28/01/2026
I whole-heartedly agree with this!
Strong children are not raised by pressure, despite what we might think.
They are raised by safety, consistency and emotional truth. Resilience grows where rest exists.
Hear hear and amen! This is so true and a paradigm shift from how many parents were raised.
Many of our parents thought kids needed rules, enforcement of parental expectations and firm control of their behaviour to thrive.
They couldn’t have been more wrong and they passed it all onto us.
Safety, consistency and emotional truth is not easy to provide when you have not been on the receiving end of it.
We can do it though, when we meet the hurt parts of ourselves buried deep within us from those days.
And our children will grow into strong, resilient human beings who are at once curious, kind and compassionate, AND the empowered captain of their own ship.