Alfie Kohn's Principles of Conscious Parenting

13 PRINICPLES OF CONSCIOUS PARENTING

1. Be reflective.
2. Reconsider your requests.
3. Stay focused on your long-term goals.
4. Put your relationship first.
5. Change how you see not just how you act.
6. R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
7. Be authentic.
8. Talk less, ask more.
9. Be mindful of your child's age.
10. Attribute to children the best possible motive consistent with the facts.
11. Don't stick to no's unnecessarily.
12. Don't be rigid.
13. Don't be in a hurry.

Conscious, unconditional parenting asks you to step outside the traditional box of thinking and learn to engage and connect with your children before you discipline for the sake of convenience.

It does not require you to abandon all your parenting practices, just to be mindful as you parent. Give your child the benefit of the doubt.

Remember that we are only a collection of everything we've ever observed, heard, read and seen. As we view the world, we collect, sort and file away our experiences as reference points for how to react in the future.

These experiences are built upon memory after memory giving us the total sum of our lives thus far and our outlook on the world. Everything can be completely changed by altering the experiences, starting at a young age.

Fill the hearts and minds of your children with love, positive limitless experience and let their personal self blossom.