Collaborative Parenting With My Child

For this episode we decided Chix would ask me some of the questions she used to struggle with. We hope that our open dialogue about some of these uncomfortable questions will help you and your family navigate this complex topic. She's 9, one of the questions is why not get back together ? The other question is was this the kids fault. Find out how I respond to these questions and more.

This needs no explanation at all, I mean the fact is we will face more rejection in life than acceptance. We are better off learning how to handle rejection without personalising it. Some things are not meant for us and some people aren't meant for us either, it's alright. We want to be in a place were we are celebrated not tolerated.

Dreaded word and verb and yet all of us know someone who has been through it or is going through it. So much harder when children are involved, it's hard to know what to do and when to do it.
Guilt plays such a huge role in this, most of us feel alone in this journey because it is lonely. We hope this lets you know that you are not.

We all have them, we are all entitled to them. We need to be okay sitting in our feelings and emotions especially the uncomfortable ones. One of the topics that's very long as this can be very challenging to discuss with young people. The way we validate our children's emotions determines their security with us. I sure hope this is an ice breaker in teaching and learning feelings and emotions with our children and give them the tools and security necessary to share them and not feel ashamed.

One of the hardest things to teach our beautiful children is self control. Kids are almost wired for immediate gratification which makes this particular subject hard for them to grasp. Even as adults we are still learning self control. This is part I of self control as we explore it from an adult's perspective and a child's
We hope this opens the doors to discussing this very layered topic.