❤ Intentional Parenting: the power of rhythm and ritual 🥰

In this week's Top Tip Tuesday's Masterclass we discussed how something as simple as a family whiteboard can support the consistency, predictability and routine that every child needs .  We had some beautiful embodiment pieces, feeling into our intention, our resistance when in a power struggle with our child, and visualising how we want to feel in our parenting.

Here is what we covered during our Masterclass:

🌼 This whiteboard is our new thing: myself, Olivia and Harry each writing on there what we'd like to do each day, what things we already have planned, what our commitments are. 

🌿 Each of us have a voice, each of us can take ownership of our responsibilities (at a developmentally appropriate level), we decide  between the three of us what is possible and what is not possible.

🌺 It's not achievable to be able to meet everyone's needs every day; but the power in this approach is that everyone gets to be seen and heard, everyone's voice matters. 

🍁 For Elementary aged children, connection collaboration and cooperation is cultivated when they are part of decision-making processes, their strong sense of justice and need for fairness dictates this.

💫 They will resist arbitrary decisions, rules and boundaries - our role is involve them in family life, the logistics,  the planning,  what we consider to be the "boring stuff".  

🕸 They are often more creative and more resourceful in problem-solving and cooperation as they don't have the decades of bad habits that we do 😝, they are able to look upon things with fresh eyes. 

😚 We can cultivate autonomy, empathy, collaboration, responsibility and a sense of agency just from something as simple as a daily whiteboard!
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