The Conscious Parent

unhealthy habit, perhaps overindulging in food, alcohol, working out, drugs, or medication. In these and other ...

how unconsciously we are behaving and catch ourselves. Maybe we still become anxious over something our child ...

I once worked with a single father, Peter, who was having a particularly hard time with his fifteen-ye ...

into his son’s room, unplugged the computer, then threw it on the floor. When Andrew protested, Peter s ...

Peter had created many negative interpretations around his son’s acting out, all of which were personal. Th ...

events around us. The sad byproduct of this is that our children are left feeling they are the cause of our ...

realized they weren’t holding swords at all. “Oh,” she thought, “they’re not dueling—they’re dancing!” When ...

When we open up internal space, we discover new ways of encountering our children, which is refreshingl ...

naturally picked up on, gearing himself for battle as well. Anxiety is our way of reacting to our mental judgments. ...

exhilarating. Why, then, when it comes to relationships or events in our life are we unable to simply ...

work for the wellbeing of both ourselves and our offspring. ...

S CHAPTER 6 Life Is Wise ince the way we parent mirrors who we are, to alter how we go about bringing up ...

when it treats you kindly. Rather, you see both the dark and the light as opportunities for becoming a more ...

world. If, instead, they observe us flowing with our reality without tightness or heavy-duty mental activity, the ...

state instead of wishing them away, I am honest with her about my own feelings about the situations I ...

contained a powerful lesson for her. Elizabeth and Matthew’s older son, David, is a star basketball pla ...

YOUR CHILD DOESN’T NEED TO EARN YOUR TRUST Because so few really trust the wisdom of life, people tend ...

on our children, hovering over them, or needing to know everything about their world, we communicate a s ...

I assure my daughter, “You will always be okay, no matter what circumstance you find yourself in, bec ...

develop on a spiritual level. When people hear that they might have invited what they see as a neg ...