Parenting in Partnership April 13, 2009
Next Sunday, I am offering my class- Parenting Together: Right from the Start at Blooma. Somehow, in the midst of all the things you have to figure out in those first months of parenting something important happens that many of us don’t notice. Somewhere in those early months, parents become partners and that partnership sets the tone for your marriage, your home environment. Doing this intentionally is difficult with all the other changes going on around you.
I can’t tell you how to parent. I believe strongly that parenting is a highly intimate personal relationship and most “experts” seem to offer some kind of one size fits all model of parenting. Parenting is a dance between you and your child and then there is the other dance between your child and their other parent. It seems the hardest part of parenting is when my dance and my husband’s end up tripping us all up. When we are both home, we don’t quite know who’s leading.
Respecting your partner’s relationship with their child means trusting that we share core values and are heading mostly in the same direction. It means putting relationship ahead of rules.
Want to hear some more? Call Blooma, get a babysitter and lets talk.
Maureen
