Social and cultural patterns over generations can result in unresolved feelings, thoughts, and desires being projected onto the child.

Many new parents have the best intentions of improving the job their parents did, seeking a second chance of sorts.

Meditation, mindfulness and movement is so important for our children to connect to themselves on a deeper level, to truly understand their feelings, behaviours and thoughts.

If we are to parent better, we need to begin to see that the real purpose of parenting is to grow with our children.

When you learn that children who are defiant have an unmet ‘Need to Act’ then we get closer to understanding them.

Even little white lies create potential imbalances in children that impact on their vital need to speak truthfully. Children can repress or deny emotions such as guilt and shame when they know they have lied and not spoken their truth.

Children are not blank slates, and in fact any emotional patterning and habits we have in ourselves as parents will be embodied by the next generation. The child therefore acts as a total mirror for the past.

When you explore what your child might be experiencing, you will begin to align and attune more with your child and have the space to ask them what they are feeling and thinking.

Children know more than we realise, or give them credit for.

If children feel unsafe without their parents, or feel that they do not have enough time with them, they may be resistant to separation.

Starting school is a major transition in early childhood. How secure a child will feel about being in a new environment such as kinder or school will depend on how secure they feel within themselves.

Until we start collectively considering that the child is always responding appropriately to their environment in every moment (even if we cannot see what they are responding to) we are missing vital links to supporting them as self realised individuals