6 Ways to Raise an Activist | Parent Allies


  Today we are grateful to the brilliant Yolanda Williams of Parenting Decolonized for sharing her wisdom as we launch our Parent Allies: Normalise feature.  Normalise brings the focus on all sorts of different families who are living child rights in their homes because we recognise that too often in this online parenting world there is an assumption that the audience…

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NVC and radical generosity


This time round we’d like to introduce you to Miki Kashtan, author and teacher of NVC. Miki supports people to live courageously and authentically and creates tools for people to create lives together based on radical generosity. We love how this offering of hers opens the door more widely for how living with non violent communication can change our lives. NVC is not…

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NVC People – Interview with Cath Burke | Parent Allies


‘NVC guides us in reframing how we express ourselves and hear others. Instead of habitual, automatic reactions, our words become conscious responses based firmly on awareness of what we are perceiving, feeling and wanting. We are led to express ourselves honestly and with clarity, while simultaneously paying others a respectful and empathic attention. In any exchange, we come to hear…

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How to become a parent ally after a traumatic childhood

Becoming a Parent Ally after a traumatic childhood


We are so grateful to Rebecca C for sharing her story here with us. It comes with a trigger warning, descriptions of childhood trauma. Love and courage to you as you read her story.  The first time I remember disassociating from abuse I was eight years old.  I vividly remember where my brain took me, to a play kitchen I had…

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HUMAN RIGHTS BEGIN AT HOME

What do child rights look like in the family home?


The importance of the family There is no place more important or influential for a young person than their family. It is where they develop and grow, the base of physical and emotional wellbeing and where life-long relationships are forged. The family also presents a unique opportunity for young people to experience their human rights, as laid out in UN…

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