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What is Conscious or Positive Parenting

By Tonia Gooding Conscious, positive parenting is parenting with a plan for a positive outcome. The positive outcome for each child within a family may be different, however there is an underlying fact that parents wish a child to be happy and content in whatever path the child eventually takes, and that, is the most […]

A demanding love

Perhaps today more than ever, the social environment and the media exercise a strong influence on children, one that is far from neutral. Moreover, the tendency exists today to teach values that are acceptable to everyone, perhaps positive in themselves, but generally quite minimal.

Educating in freedom

The human person is marked by the capacity of self-determination: each is free to “construct” who one really is through one’s own free decisions. Freedom is not merely the possibility to choose one option over another, but the capacity of self-dominion in directing one’s actions towards the true good.

The family – a school of love

“God who created man out of love also calls him to love—the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.”[11] Given this reality, the aim of the educational mission of parents cannot be other than teaching how to love.

Parents: the principal and first educators

Everyone can see, although at times only intuitively, that there is a necessary link between the transmission of human life and the responsibility to educate one’s offspring.