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Some parents ask me, don’t we all do child-based parenting? Aren’t we all the time child-based?
So my response to the parents are, maybe not.
Maybe we are not child-based.
Maybe most of us are expectations-based.
We operate from our own beliefs, our own anxieties, our own expectations from the child, from the future. We are all the time thinking about how this will fit in, how that will fit in. In some ways, we are planning the life of the child.
In which case, how is it child-based? Isn’t it us-based or worry-based or future-based or everything else-based? But it’s not child-based.
[This becomes specially important families doing or considering UnSchooling or home schooling or for parents whose child is anyways struggling in school or academics etc]
What Does It Mean to Be Child-Based?
What is it to be child-based? How is it that we can understand what is child-based?
In some ways, we have to then look at the child from many, many more perspectives. We have to understand:
- Emotions differently
- Behavior differently
- Learning differently
We have to understand how children, or for that matter, all of us operate differently.
When I’m using the word “differently” does not mean that what we understand today is wrong! Not at all.
What we understand today is perfect, just that we need to add more understandings to our understandings, more perspectives, more way to see the child and more ways to see how we look at the child.
If we add more ways, automatically, we are then free to choose what works not for our expectations, but works best for the child.
An Invitation to Explore
Think about this, and if you would like to, come, explore with us YOUR child in our program called Jagriti. It is just made for you to open up to the very many possibilities inside your child.
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