Unlearning, Relearning, & Standing in Your Values

The kind of parent that I aim to be isn’t the kind of parent that our society tells me I should be.

That’s a lot to sort through, a lot to reckon with, and leaves you with a sense of needing to explain yourself whenever you are around others.

Becoming a parent has shown me that leaning in to your intuition is HARD. It involves stripping away the layers of “should”, of fear, of things we have unintentionally internalized about children and parenting.

Once you can see through all of that, you are able to show up authentically for your kiddo, the one that you know better than any expert.

I aim to be gentle. I aim to be responsive. I aim to be respectful. I aim for attachment and attunement. I aim for connection. I aim to understand my child. But the road to getting there goes against a lot of what I have internalized about parenting.

So this journey requires a lot of unlearning, re-parenting, going against the grain, and standing strongly in our values as parents and people. And then we can lean into our intuition, because we already know how to be the parent our child needs.