Most conflicts and power struggles can be fairly easily dissipated by slowing down, softening, letting go of your agenda (even temporarily) and re-connecting. Or through bringing in some humour! Our children can rarely resist coming back into the warmth of the parent child conection when we move into goofy silly mum/dad mode, or simply show them that we’ve got that playful glint back in our eye. But to achieve the momentous task of putting the relationship before the tasks to be achieved, the clock or the gripping urge to prove our point, to choose to connect rather than control, to be playful rather than demanding; we first need to stop, pause and re-centre ourselves. It’s easy to think that we don’t have time to stop in our tracks to re-connect, but when we don’t it’s pretty guaranteed that everything you need your child’s cooperation to achieve in the day is going to take ten times as long – at least! Changing habits is challenging, it doesn’t happen overnight, it takes time, it takes a lot of learning through our mistakes, but we’re all in it together, all doing the best we can to change the patterns that were handed down to us and didn’t serve us. How amazing are you for being on this journey of awareness, self-responsibility, change and growth. How rewarding! ~ Genevieve
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:00:01 +0000
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