What Is Conscious Parenting - Guest Bloggers

Michael is the author of the blog, Is This Co-Parenting. Michael is a Christian navy wife, a mother to two beautiful boys and a daughter, a certified doula and Hypnobabies instructor. She writes about everything from co-sleeping and breastfeeding, attachment parenting and co parenting, to pregnancy, birthing, and so much more. For this month's theme, she writes about what conscious parenting means to her.

"As parents, most of us tend to parent our children the way we were raised, or we choose the opposite path, with similarly questionable outcomes. “I was spanked, so I will NEVER spank.” or “I was never disciplined and we ran wild. I will definitely teach my kids the fear of God.”

These unconscious patterns are ingrained in our psyches, and are part of who we are. Yet at some point, most of us wonder if there might be a better or different approach we could take?.."

Be sure to read the rest here. 

Thanks, Michael, for the post!