Though parenting is one of the most enriching experience in our life, in present times it is increasingly becoming difficult to deal with the issues related to it. These issues could be related to your child’s behavior, academics, relationship, uncertain future, health or expectations mismatch. Most of us, as parents, are grappling with some of these issues related to our child and invariably one or more of them crop up in our mind and manifest themselves as worrisome problems for us.

It is happening not only because of changing needs of the time but also due to ever increasing self-expectations. While at one hand we have hardly been able to be aware of our own issues and challenges, on the other hand as a parent it has become even more difficult for us to handle the situations arising due to complex nature of family unit involving spouse and child. Also, when we are facing various phases of the childhood of our children, most of the times we deal with them under the purview of our own learnings, challenges, biases and frustrations.

This problem becomes more grave because rather than inquiring into our own biases and conditioning, we seek a “technique” or “methodology” or “dos and don’ts” to deal with anything and everything in life whether it is success in career, relationship, money or parenting. Unfortunately there is no key to parenting which can lead you towards successful parenting as the case is for everything else in life. Also there is no guarantee for the outcome but one can definitely be assured of a journey of parenting that is very satisfying and enriching.

Hence it is important that we stop looking at the questions which are only related to the symptoms and look into the questions which help us reflect and inquire gaps at the root of our problems. To be a conscious parent and enjoy the journey of being a parent one needs to be inquiring oneself. In addition to enjoying this journey through Conscious Parenting, you also learn a lot about yourself as both are inter related. We cannot ignore dealing with this mode of self-inquiry any further as it is hurting our experience of being a happy parent and hinders creating happy, intuitive, intelligent and integrated child. At the same time, it is creating a world and society which is exponentially becoming complicated and miserable.

So welcome to the journey of Conscious Parenting and Nurturing Souls is excited to be a part of your parenting. As part of this journey, you would be experiencing a shift in your problem statements.

  • I am worried about the future of my kid, don’t know what he is going to do
  • How can I ensure a successful career for my child
  • My child’s interests seem too risky for his career and life
  • I find it difficult to deal with consistent demand of my teenager on late evening outings and overnight stays
  • How can my child achieve best of everything in life
  • How can I make my child a responsible citizen
  • My child is too shy and does not open up in front of others
  • I want to be the best parent but don’t know how
  • I don’t know how I can give the best to my child which he deserves
  • I generally feel that I am not able to meet my responsibility for my child
  • I find my child developing inferiority complex due to being compared on various aspects of relationship with opposite sex
  • My kids don’t listen to me
  • Increasingly I am finding it very difficult to have a conversation with my child
  • My child takes commitments too lightly
  • My child has stranger anxiety. Don’t know how to help her
  • My child is low on confidence, don’t know how to build his confidence
  • I am facing behavioral issues with my child - how to fix them
  • My child is too much influenced by his friends & classmates, don’t know what to do
  • My child seems to be wasting time on one of his hobbies which I don’t think will be on any use in future
  • My child is not good in studies, sports etc as per my expectation
  • My child is good in something but I want him to be good in something else
  • My child spends too much time on TV / gadgets / social media
  • I hope my child is in the right company
  • I don’t know what’s going on in my child’s mind
  • I feel my child doesn’t open up to me
  • I am not able to become a role model for my child
  • My child is not seeking approval from me
  • Do I know myself well enough to impose my expectation on the child
  • How is the relationship with my spouse impacting the growth of my child
  • Am I conditioning my child unknowingly
  • Am I creating a conflict in my child
  • Am I making my child attached to the possessions and ambitions
  • How are we encouraging the spirit of inquiry in a child
  • What is the meaning of right education for a child
  • What is the meaning of true love to a child
  • Am I passing my sufferings to my child and creating a form of possessive self-pity
  • Am I helping my child to be sensitive, intelligent and integrated
  • Am I making my child a mere projection of my desires and fears
  • Am I overdosing my children
  • Are we making him feel blamed for the issues in family
  • Are my children too consumed by doing
  • Do I take my children as my awakeners
  • Am I developing the right life skills in my child or am I just focused on his materialistic success
  • What does it mean to raise a free human being in my child
  • Do I measure my success as a parent by the quality of the relationship or by how effectively I can control my child
  • Do I speak to my child as if she is destined for success
  • Am I trying to make my child successful just so that I will feel successful
  • Do I recognise that I am responsible to my child and not for her
  • Do I focus more on what my child does or on who she is becoming
  • Are rewards and punishment making my child take actions only based on consequence
  • Why do I compare my child