Today’s guest is Genevieve Simperingham, a counsellor, an AWARE parenting educator, a writer, a group facilitator, meditation teacher and founder of the Peaceful Parent Institute in New Zealand. Over the last 24 years, Genevieve has presented hundreds of workshops and courses. She has parented her own kids using attachment principles and she seeks to empower parents with the tools that result in increased harmony, trust and cooperation in the family unit. We are discussing peaceful parenting our teenagers. Join us!

“It’s about bringing into your parenting not just how you should respond in this situation or in that situation and our different approaches and techniques (which are really, really important) but it’s all about who we are as a person and who our child is as a person and the dynamic and the energy between us.”

“We shouldn’t be in fighter stance simply because we have teenagers.”

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• What is peaceful parenting and how it is different than some of the more mainstream behaviorist parenting approaches.
• The Centre, Connect, Communicate approach
• Stress management, self care and healing trauma and how they relate to parenting
• The need for authenticity in empathy and curiosity
• The biggest hangups for parents around peaceful parenting teenagers
• Having tough conversations with your teens without shorting out the connection at the outset
• Setting and holding limits within the peaceful parenting framework
• Sex, drugs and alcohol use in teens - is it better to allow at home or to restrict?
• Reducing power struggles and rebellion
• Educating and empowering teens to make their own choices
• Reconnecting to move past conflict

What does Joyful Courage mean to you?

Joyful courage to me, it connects me with that last bit that we were just talking about, to me it’s about joy we feel in the heart and it takes a lot of courage to reconnect. So to me it’s about opening the heart and allowing the joy, the enjoyment of the relationship, of the connection to come back in and that takes courage. It takes courage to be vulnerable again. It’s easier to be hard and defensive and stern and it takes courage to open the heart come back to the joy of that beautiful connection again.

Resources:

Aware parenting

Where to find Genevieve:

The way of the Peaceful Parent Facebook Group

Facebook

Website

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