by Joy Bettles
Recently, I have really enjoyed being involved in producing our first ever podcast on the topic of ‘Restorative Parenting’.
Over the past couple of months, Crystena Parker-Shandal, Justine Andreu Darling, Lindsey Pointer, and I have gathered for a series of conversations on our reflections and journeys in incorporating restorative principles in our family lives. It has been so encouraging to connect with other like-minded parents and to discuss the joys and challenges of living restoratively and modelling restorative justice and practice with our children.
In the first episode (released today!), we briefly shared some of what we consider to be key components to restorative parenting, and opened up about some of the highs and lows of restorative parenting.
This and future episodes will cover:
What is restorative parenting?
Highs and lows of restorative parenting
Helping our children develop emotional awareness and vocabulary
Working through sibling conflict and rivalry
Building our own capacity for restorative responses
We are hoping that this will open up a wider discussion with others of you who also want to share your journey of restorative parenting! Please send us a message on social media or email joy@minthouseoxford.co.uk if you have something to share or if you would like to be invited to future online meetups (we already have one scheduled for the 22nd of May 2023).
In this season of the podcast we gathered around the shared experience of motherhood with young children, but we would love to hear the perspectives of other parents/fathers, as well as those with tweens, teenagers, and grown children!
Please listen at the links below, and follow/subscribe so that you are notified each time a new episode is released: