Biggest Parenting Myth If you allow your child to disrespect you, they will be a disrespectful adult. Truth If you are disrespectful to your child, they may learn to be a disrespectful adult. “You need to receive empathy to become empathetic, you need to experience compassion to be compassionate, you need to see the selflessness of grace in order to be gracious and you need to feel the security of unconditional acceptance in order to accept others and to accept yourself.” J. Milburn Do you extend empathy and grace to yourself? Makes it hard to extend empathy to our children when we did not experience it. It can feel really unfair that it is now OUR job to empathize with ourselves… it is unfair ❤️ The good news? Extending empathy and grace to yourself might be hard but it is not “hard work.” It is significantly less work than beating ourselves up, we just need to care enough about ourselves to stop being our own harshest critic. The Guide to Survival Mode Plans talks about how to give yourself grace in these moments and begin to change your inner dialogue ❤️ @responsive_parenting #responsiveparenting #jmilburn #modelgrace #bethechange #kindness #parenthood #innerchildhealing #healingjourney #motherhood #parents #parentlife #dadlife #feeling #fatherhood #momlife #endchildism #toddlerlife #kidlife #realtalk #childhood #knowledge #mythbusted https://www.instagram.com/responsive_parenting/p/CXzTOxKrP-z/?utm_medium=tumblr