Deep Presence and Attention
Okay then, how do we meet the need of our child?
- We ‘tune in’! We become deeply present right here right now!
We use our common sense and strong parental gut feeling to decode what on earth is going on.
And then we do whatever it takes (even if it goes against what we’ve been told is the correct way of disciplining children) to fulfill that need!
This unconditional fulfilling of needs is the strategy of positive parenting’s intuitive sister, attachment parenting.
Attachment parenting is about tuning in to your child to be able read your child in order to get to know your child.
In this way positive parenting and attachment parenting are less concerned with questions of ways to discipline a child because ‘making things work’ is not a question of discipline.
It’s a question of love and connection.
When you really connect to your child and provide your child with what he or she really needs, ‘discipline’ in the old fashion sense is unnecessary.
When you respect your child, your child will respect you and discipline becomes superfluous.
Really, I’m not kidding!
