Doing the parenting this way also creates stability in your own emotional life. Children do test our patience and when situations become tense it can leave us feeling exhausted, guilty and just plain stressed. Lets face it, yelling really hurts the throat and raises the cortisol level in our bodies (stress hormone) and ends up turning our wonderful hair grey. This in turn is not healthy for the other members of the family, as who wants to be around an uptight person all the time?
A saying I go by is, “stressed out parents create stressed-out children”.
Natural parenting doesn’t always go to plan but we are always able to make a bad situation better and, in these situations, each child learns to talk it out and respect the other’s point of view. This helps to keep tempers from fraying and ends up producing good communicators for the future generations to come.
People that listen and respect what others feel and say rather than burying themselves in the universe of one (themselves), help to teach future generations – a major need in today’s society.
To use a phrase from a friend, “It is the change we make now with how we bring up our children that will lead to a better world in the future”.
Resolution in today’s society is nearly non-existent, this is why we need resolution counsellors, as we can’t resolve problems on our own. If we think of changing the form of parenting that is entrenched in us for a natural approach, we then become part of the future where people are able to work out differences within the home, state, country and world, leading to a change of how we live in today’s world.
Megen Hibbins, the free-spirited hippy mother, writer, homeschooler, traveller, off-grid liver, blogger and vlogger. Living totally off-grid in the Australian bush with beekeeper husband and children aged 7, 6, 5 and 2 that are homeschooled. Megen is a passionate writer, vlogger, homeschool advocate and lifestyle freedom and earth-loving activist. She writes twice a week on her blog whilst working with her husband and children on the things that need doing. To contact her head to her blog or subscribe to the Yoga Hippies YouTube channel.
