At the Beginning

In my eyes parenting seems to have lost its way - not totally but there is something that is feeling out of sorts. In my eyes our lives are consumed by the pressure of modern society by: keeping our children constantly 'entertained', feeling stressed as parents, feeling like we are chasing our tails, rushing here there and everywhere, being 'perfect' parents/husbands/wives, feeling exhausted, using the TV as a nanny, need I say more?! We read books that tell us how to parent, we get 'experts' in to tell us what to do with our babies - TOTALLY ignoring our very present inbuilt perfectly made intuition. I believe the art of mothering has been temporarily lost.

I was therefore not surprised at all to read in the papers the other week about children as young as 3 suffering from depression. What is going on??? This is CRAZY - and not only are the children depressed, the adults are too - no surprise there. What a sad and sorry state of affairs we have got ourselves into.

This has so riled me that I am starting The Slow Parenting Movement - to try and bring the pendulum back into balance. I feel desperately sorry for our children (and the parents - but it us who the buck stops with and so it up to us to help ourselves and our future generations).

Our current society is in a bad way - we can see it in the alcohol addiction - particularly in teenagers, our society is more depressed than ever before, children know more about TV and adverts than their own families. SO if you want to join me I would LOVE it.

Thanks to the wonders of research we are learning so much more and this for me is the light at the end of the tunnel because if we can educate our selves we can act accordingly and change how we do things.

Enough for now - but I urge to ponder on what Slow Parenting looks like to you, and how much do you think you implement it in your current life? Could you do more, and what would that look like to you?
Much love, Nixie x