The journey towards peaceful parenting is not always smooth or easy. The first step is to be more aware of your own fight-or-flight reactions towards your kids so you can choose not to act on them. Another critical element is to form a stronger connection with your children. Other parts of the process include teaching your children better ways to deal with their own grievances, as well as learning to set limits before you get angry and focusing more on repairing damage rather than punishing.

Key Takeaways:

• For a parents who wants the aha experience in parenting, it is recommended that he or she changes his parenting approach.
• Even while shifting parenting approach, one can still experience bumps in the parenting journey but that doesn’t mean he or she is doing anything wrong.
• When one has changed parenting approach, he or she should remember that the child hasn’t changed his reaction so they might tend to rebel as in the past.

“The “peace” in peaceful parenting comes from you. Specifically, from your commitment to regulate your own emotions. That means that when you feel upset, you stop, drop your agenda (temporarily), and breathe.”

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