310. Choice & Parenting

About this episode

Simone Milasas discusses the importance of choice in parenting with Grace Douglas, emphasizing empowerment over perfection.

Are you trying to get parenting right? In this episode of Choice, Change and Action Simone Milasas talks with Grace Douglas about choice and parenting. If you're trying to get it right, you stop the creative process. What if you could empower your kids instead? Questions And Tools: "If we do this, what will it create for all of us? In 5 years time? In 10 years time?" Tools: Be present with your kids. Empower them to choose. Educate yourself on parenting and acknowledge your awareness; you are the source. Just because it's going to create more doesn't mean it's going to be easy. Perceive the energy of your choices in the future. 2 hands exercise - place the energy of one choice in one hand and the energy of the other choice in the other hand. Let go and have no point of view. There is no getting it right with parenting. Be a bad parent. Manipulate your kids. Bribes are okay. Make things they don't want to do fun for them eg homework. Support your kids where they are. Let your kids try things and make mistakes. When your kids are choosing something you don't like, be as open as possible whilst letting them know you don't like it. Tools you can say to your kids: "It's your life, you…

People in this episode

Host: Simone Milasas

Guest: Grace Douglas

Topics covered

• parenting
• choice
• empowerment
• self-awareness
• creative process

Keywords

• parenting
• choice
• empowerment
• self-awareness
• creative process
• mistakes
• support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: El Lugar

Products: Merlin bird identifier app

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