Parenting for Social Change

Author: Teresa Graham Brett

At its core, parenting is about love. The parent-child relationship is the foundation from which we learn how to interact in the world. When parent-child relationships are approached from our culture's dominant paradigm of control, children learn that those who are more powerful have the right to control those who are less powerful. They lose their connection to their inner authority and internal motivation necessary to creating their own authentic lives.

Highlights:

In addition to Brett's website, Parenting for Social Change, she has also published a book on parenting titled Parenting for Social Change:

• Parenting for Social Change, the book, debunks the myth that control is an essential parenting tool using current research. It challenges us to think about our mainstream views of childhood and how those views perpetuate control and coercion of children.

There is a free  Article Library which can be searchd by topic on the Parenting for Social Change website. This can be found from the homepage.

Links:

• Parenting for Social Change (website) - http://www.parentingforsocialchange.com/index.html
• Parenting for Social Change (book) - http://www.parentingforsocialchange.com/about-book.html

Submitted by Shawn Strader on: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 12:06 pm

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control, childhood, child-parent relationships, parenting for social change