Lately, I’ve been noticing that everywhere I go parents are trying so hard to do it differently. I was sitting at the gym watching mothers crouch down to meet their children in the middle of huge emotions, watching them pause instead of punish, regulate instead of react, and it hit me how deeply this generation of parents is reparenting themselves in real time through the way we care for our children.
In this episode, I’m talking about emotional regulation, reparenting, and the moment I realized that tending to my child’s emotions was also teaching me how to finally tend to my own. I’m talking to the parent who feels overwhelmed by their child’s emotions, who worries they’re getting it wrong, or who is realizing that parenting is bringing their own unresolved wounds to the surface. It’s a reminder that our children don’t need perfection from us. They need presence. And sometimes the most healing thing we can do, for them and for ourselves, is to pause, soften, and choose to respond differently than what was modelled to us.
Highlights:
- Why so many of us freeze when our children have big emotions
- The difference between reacting to our children vs. regulating with them
- How parenting is revealing the emotional support we may not have received ourselves
- A real-life moment with my son that reminded me it’s never actually “about the trash”
- Why Human Design can be such a powerful tool for both parenting and reparenting yourself
You’re Invited it produced by Six-Two Studio.
Find me at alexcantone.com and at Parenting By Design on Substack
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