E5. Respectful Communication
Episode Description
In this episode we discuss our road to finding peaceful, gentle approaches to raising our children. We share with you why we wholeheartedly value working in cooperation with our own children and also the children we care for in our nature play programs.
Our discussion:
● Respectful Communication is treating children in the same way we wish to be treated as adults
● Considering children’s voices in the decision making process while maintaining our role in keeping them safe and to set appropriate boundaries.
● The four ideas of respectful communication:
1. Children and parents have the opportunity to be heard and understood
2. Children have the freedom to feel their emotions
3. Stating our expectations clearly and with purpose ie we need to re-examine our expectations and reflect on these continually to ensure that they are fair and developmentally appropriate
4. Empowering children to solve their own problems by helping them to develop language to communicate their needs and feelings
We do the inner work to find out why we are triggered by our children’s challenging behaviours and continually work towards improving our connection and how we communicate.
“One day your child will make a mistake or a bad choice and will run to you instead of away from you and in that moment you will know the immense value of peaceful, positive, respectful parenting.” L.R. Knost
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