Boundless Parent

06/14/2024

Yes, it's a shocker, but kids are people, too.

12/23/2023

🎇 New episode 9 — Talk so Children Listen

🎙️𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿: Authentic, Connected, Empathic.

🗣Ever feel like what you say is falling on deaf ears? You keep repeating yourself but what you say passes right over your child's head? 🙉

👉🏼 In this episode, we talk about how to avoid roadblocks and talk clearly and effectively so your child hears you out. We also address how to handle resistance by shifting gears to active listening in order to keep the communication channels open to mutual understanding.

After all, communication is a two-way street.

💫 Listen, watch, and subscribe to get our future episodes on your favorite platform:

🎧 Listen: https://boundlessparent.com/podcast
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✅ Let us know what YOU want to hear on this podcast. All questions about parenting and thinking through your real-life situations are welcome!

📩 Reach us at the links in our bios:
❥ Babak Boundless Parent: https://linktr.ee/boundlessparent
❥ Melissa Best Parenting Today: https://bit.ly/bestparentingtoday

10/06/2023

🚀 Launched today: our new podcast

🎙𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿
𝗔uthentic,
𝗖onnected,
𝗘mpathic.

Listen to our first two episodes:

#1 🎬 Introduction: A-C-E of parenting.
#2💡Beyond Rewards and Punishments: unleash your and your children's ideas, tap into your creativity, and solve problems instead.

Follow Babak and Melissa and find us on your favorite platform.

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3PNLkTo
YouTube: https://bit.ly/ACEPT-YouTube

10/02/2023

Attending to our children's needs doesn't mean ignoring our own.

Caregiving starts with taking care of yourself.

09/22/2023

As we head into this weekend, remember to take the time to check in and reflect on your values and your self to nurture your inner calm and harmony. Staying in touch with ourselves helps us stay connected with the people we love.

✨ Make an appointment for a free consult at the link in my bio at Boundless Parent or at:
❥ https://boundlessparent.com/appointments

✨ Questions?
❥ Send a message right here or at https://boundlessparent.com/contact.

09/20/2023

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽

Just like finding the right thread to pull when untying a knot, sorting out who 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 can start to untangle our emotions and resolve our problems in a way that we can stay true to ourselves and remain connected to each other.

👉🏼 Read the full blog post on this vital communication skill at: https://boundlessparent.com/blog/f/whose-problem-is-it-anyway

✨ Learn more about my parenting course and sign up at the link in my bio or at:
❥ https://boundlessparent.com/pet-course

✨ Questions?
❥ Send a message right here or at https://boundlessparent.com/contact.

09/15/2023

Shouldn't we prepare our kids with 🖤 "tough love" for the real world?

No!

Of course the "real world" is inhospitable in countless ways: 🥵hot, 😰cold, 🌊wet, 🌵dry, 💀dangerous, ⚠️harsh. That's why we build 🏡 homes that are 🛟safe, where we can 🛌rest and 👩🏼‍🍳restore, 🏘️gather to 🌱grow, and 💗connect to 🎨create a better 🌎world.

💕Preparing for the real world starts with real love.

✨ Learn more about my parenting course and sign up at the link in my bio or at:
❥ https://boundlessparent.com/pet-course

✨ Questions?
❥ Send a message right here or at https://boundlessparent.com/contact.

09/13/2023

Open and honest communication is the center stone of a ♾️boundless relationship. Without blaming or shaming, preaching or pressuring, or any other roadblocks to effective communication inherent in 👉🏼you-messages. Instead, we can do better with ✋🏼I-messages that make tangible and specific observations, disclose our thoughts and express our feelings.

You can sharpen your I-messages and other vital skills for an authentic, connected, and empathic relationship with your children this fall in my Parent Effectiveness Training course.

✨ Learn more and sign up at:
❥ https://boundlessparent.com/pet-course

✨ Questions?
❥ Send a message right here or at https://boundlessparent.com/contact.

09/10/2023

𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀

How can we expect children to respect, let alone adopt, our values of if we show no interest, or even worse, restrict and degrade what they value?

This weekend, let's remember that values are best taught when they are modeled authentically in a connected, reciprocal, respectful relationship. That also means taking an interest in what our children find valuable.

✨ Learn more about my parenting course and sign up at the link in my bio or at:
❥ https://boundlessparent.com/pet-course

✨ Questions?
❥ Send a message right here or at https://boundlessparent.com/contact,

09/09/2023

Interesting art that is sadly deeply mistaken about the parent-child relationship.

Parents are separate people from their children. Kids, too, are not simply made from parts of their parents. They are people in their own right.

Too often, this leads to ignoring the agency and the autonomy of children in having and pursuing their own preferences, needs, interests, and values.

Parents and children are connected yet separate people.

09/08/2023

I had the good fortune of speaking to several parents and kids at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington today about this fall's parenting class—such interesting conversations, kind responses, and good energy.

This Parent Effectiveness Training course is offered in partnership with BGCB. And, if the cost is an obstacle, let me know—there are several ways of helping with that.

✨ Learn more about the course and sign up:

❥ https://boundlessparent.com/pet-course

✨ Questions?
❥ Send a message right here or at https://boundlessparent.com/contact

09/02/2023

Dr Naomi Fisher provides consistently good and clear-eyed advice for parents on how to support sensitive children (is there any other kind?) while lowering our demands. In this start-of-school season, the webinar she is offering will be a great opportunity to learn more about this approach.

Wishing you all a fun Labor Day weekend full of authentic connection and empathy.

School. Full of demands - and when those demands meet a pressure-sensitive child, things can go wrong fast. How can you take a low demand approach to school - and help your child thrive? Come and and hear Eliza Fricker (Missing The Mark) and I talk about exactly that TOMORROW.

Tickets are selling fast. It is recorded and if you choose that option at the check out, we'll send you the recording after the event.

Please share if you know parents who might benefit.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/700798947517?aff=oddtdtcreator