The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children

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Becoming a parent signifies the end of many things: an uninterrupted night’s sleep, the ability to to take a night off at a moment’s notice, and perhaps, your fancy glass. However, when you don’t fuel your pain by either resisting or reacting, but sit with it, it transforms itself into wisdom. It emphasizes the importance of open conversations, teaching children to make wise decisions independently, and accepting their unique talents. As most people don’t understand the basic building blocks of psychology, they forget how their self-conflicts could manifest in their children.

g. react emotionally) or accept the new reality (that includes accepting your feelings and taking a pause). Instead of simply punishing your children’s behaviour, you can use the very situations that are problematic to teach the art of self-reflection, which will open up the path to positive ways of handling situations through problem-solving.

Supporters of conscious parenting believe that this time and struggle is necessary for a child to grapple with important issues that will define them. Importantly, when we live in an egoic state, we don’t see our children (or other people in general) for who they are in their essence.

Wonderful ideas on putting conscious parenting into practice, I've really enjoyed and learned from this book. Children need freedom and should be allowed to express themselves absolutely but they also need boundaries and discipline. When our children realize we are perfectly okay with our okayness, it encourages a feeling of competence within them. Despite her best intentions, Anya entrapped Jessica in the psychological inheritance she had received from her parents, binding heWorking with a coach — especially one that specializes in working parents — can help you stay calm and centered. Most parents are not aware of themselves, and due to a lack of self-consciousness, they fail to connect with their kids on a deeper level.

However, if we depend on our children for approval, this up-ends the normal hierarchy in the family, putting your children in charge of your emotional wellbeing, a job that is unhealthy for them to take on. Empathy requires a willingness to suspend our own feelings so we can align with those of our children. The dynamics, in Tsabary’s explanation, is not one of “otherness,” the basis of traditional parenting, but of “oneness,” which is embodied in conscious parenting.One of the key tenets to conscious parenting is that children are full individuals who have something to teach adults. Shefali’s invaluable book shows how the challenges of parenting can become a great opportunity for spiritual awakening.