048: Honoring Your Child's Sovereignty & Appreciating Their View of The World

In episode 046, we talked about three essential pillars to respect and the first one was about seeing your child as an Individual: A complete, whole human being with their own thoughts, needs, and feelings…   Today we make a special emphasis on the Separateness Factor of being an Individual.   As soon as your child is able to interact with the world intentionally, they begin to acquire their own experience, separate and private from ours. What that means is that there is a lot we do not know about our children. And we don’t have to.   Not knowing is not the problem, it is our assumptions that we do know — that’s a problem. When we assume we know, we begin to impose ourselves... When we impose, we overstep the child’s boundaries.   And we already talked about how important boundaries are to the child’s sense of Self. The antidote to broken boundaries is to acknowledge the child’s Sovereignty.   What is that precisely and how do we do that? Tune in to hear more.       Want more ideas? Sign up here for the Emotionally Intelligent Parenting training.   Host: Julia Pappas, Psychologist & Parent Coach With questions and comments, please reach out on Instagram @theparentingpresence. Additional info is available at theparentingpresence.com