The Change

2010

I am reading The Big Book of Unschooling by Sandra Dodd right now. It is the most perfect book I have ever read on parenting- and I've read more than my fair share of parenting books. There is no talk of how to control or manipulate your child into submission with in it's pages, but how to connect and create a loving relationship built on trust and respect. It's been a refreshing change of perspective.

While reading this book I feel like I am transforming.  I feel free! Free from authoritarian parenting, rules and punishments.  Free to be kind to my child. All the time. Even in his harder moments.

I feel free from the burden of trying to fix him.  I can see he is perfect the way he is and always has been.