Intentional Parenting: Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children.
Are We Raising Sound Children or Repeating Patterns? A gentle but honest look at parenting, generational trauma, and intentional motherhood in today’s world. Growing up a picky eater, I heard things like “Look! Your sister has finished her food, why haven't you eaten yours?” I heard statements like “because I said so” and several situations where I was wrongly accused of something, or yelled at, but never got an apology. Back then, I thought that was just what parenting looked like. It was the norm—firm, unquestionable, and built around obedience. Now, as a mother, I often catch myself pausing mid-sentence, wondering: Is this really how I want to raise my children? Am I nurturing them into full, emotionally healthy adults—or am I simply repeating the same parenting scripts handed down to me? The truth is, many of us are raising children while still carrying the weight of our own childhood wounds. We’re navigating parenthood with more awareness than our parents had,...
