The Conscious Parent

It certainly isn’t out of a lack of love that we impose our will on our children. Rather, it stems from a lack of consciousness. The reality is that many of us are unaware of the dynamics that exist in the relationship we have with our children.

While we believe we hold the power to raise our children, the reality is that our children hold the power to raise us into the parents they need us to become.

conscious parenting goes beyond techniques aimed at fixing a specific behavior, speaking instead to the deeper aspects of the relationship between parent and child.

If you understand that the inappropriate behavior of your children is a call to increased consciousness on your part, you are able to view the opportunities they afford you to grow differently. Instead of reacting to them, you look within yourself and ask why you react. In the asking, you open a space for consciousness to arise.

A certain child enters our life with its individual troubles, difficulties, stubbornness, and temperamental challenges in order to help us become aware of how much we have yet to grow. The reason this works is that our children are able to take us into the remnants of our emotional past and evoke deeply unconscious feelings. Consequently, to unders

The only meaningful way for parent and child to relate is as spiritual partners in mutual spiritual advancement.

Traditionally parenthood has been exercised in a manner that’s hierarchical. The parent governs from the top down.

Often it’s the adjustment of our expectations, rather than reality itself, that’s the hurdle we have to leap.

To shift to a more effective way of relating to our children, we must be willing to face and resolve issues in ourselves that stem from the way we were parented.