Controlling Parents – Reclaiming Unconditional Love

“How we feel about our kids isn’t as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.” Alfie Kohn, Unconditional Parenting “I don’t have any regrets.” Some people make this remark, more often than not with an air of absolute certainty and self-sufficiency as if they belonged to …

Stand Properly!

“Let’s take a picture. Go over there.” The eight- or nine-year-old girl was hopping on a patch of grass; she hopped to the rose bed indicated by her mother, humming cheerfully. When she stopped, she raised her hands in the summer air, smiling radiantly. “Stand properly.” The girl’s open palms didn’t move; her beaming smile …