Being a parent is difficult, it changes life.

Being a parent is an opportunity to re-discover our own self.

Being a parent is un-learning, learning, and questioning the established norms.

Being a parent is being at peace with ourselves and striving to make this world a better place for our children.

The birth of child is also the birth of a parent, a blessing to witness nature’s miracles . As parents, we begin to re-discover the life with our children; starting with the basic needs of food, sleep, clothes of a newborn. We communicate with a new life in a language known to us. The language of love, care, sound and expressions. We feel responsible to protect our children and create safe environment for them. Children grow, and with them, we, their parents also grow.

Parenting is not a process of training a child to become an adult. It is not a hierarchy to be honoured between a grown up adult and a growing to be an adult. Parenting is also not a journey between different milestones in mind, space and time.

Parenting is living a parent’s life, which , if it has any pattern, is close to elliptical movements of earth’s orbit stretching far left and far right while also changing its plane. Parenting is living a parent’s life, continuously striving for love, security, and purpose while making conscious and unconscious choices about ourselves and about our children.

We all aim to make conscious choices in our lives.

Parenting choices are a unique blend of our self-awareness, aspirations, information available to us, cultural and religious context and intergenerational intuition. Our self-awareness, life’s aspirations and information available keep changing with time. Cultural and religious context tend to remain constant for an extended period while intergenerational intuition also changes with our deeper self-awareness.

I believe conscious parenting is about making conscious choices in a parents life. As parents, our life passes through different phases, which requires different kinds of information and support system for making conscious choices.

I am striving to be more aware about self and the world around, create safe spaces for parents to build stronger connections with their children.

I write more about conscious parenting on Chaitanya Conscious Parenting blog.