Parenting

What if parenting is not only about who our children become, but who we become through them?We usually think of parenting as something we do for our children. We protect them, guide them, teach them and gradually prepare them to find their own way in the world. But parenting is also something that happens to us.Our children reveal our patience and our impatience, our courage and our fears, our capacity to love and our desire to control. And as they grow, the relationship continually asks us to grow with them. In Parenting: Living the Coherence Principle Across a Lifetime, Richard Barrett explores parenting through the three conditions of coherence:Differentiation · Integration · Openness to CorrectionHow do we allow our children to become themselves fully while remaining deeply connected? How do we know when to protect and when to let go? And can we remain open enough to recognise when the child before us has outgrown the way we have learned to parent them?Through thirty-six reflections on the ordinary challenges and extraordinary possibilities of being a parent, Barrett follows the relationship from holding and guiding to releasing and relating.This is not a manual for raising the perfect child.It is an invitation to become more conscious of the relationship through which two lives are continually developing. Because your child is becoming. And so are you.