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What is peaceful parenting?

When you start practicing peaceful parenting, it is three-fold.

To be a peaceful parent, you have to start first with yourself. You are learning to control your triggers and emotions. 

Connection with your child is a massive part of peaceful parenting as well. 

And thirdly, choose to parent your children out of peace and say no to reactive parenting.

What is reactive parenting?

Now that we know what peaceful parenting is, what exactly is reactive parenting?

Reactive parenting is when we react to our child’s behavior with our emotions. 

I am guilty. Sometimes it’s easy to give in to our emotions while parenting our children. But we are reacting with our emotions, aren’t we?

But the trouble comes when we react to everything with our emotions instead of using connection and logic. 

Children learn how to set aside their own emotions and react positively and peacefully with other people from us.

How can peaceful parenting affect your household?

Peaceful parenting can turn your household into a home with chaos and yelling into a place your children and you thrive in.

Everyone wants a place they can come home to and feel happy and peaceful, children included. We can create that atmosphere for our children and families by practicing peaceful parenting and saying goodbye to reactive parenting.

7 Simple Tips to Start Practicing Peaceful Parenting

1. Start With Yourself First

To be a peaceful parent, you need to look at yourself first. You will not be able to connect with your child and stop reacting with emotions if you do not first look at yourself and figure out what is causing you to be a reactive parent and respond to your children based on your feelings.

It could be something that goes back deep into your childhood. On the other hand, it could have more to do with self-care and not taking steps to take care of yourself first. Whatever the reason, you need to look at it before you can start becoming the peaceful parent you want to be.

2. Make A Commitment Every Day To Wake Up And Practice Peaceful Parenting

Being a peaceful parent takes discipline, especially if you aren’t used to parenting this way. However, if you are used to parenting from your emotions, you must wake up daily and commit to practicing peaceful parenting.

You will have setbacks, and there will be days when you fail miserably. I know there are days I have failed miserably at peaceful parenting.

But when this happens, you can get up and try again. No one is perfect, not you and not your children.

Every day we make choices, and those choices we must commit to.

Your parenting philosophy is no different. When you become a peaceful parent, you must wake up daily and repeatedly commit to yourself and your children.

3. Focus On Connection And Then Correction

When disciplining our children, it’s easy to focus first and foremost on correcting their bad behavior. They are misbehaving, which means they need to be disciplined, right?

It’s easy to overlook that children also need a connection to you more than correction. Don’t get me wrong, I wholeheartedly believe in correcting misbehavior. However, the best way to do this is by instilling strong habits in children daily.

Explore some great ways to connect with your child’s heart while disciplining. 

4. Set Limits For Your Children

There is nothing wrong with setting limits for our children. 

When your child knows what you expect of them every single day, it’s easier to be a peaceful parent. In turn, you will be more relaxed, and they will be happier.

This all comes down to being consistent with your parenting, even when tired. 

I’m not going to lie, there are days I am tired, and I wish I could just let my children do whatever they want and act however they want. But the reality is children need to know that mom and dad are consistent and that there are limits. This makes being a peaceful parent easier and gives your children essential life skills they need to carry into adulthood.

Here’s why consistent parenting matters.

5. Remember, Your Child Is Human

Ask yourself, are you a perfect person? Do you make mistakes?

Don’t you want forgiveness and understanding when you are in a bad mood and cranky?
Why should it be any different for our children? They are only human. They make mistakes, have cranky moods, and need forgiveness too.

It’s easier to be a peaceful parent when we acknowledge that no child is perfect and that we can’t expect them to be.

6. Don’t Be Afraid To Apologize To Your Child

Have you ever apologized to your child? I always say it’s the most humbling experience. Sometimes, when we make mistakes, we want to ignore that we made one. We don’t want to humble ourselves and our pride and bring it to a little child. But why? T

here have been many times when I have been cranky for no reason. Then, when I realize it, I come to my children and say, “mommy was cranky. I shouldn’t have taken any of my crankiness out on you. That is wrong. I am sorry. I hope you can forgive me.”

Children are the most forgiving humans that are around. Apologizing to them when you were wrong helps your connection with their heart and models how to apologize when you are wrong and forgive when someone wrongs you.

Don’t let your pride get in your relationship with your kids.

7. Examine Your Expectations

What are you expecting out of your children? What are you expecting out of yourself? Examine your expectations. Sometimes you may find your expectations of yourself, and your children are too high.

This comes down to remembering that you and your children are imperfect humans. We can start practicing peaceful parenting when we are mindful of our expectations and adjust accordingly.

Are you looking for more practical peaceful parenting tips?

On the website Choosing Therapy, in the article Peaceful Parenting: What It Is, Benefits, & Tips For Practice, author Joyce Marter gives realistic tips for parents when they start practicing peaceful parenting. In this article, she reviews what peaceful parenting is, the many benefits, including increased happiness and healthier attachment styles. She also touches on the drawbacks of peaceful parenting. If you are looking for more details on what it means to truly be a peaceful mom, check out this article!

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