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Attachment and Connection as a Foundation for Parenting--and Life!

Ingrid shares about the three primary keys of parenting & NVC, two child rearing models, developmental needs for children and how to foster secure attachment. {attachment:all} Keywords: parenting trust self compassion listening judgment healing connection compassion self empathy presence Attachment Theory attachment attachment parenting children childhood childrearing child Ingrid Bauer
Navigating Parenthood with Compassion and Realistic Expectations

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...
Everyday Parenting Challenges

In this audio download, Ingrid Bauer guides parents to navigate everyday parenting challenges using the NVC model, such as the behavior of a frustrated child, a messy room, transition times and a child who collapses when things don’t work out as she had hoped. When parents integrate NVC into their parenting style, they build lifelong relationships with their children upon a foundation of trust...
Parenting with Nonviolent Communication

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... Read this article Keywords: family parenting parents authoritarian parenting permissive parenting children kids power over unilateral decisions power struggle obedience punitive punishment force reward coercion power with shared power...
Parenting for Connection

When I was a boy I received a King Kong action figure for my birthday. At that time I really liked King Kong and this gift was very special. While playing with my toy I soon found out that my little brother (around 3 years old) was afraid of my King Kong doll. So like a good big brother I ran around the house scaring him by showing him the doll and by roaring like King Kong. My brother, of...
Parenting from Your Heart - Q&A

September 6, after seven years of living with ovarian cancer.As a way of honoring Inbal, we're offering her last training with us free to anyone. She offered this Q&A session in our 2013 Parenting Conference. At the time, Inbal was in the throes of her cancer treatments and it had been her first training in a few years. Her big heart and bright spirit shine through in this Q&A. If you've worked...
Parenting Series: When Your Child Only Has "No" for an Answer

In this video download, expert parent trainer and author of Parenting From Your Heart, Inbal Kashtan responds to the age-old question: “Why do children do things to annoy parents?” Using jackal and giraffe puppets to illustrate common parent/child dialogues, Inbal answers other common questions like: What do I do when my child is “obstinate?” Why does my child thrive on not participating? Why...
Compassionate Parenting Starts With Self-Acceptance

Without self-acceptance any attempt at growth and transformation, even while parenting, can easily become a path to self-judgments and another yardstick against which to measure ourselves as falling short. Instead, we can practice 1 minute a day or more, or while doing other tasks, to develop the self-compassion and self-acceptance needed to grow both new habits and our capacity to meet our...
The Basics of Partnership Parenting Using NVC

nurture a relationship with your child based on connection, trust and everyone's needs mattering? Would you love to learn ways to ground your responses to in-the-moment triggers in your deeper parenting values? Do you want to deepen self-connection and balance your own needs with your child's more compassionately? Each session recording includes a teaching piece on a parenting theme, as well as...
Flexible Parenting

Roxy Manning discusses the tendency to get attached to certain parenting strategies for control and emphasizes the importance of attuning to the child's needs rather than imposing fixed ideas of right or wrong. Using a personal example of being labeled a "bad child" for taking off uncomfortable dresses, Roxy highlights the need to observe and understand the child's perspective. She stresses the...