Hello!
 

On Saturday, I gave a workshop called “Feelings are our Friends,” which was fun!

At the end, the people I already knew came up to talk to me.

One of them had been my dance teacher 5 years ago.

I already knew that she had been inspired to practice Aware Parenting, but I hadn’t heard the whole story.

I said to her, “I only remember that day that Sunny pulled apart your cushion”

So she told us the story.

Sunny was about 4 then, and he and my daughter (then 8), were on her couch, watching the dance class.

I didn’t realise until the end of the class that he had pulled loads of these long pieces of material out of the cushion.

I felt really uncomfortable, and one by one I put them back in.

She said that she had been watching, and what she had seen was not only the way that I did that, but also how I responded to him – with empathy.
 

Fast forward five years, and she now has a daughter and has been practicing Aware Parenting with passion with her since she was a baby – after looking up my work when her daughter was a baby.

And the next wonderful thing was, that another mum was there, with her baby.

She had been the nanny of my ex-dance teacher’s daughter, and was so inspired by her parenting, that now she is also a passionate practicer of Aware Parenting.

How I responded to my son after the cushion incident had had a kind of domino effect!
 

I want to share that, because parents often ask me, “How can I help other parents learn about these ways of parenting?”

And I often respond, that you modelling how you are with your baby or child can have a huge influence on others – often in ways that you might not even realise!

So, my invitation is to not underestimate the power you have when you respond to your toddler with compassion in the high street, or when you listen to your child’s crying in the supermarket.

Other parents or parents-to-be may be deeply influenced by seeing your compassion.

And I’d love to hear if you have any stories like this!
 

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