Avoiding Parenting ‘Power Play’ (VLOG)
No right-minded adult wants to end up in a power play dynamic with their kids - resorting to using their superior intellectual, physical or emotional power as a means of coercion.
And yet, so often, you can unwittingly fall into taking up an entrenched position on something, purely because your child has refused to co-operate; resulting in a stand-off that can bring out the worst, ungentle/disrespectful, unconscious parenting traits that you have been working so hard to avoid!
Watch this to find out:
which part of you is in charge of parenting in that moment
why this part feels as though your child is trying to ‘get one over’ on you
why this part of you feels the desperate need to ‘win’ in retaliation
how to make sure this part is no longer in charge and emotionally mature, regulated, non-triggered, adult you can step back into the driving seat