Tag: power of habit

Dear Katherine, It’s our first holiday season since joining the Conscious Parenting Revolution, and I’m nervous about how my extended family will react to our new parenting style.  We’ll be spending Christmas with a large group, and I’m concerned that other family members’ tendency toward authoritarian discipline will confuse my children or undo some of […]

Do your interactions with your kid feel more like a friendship than a typical parent-child relationship?  Being best friends with your child sounds lovely, and it’s certainly born out of good intentions. But believe it or not, crossing this line is never in a child’s best interest. In fact, it signals a fundamental misunderstanding of […]

Parenting a teenager evokes a powerful combination of conflicting emotions: pride and worry, joy and frustration. Indeed, this phase of life can be just as challenging for parents as it is for their kids!  The parent-child relationship fundamentally changes as your children turn into young adults. While this transformation is rewarding to witness, it also […]

Hello, Conscious Parent! Welcome to “Dear Katherine,” a monthly Q&A with real-life parents/caregivers. If you’d like to submit a question of your own, email me at katherine@consciousparentingrevolution.com. Dear Katherine, My wife and I have two children, ages 10 and 7. Our older daughter feels that we let our younger son “get away with” things that she […]

Halloween is an important night for kids of all ages.  It’s a wonderful social opportunity combined with the chance to exercise their creativity.  And of course, let’s not forget about all that candy.  But like many holidays and major events, the excitement of Halloween can also increase conflict between parents and children. And fighting with […]

Stop me if you’ve ever been in a situation like this one. . .  You’ve had a long day—the kind where nothing seems to go right. Now, when you’re supposed to be enjoying family time, your kids will not stop bickering over the most insignificant things.  While they’re arguing over who can drink their water […]

Have you heard of Ivan Fernandez? Ivan is a Spanish cross country runner who has competed internationally in several long-distance running events. He entered the global spotlight in 2013, not for winning a race—but for coming in second place. During the race, Ivan was running behind Kenyan runner Abel Mutai. Abel was almost at the finish […]

As the world becomes more technologically advanced, it’s getting easier than ever to invade each other’s privacy.  Features like location sharing combined with our phones’ ability to store every thought, post, or message we send make it possible to know what people are doing, thinking, or feeling at any given moment. This gradual erosion of […]

Hello, Conscious Parent! Welcome to “Dear Katherine,” a monthly Q&A with real-life parents/caregivers. If you’d like to submit a question of your own, email me at katherine@consciousparentingrevolution.com. Dear Katherine, My wife and I have been applying the Guidance Approach to Parenting discipline method to activate “self-started behavioral change” from within our 10-year-old daughter, which means we […]