Minimum Viable Parenting

Setting limits is often the most challenging task when it comes to parenting and it does mean exercising control over the situation and making decisions as a parent. While  we all understand that setting limits is critical, many of us struggle with it. And one of the reasons why, is because parental control is a touchy subject.   In this episode, we talk about setting limits and, more specifically, I frame this conversation around the parents' right and responsibility to exercise control. So if setting limits is a necessity and parental control is not only a right, but a responsibility, why is it so hard to have the confidence to do that as a parent? So the question is really not whether parental control is needed or whether the parent has to have the power of decision, but what kind of control and how to implement it. This is the art of the parenting practice that takes into consideration the power to help the child and prepare them for the future.