What is Conscious Parenting?
Jun 26, 2024
Conscious parenting is about being present with your children. Being mindful of their wants and needs. Encompassing emotional awareness and empathy. Parenting yourself so you can better parent your children. Putting yourself in their shoes. It's being intentional about the way you behave as a parent, the way you react in all situations and what you're also asking of them each and every day...
It’s a conscious decision you’re making over and over again, every single morning when you wake up, with everything you do throughout the day that involves them. Whether it’s how you greet your child(ren) in the morning, how you ask them to get ready for the day (or how you help or encourage them to get ready for their day), how you figure out what to make for breakfast and how you are making it (they're always watching), how your interactions are before sending them off to school or elsewhere, how you speak about others in front of them, how you speak about them in front of others, how you are with your spouse/partner, what you decide to say and what you decide to not say out loud (because they’re always listening), these conscious decisions are yours to make all the way through bedtime with how you put them to bed at night and what their final thoughts or feelings are (and how you've impacted them) before they fall asleep...
Being a conscious parent and making conscious decisions all day is a lot of work and it has to be intentional. So what are your intentions as a parent? How do you want to raise your child? What do you want them to remember as adults? How do you want to make them feel? Conscious parenting also has to come from a genuine, authentic place within and remember, it is a journey, not a perfect one but a wonderful (ongoing learning) journey where you get to show up and do better for them... and doing better for them is doing better for YOU and ultimately giving the world a better future - filled with more conscious adults who then pass that on to their children for generations to come. THAT is Conscious Parenting.
XO Stefanie McAuliffe