Episode 7: Pleasure and Pitfalls of Parenting in the Early Childhood Years

Why are the early childhood and toddler years so important? 

The first 7-8 years, which is what I’m considering early childhood, most professionals in the area of parenting and childhood psychology would say that they are the most important years in any person’s life!

And this is partly because they’re at home, and the rest of the world hasn’t had their influence on them. It’s just a part of life where they absorb everything around them. So often we aren’t aware of how much they absorb, because they don’t express themselves verbally to us. 

Memory starts when a child starts talking. In the pre-verbal years, there aren’t many memories, but that doesn’t mean that there’s not a whole lot of information getting stored in the conscious and the unconscious. 

They’re just little sponges soaking everything up that the environment is giving to them.

Their environment includes a lot of influences.

So these are critical years, and it’s important to know how critical they are.

How you are in your home is how a child will grow up thinking that’s how life is. If there is lots of anger and fighting, or lots of love, or the parents are too busy with work and social life, it all gets absorbed. 

So conscious parenting is about how to raise our kids how we want them to be, by showing them how we want them to be.

In today’s episode, I will go into more detail about what the environment that affects our children includes, and also how our environment as a child affects us as a parent, how we behave, the energy we emit, our moods, and our emotions. 

Then I talk about toddlers, temper tantrums, and why they have temper tantrums, and how to deal with them!

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