Compassionate Parenting: Meeting needs - Part 2

When your needs are met it is easier to meet your child's needs, too.



What needs -- yours and your child's -- aren't currently being met as well as you would like?


Make a list of doable, inexpensive strategies that could fulfill each of these needs, and this week do at least one thing to meet each of them.
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Having kids around you can be draining physically and emotionally. When you don't look after your own needs to ensure that you are prepared for your day, it can take a huge toll on you and, by proxy, your child.
 
When you are getting ready for your day, and you know you will be interacting with a variety of people, you need to ensure that your own personal needs are met. If they aren't, it can adversely affect your relationships and your mental health.
 
Personal needs, in summary, are the following:

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The negative repercussions of meeting your own needs are numerous, not to mention the effect it will have on those around you. Each day, work towards actively and consciously meeting at least one of those needs.
 
Examples can be endless.
 
For integrity, create something beautiful to you, be it artwork or a website or even a catch phrase. Anything that you create that means a lot to you. You don't have to share it with anyone else, this is for yourself.
 
For spiritual communion, if you aren't religious, could be going for a walk in the crisp beautiful autumn air and embracing the beautiful and pure state of nature.
 
The list could go on.
 
What are ways you could meet your needs? Come up with some unique ones, and please share them!
 
Peace and serenity,
 
Simply Me

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