Regenerative Parenting

As fathers and mothers, we are incubators of a generation:

Our children are the seeds of a new, living and collective world. From the perspective of regenerative culture, we can care, nurture and educate our children and adolescents so that they themselves are agents of regeneration that the planet and society need on all fronts.

Regenerative Parenting is more than just a new term in the tangle of trends and hashtags in our vast network. Even though the concept is not fully widespread, it is easy to understand if we think about parental actions that encompass better-known practices such as positive parenting and non-violent communication.

If we visit the conceptions of childhood and the treatment reserved for children from different indigenous ethnicities:

For example, we come even closer to the heart of the matter: these people, closely linked to nature and the community, pay close attention to their children's transformative potential and the importance of their actions beyond the domestic environment.

We also need to find the best measure for full and natural parenting, less idealized and loaded with missions that often lead fathers and mothers to exhaustion.

Present nature as a physical and spiritual extension of all of us:

The most efficient tools for regeneration and many of the most important lessons we can teach children are in the backyard, in the square, in the enchantment promoted by the wind, the sky, the land or the sea.

It is in physical contact with natural elements that a relationship of empathy with the Earth is established, the dimension of belonging to a greater whole. And it is also by exalting the power of these elements and phenomena that we can inspire in children a divine connection between us, humans, and other natural beings and forces.

Support and be supported in a supportive network:

In a not too distant time, fathers and mothers relied on grandparents, uncles and neighbors to raise their children. This support network was fundamental for strengthening family and community relationships, and created a very efficient collaborative system for everyone, including the children themselves.

"It is very important for a child's emotional development that they feel loved by others, in other ways," says Lucia Rosenberg, psychotherapist.

Celebrate ancestry:

In more traditional societies, grandfathers and grandmothers have always been co-creators, in addition to serving as guardians of memory, ancestry and values ​​such as hierarchy and respect.

Knowing the past, the roots and the paths that brought us here is essential for building identity and also for measuring our social role in the family nucleus and in the community that shapes us.

Embrace kind, decentralized authority:

From the perspective of positive parenting, the logic of an authority that is imposed from the top down, with punishment for the child who does not respond to adult commands, is discarded.

Seeking the decentralization of authority is even more disruptive: when we understand that there is much knowledge and power beyond those we know at home, we open ourselves up to respecting not just fathers and mothers, but people, living beings and contexts different from our own.

Stimulate autonomy:

When they calmly understand the various laws and authorities that govern the world, children learn more than respecting externally established limits: they learn to identify their own limits and begin to expand autonomy, the perception of dangers, the maturation of skills and recognition of their potentials.

Expand the meanings of love:

There is a lot of love in the world beyond that which connects fathers, mothers and children. The affections between siblings, uncles, cousins, grandparents, friends, neighbors, caregivers, teachers and other children generate a very rich chain of affective repertoire.

When they offer and receive love in its most varied forms, the little citizens of future generations are able to give new meanings to the verb, practicing a type of love that is not linked to rewards or remorse.