Co-creation in conscious parenting is the highest form of respect.
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Co-creation goes beyond the non-coercive parenting approach because power is no longer the basis of relating. Power sharing can’t be the basis of relationship because parents will always have more social experience and legal status than children. The power differential will always influence the relationship.
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But, co-creation in relationship defines the relating by responsibility, not power. In co-creating relationships with our teens, we share the responsibility for the relationship. Co-creating trusts that our teen’s have their own wisdom and establishes the emotionally and spiritually safe space to draw out, support and nurture that wisdom.
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How is this achieved? By communicating from the heart in every interaction.
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When we do our own inner work, we can be as emotionally and spiritually present as possible in as many interactions as we can. To the best of our ability, we free ourselves of projections. We learn conscious communication skills that represent our own truth in real time, in real conversations which carries an underlying invitation to our teens to share their truth.
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Not only is co-creation a constant invitation to connect on a heart-level by the way we communicate our heart messages, it has the added benefit of modeling respectful communication for our teen’s futures. The conscious communication skills that voice our truth is the very way teens can respectfully stand for themselves with us and every other relationship as they launch.
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Co-creating (sharing responsibility in relationships) is the path to learning how to be a “successful” adult. And isn’t that our parenting purpose to raise teens to be responsible, contributing adults?
To learn more, go to https://lauralreagan.com/parenting-teenagers-improving-your-relationship-through-communication/ and if you are ready to make co-creation work in your family, schedule a Back on Track Assessment
A good reminder that my children are their own people. I strive to respect that and create a relationship with them, not for them.
Yes! WITH and not for…