Mercury, Tuesday……

Your family is ORGANIC.

It’s a living, growing entity.

While all sane parents want to do what is good and right for their children, we get into trouble in our parenting when we look for sure-fire formulas, quick fixes, rigid rules, easy solutions.

Children enter the organic system jam-packed with POTENTIAL and our challenges as parents are multifold:

To –

• engage without manipulating

• encourage without indulging

• discipline without squelching

• protect without over-or-under protecting

• be aware without prying or policing

• love without worrying

• help without over-functioning

• be present without dominating

• get “out of the way” without disappearing

Your child is probably stronger than you think, more resilient than he or she may appear, and probably wants more and more “space” to be, to grow, to discover, than he or she is letting on.

Posted on December 9, 2019 at 7:21 pm in Difficult Relationships   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL