Balanced Parenting

Mar 05 2024 5 ep. 19 mins 4

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Shifting the paradigm of today’s anxious parenting culture toward greater balance, freeing parents from guilt and burnout, and helping children to become self-reliant.

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Why Blaming Your Parents for Your Unhappiness Leads You to Over-Focus On Your Kids

Mar 05 2024 17 mins

There is a current trend of “healing” generational trauma by parenting more gently than one’s parents. Within this, there is a lot of parent blaming going on. While some acknowledge their parents’ efforts, however imperfect, the majority of people do not. And unfortunately, this tends to lead people to not only shame their own parents for not correctly meeting their “emot

Why Codependency is the Main Parenting Struggle, Not Attachment Insecurity

Feb 26 2024 25 mins

In today’s parenting culture, most people believe that the main relationship problem children experience is lacking a securely attached bond with their caregiver. As a result, parents are terrified of not meeting their children’s “connection needs” for fear of causing problems in them. When I was a new mom I was no different–I was obsessed with being as attentive, involve

Why Self-Reliant Children are Happier than Needy Children

Feb 20 2024 14 mins

You don’t often hear people talking about the need to encourage self-reliance in children these days. It seems to be more of an unpopular opinion that we are fighting against as a culture. It is more accepted to validate children’s dependency needs, give them plenty of our “love” and acceptance, calm their anxieties, and let them need us. The idea is that as parents accept

Why Parents Have to Pretend to Like Their Children (And how to actually like them again)

Feb 11 2024 14 mins

Have you ever felt annoyed by your kid, and then felt extremely guilty because of it? If so, you’re not alone. This is actually a really common experience–common enough for a theory of human relationships to identify this phenomenon and explain why this happens. Specifically, it is identified in Bowen family systems theory, a foundational theory to the field of family therapy

What is Balanced Parenting?

Feb 04 2024 24 mins

In this episode, we introduce ourselves and give an overview of Balanced Parenting. Balanced Parenting is a differentiation-based parenting approach informed by Murray Bowen’s family systems theory. The main goal of Balanced Parenting is to bring balance and genuine connection to parent-child relationships by helping parents and children to be free to have their own autonomy (in