Are you responding or REACTING?

Children test limits and push boundaries.

Their natural curiosity and desire to learn makes that inevitable.

Part of what makes being a parent (mother or father), so challenging, is this very fact!

But I want you to try and look at it from a different perspective.

What triggers us isn't the behaviour.

What triggers us is what we make that behaviour mean.

When they don't listen to us...

↪️ "they are being disrespectful"

↪️ "they SHOULD listen to me"

When they don't want to share...

↪️ "they are being selfish"

↪️ "I SHOULD make them share"

When they cry after not getting what they want...

↪️ "they are overreacting"

↪️ "they are MANIPULATING me"

These internal conversations we have with ourselves inevitably lead to one place....us REACTING!

But what if you could catch the inner dialogue before reacting?

If you were able to distance what you are making the behaviour mean from what is ACTUALLY happening?

Would you still REACT, or could you respond differently?

Let me know your thought below.

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