For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.
Parenting is not just about you and your kid; it's also about whomever you're parenting your child with. So there is a kind of 'awareness' involved for everybody. It's all about the way you interact with your child and participate in your child's life.
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.
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