Parenting is a dance...
And sometimes I have 2 left feet
Sometimes I think of parenting like a dance. Sometimes there is ease and flow, sometimes I am stepping on toes and moving around with 2 left feet. It can be beautiful at times, messy at times and sometimes we fall flat on our face. But we keep getting back up.
What I love about Hand in Hand Parenting and their 5 parenting by connection tools is that it has nothing to do with perfection and everything to do with reaching for each other, prioritizing connection, unlearning and relearning, emotional healing, the long view, being silly and playful, deep listening and then listening some more. It’s a beautiful and messy dance.
Hand in Hand has 4 connection tools parents use with children and a support tool just for parents called Listening Time. Because none of this works if parents don’t have the support they need. This is seriously hard work we are doing. What other work would we ever do in this world where we didn’t have education, mentors, support, sounding boards and more? We’ve been sold a bill of goods to think that parenting is different than other endeavors. To try to raise well adjusted emotionally healthy sturdy kids, it’s a serious job.
I am here to help. And by the way, I have skin the game too. I have 3 children between the ages of 9 and 13. It is full on every day. It is challenging. But we are always orienting towards unconditional love and connection. Reach out if you need support and want to learn these time tested connection tools.
They don’t make perfect families or perfect kids but they keep us deeply connected to one another so we can share a felt sense of unconditional love through the ups and downs. Isn’t that what we ultimately want?
Kate@wholeheartedfamily.com
Look around my Substack home page for a handful of posts and videos on Hand in Hand parenting to get a taste of what I am talking about.
xo Kate