Naomi Aldort Parenting interviewed by Joss Goulden
Some of the subjects covered in this interview:
- How to be the unconditionally loving parent we want to be.
- Supporting parents to get their own emotional reactions and conditioning out of the way
- Freeing the child to be themselves
- How to deal with the grandparents suppportive parents
- Articles to give advice and support parents
- Why we should not praise our children
- How to listen to a child so they can recover and heal
- Validating feelings correctly
- Instead of defense: compassion
- Overcoming our own negative inner voice
- Identifying our triggers and how they block us from being present with our children
- Turning our attention to our children’s needs
- Questioning our thoughts using the work of Byron Katie
- Healing Games
- Empowering caring siblings relationship
- Using the Aldort’s magic words (Not: please, thank you and I am sorry)
- How to respond when your child says “I hate you”
- Trying to protect a child from hurt back fires
- Building emotional resilience
- When children have big upsets
- Getting out of the way so children can flourish
- Forgiveness; perfect parenting is not possible
- Responding to children’s aggression
- Power games
- Sibling rivalry
- Responding with connection
- How to become aware of the abits that block our love
- The power of facts in place of concepts
- Why manipulating a child causes insecurity and other harm
- Children can behave well of their own free will
- A child who is rooted in herself is confident
- Honouring children’s choices without giving license
- Non judgemental parenting
- Peaceful parenting
- Every child is a world in creation
- Why a parents should not fix every difficulty or pain
- The child’s emotional resilience
