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In the Spotlight: Parenting
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This month, we are shining the light on NVC and parenting. Roxy Manning explores the importance of Navigating Parenthood with Compassion and Realistic Expectations. Then in Parenting with Purpose, she discusses the connection between the challenges parents face with their children and the qualities they want them to develop. 

 

Miki Kashtan, Arnina Kashtan, and Lisa Rothman dive into Parenting without Obedience: An Introduction to Intergenerational Collaboration in this full 5-session course.

 

In Parenting for Connection with Eddie Zapca, he explores how guessing your child's feelings and needs opens the door to understanding what's behind their behavior. Learn how to Understand Requests and Demands, and how to Parent with NVC with Inbal Kashtan. And Aya Caspi discusses Becoming Allies for Our Kids.

In parenting, Roxy Manning notes the tendency for self-judgment and external judgment. Roxy suggests that being a single parent or a working parent influences your ability to implement parenting strategies. The importance of assessing the feasibility of strategies in one's current life context is emphasized. Roxy encourages self-compassion and mourning the gap between desired and achievable outcomes. Her message encourages understanding personal constraints and practicing self-compassion in parenting.

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Roxy Manning discusses the connection between the challenges parents face with their children and the qualities they want them to develop. She highlights the importance of aligning actions with desired outcomes, using the example that if parents value independence, they should encourage choice rather than demanding compliance. She encourages parents to consider the long-term impact of their parenting choices on shaping their children's future behavior.

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5 - 7 minutes

10/5/2023

By guessing our child's feelings and needs we open the door to understanding what's behind their behavior, and can better suggest solutions that meet both their and our own needs. In this way we build trust and their desire to seek us out in times of need. Expressing our own feelings and needs also allows us to help them understand the value in fulfilling tasks or requests.

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Inbal speaks to a group about our habit of demanding something of our children but making it sound like a request, the components of a true request and the importance of being honest when making a demand.

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This article aims to discuss shifting fully from power-over to sharing power in families; turning power struggles into dilemmas.  It focuses on the topic of living in a partnership paradigm as a family...

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Aya Caspi, a Certified NVC Trainer discusses how the "story" we tell ourselves about human nature impacts our childhood and the roles we are taught to play in society.

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