Why should you practice positive parenting?

If you’ve ever caught yourself saying something and were immediately mortified because you “sounded just like your mom” and you didn’t mean it in a good way — that’s why you should practice positive parenting.

Positive parenting is all about not letting your own issues, negative conditioning, and fears become your children’s. 

If someone has battled anxiety, and OCD, depression etc. they come with a lot of baggage. There is potentially a lot of pain that can unknowingly unload your children, YOU DO NOT want that to happen!

By practicing positive parenting, which I think can also be called mindful parenting too, you will find that you aren’t as reactive or defensive as you may have been in the past. You start to see things a little more objectively, which creates more space for appropriate responses, instead of ego-fueled reactions.

It does take practice to become more self-aware, but after a while, you will find yourself stopping mid-sentence or action and thinking, “Wait, I don’t want to say that, or I really don’t want to do that. Realign!”

While it might seem like you have to practice a lot of self-control, I find that it feels more like I’m finally free from my habitual, instinctive, often negative reactions.