. They needed a lot of physical contact and a lot of interaction. They were like a little learning machines and a little love bubbles who needed to have that reflected back to them with love and joy. No one in the world could be as overjoyed as their parent to hear them say "MAMA!! PAPA!!"
Once they turned into little kids, I saw my job as being their ally. If they wanted to do something, then I wanted to help them do it. If there was some sort of strife, I wanted them to know that they were understood. I did not see my job as teaching them to be independent, or teaching them to behave in a certain way. I felt sure, and still do, that if those basic needs are fully met, that little people just want to learn and grow and be happy. They love their family. They want to fit in with their little social circles and when they are nurtured they do so easily.
So, what could possibly get in the way of such an idyllic picture? Well, maybe a lot of things. These are the things that a parent can tap on, and these are the things that will offer the parent avenues for deep profound healing experiences. Most of us did not have an ideal childhood, and we do not want to repeat the same mistakes that were made at our expense. We do not want to be carrying old hurts and frustrations, negative beliefs about ourselves and our abilities into our roles as mothers and fathers.
Parenting is an issue that is extremely close to my heart. The book that I would like to write is called "Parenting for Lasting Relationships". When my children were babies I saw my job is providing them with what they needed. They needed food, and I also believed that their need for their parent was as real as their need for food. They needed a lot of physical contact and a lot of interaction. They were like a little learning machines and a little love bubbles who needed to have that reflected back to them with love and joy. No one in the world could be as overjoyed as their parent to hear them say "MAMA!! PAPA!!"
Once they turned into little kids, I saw my job as being their ally. If they wanted to do something, then I wanted to help them do it. If there was some sort of strife, I wanted them to know that they were understood. I did not see my job as teaching them to be independent, or teaching them to behave in a certain way. I felt sure, and still do, that if those basic needs are fully met, that little people just want to learn and grow and be happy. They love their family. They want to fit in with their little social circles and when they are nurtured they do so easily.
So, what could possibly get in the way of such an idyllic picture? Well, maybe a lot of things. These are the things that a parent can tap on, and these are the things that will offer the parent avenues for deep profound healing experiences. Most of us did not have an ideal childhood, and we do not want to repeat the same mistakes that were made at our expense. We do not want to be carrying old hurts and frustrations, negative beliefs about ourselves and our abilities into our roles as mothers and fathers.