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Thank you so much for the course, the webinar, and everything you do.
I end up in tears almost every time, because I guess I’m carrying a
lot of baggage from my own childhood. I’m a Police parent and my
husband is a Teacher parent, but I’ve been trying for a few months now
and even though I’m not a Partner parent all the time yet, it’s
working! I have two amazing, not always perfectly behaved little girls
(4 years and 21 months). They can pause and slow down when things
start to get out of hand, and we handle it together. We don’t always
manage to work things out, but step by step we’re getting there. I
thought things would get better once my little one turned 2, but now I
see I don’t have to wait and either patiently put up with it or lose
my temper! Thanks to you, we’re already doing better. THANK YOU.
Thank you so much for another great webinar, and I’m happy I spent a
free evening on it because it always motivates me to become the mother
I want to be: the best partner for my children. Usually, I sit down
for a webinar feeling like “Finally the kids are asleep” or “Today was
really rough with my active kids, finally a few minutes for myself”,
and afterwards I feel this new energy and amazing feeling that I can’t
wait to wake up in the morning and have a great day with my kids. I
don’t feel as much of the burden of responsibility and the feeling
that I have to do everything right and instill as much as possible in
them. That lets me relax and enjoy my job as a mother instead of doing
things because I feel like I have to. I appreciate your work so much
and how you’re helping moms enjoy motherhood and grow into a more
balanced, happier generation :)
I have a 6-month-old son with cerebral palsy and the doctors say he
won’t be able to see, or that he’s already blind. They keep telling me
I have to talk to him a lot to make up for his lack of sight. Even my
mom keeps up this constant stream of empty words to him. Recently I
asked her to stop. My instincts tell me this isn’t right for me or my
son. We don’t have to talk all the time. When he cries, I just ask
what’s wrong. It might sound hard to believe, but I can tell even when
he doesn’t like a change of position. I just wanted to write in to say
that Unparenting methods work with children who have complex medical
needs or disabilities. Thank you!
Good evening and thank you for the webinar. Man, those audio
experiences were powerful. I bawled like a baby imagining how my
little girl must feel when she’s having an outburst and I’m just
adding to her load because I can’t handle it well (yet). I’m still
planning to let the webinar sink in a bit, but I’m determined to give
it a try because what you say makes a lot of sense to me and my little
girl is worth it. And I’m finally going to go through the course, even
though I paid for it a year ago ... I’m a terrible procrastinator, I
know :) So thank you again.
And done! That went well. This time I invited my parents to watch the
webinar too. We live in the same house and had a bunch of conflicting
ideas about how to raise my daughter. At first, my dad made a bunch of
jokes about it (like he does for everything serious), but in the end,
he said, “Wow, this really must work!” Later I talked about it with my
mom, and she was a bit sad that she couldn’t advise me herself because
my sister and I just never acted out like that. I reassured her, “But
Mom, you communicated so well with us that we didn’t need to act out
and we have the great relationship I want to have with my daughter
too.” That brought a tear to her eye. We’re planning to watch the next
webinar together again. I’m thinking about offering them the whole
course... THANK YOU FOR THE EXPERIENCE AND IDEAS.
Dear Unparenting, Thank you for an amaaaaazing workshop. My first
thought is that it came too late because I don’t have young children
anymore and I wish I had had this information when raising my own
kids. I bought whatever parenting magazines were available, but I
never encountered this kind of approach to parenting, so I tended to
repeat old patterns. There’s nothing wrong with discipline,
principles, and obedience, but even with plenty of love behind them,
you still need good communication between parent and child in order to
understand each other and build healthy self-esteem. Now I’m brought
to tears (literally) over the mistakes I made as a parent, not knowing
any better, but there’s no going back. They should give Unparenting
instruction in prenatal classes. As the grandmother of two little
girls, I know how valuable they are to me. I spend a lot of time with
my granddaughters and I can try to walk a different path with them
than I did as a parent. Your workshop is a huge help for all parents
who have the ability and desire to listen. Thank you for your work.
I was with you today for the first time and I really enjoyed it. Thank
you. I remembered the things I heard as a kid and always hated. But
with your help, I’m sure we’ll be able to do things differently :)
I’m so thankful I decided to log in after all (more or less a
coincidence). I keep hearing the name “Unparenting” lately and I
didn’t really like it at first. It reminded me of the kind of
parenting I often see around me, where parents are at the absolute
whim of their children and don’t set any boundaries. I don’t like that
style at all, and it seems bad for everybody involved, especially the
children. But once I checked out Unparenting itself, I found it was
just the opposite. It’s a well-crafted approach to parenting based on
solid principles that respect children as people.