This latest iteration of writing about parenting feels new, but Facebook reminds me that I’ve been talking about parenting for a long time.

It also reminds me that your theory, your framing, and your intention can be right but your practice can be off. While I intellectually understood that “whupping” was wrong and could take that off the table, I still held fast to other punitive, controlling, corporal, and disrespectful ways of parenting that caused harm to my child.

Self-compassion is critical on this journey of parenting. It’s one of the strongest parenting tools that I have.

I guess I’ll keep talking my talk.