What you really do need, and really don't need, to be a damn good parent. Because in the end, none of the things that we need in order to make it in a capitalistic world will matter much if we don’t know how to value, attend to and meet our children’s needs. As well as our own. And if we don't know how to help ourselves so that we're moving in the direction of what our hearts really want. Or if we don’t even know how to identify those heart-driven longings. 

What is actually helpful to humans when we are behaving poorly?

I’ve listed below some actions that can be extremely helpful to our children when they are thinking, saying or doing things that, deep down, they really don’t want to be doing.

In other words, when they show up in life in ways that do not serve them well.

Here’s the thing though. The actions below, need to come from the right person. For a child, the right person should be their trusted caregivers–not their peers, siblings, pets or unsafe adults.

It never crossed my mind during the many times that I held my crying baby, in such a way that she might know with all of her being that I could hold whatever was hurting inside of her–that I was preparing myself to offer the same steadfast closeness and holding to my dad as tears rolled from his eyes in his last conscious hours.

Do you wonder how to help our children to make sense of the suffering of our world, and our particular agency and responsibilities to each other as fellow humans?

After years of supporting parents like you, who want to help their children make sense of the world’s injustices through a lens of love, humanity and justice…I want to share two important things that matter a lot in order for our kids to be able to do this.

How overwhelm can be a path to connection and belonging.

How do we protect them?

It’s not always so easy to do

And I really wanted to say it!

the answer may surprise you