What is peaceful parenting?
Peaceful parenting is a respect-based, authoritative parenting style. This means that the parent has high, but reasonable and developmentally appropriate expectations of the child while honoring the child’s human dignity and striving to help the child meet those expectations through loving guidance and support.
Permissiveness; or lack of rules, boundaries, or limitations; is not peaceful because it is not meeting the child’s need for structure, guidance, leadership, and clear expectations. Permissive parenting leads to anxiety. Peaceful parenting helps children develop a strong moral compass, resting assured that their parents are there for them to help them solve problems when they arise.
Children who are parented peacefully do not hide their mistakes, but rather run to their parents for guidance in how to fix their mistakes. They lead their peers in making sound moral judgment, even when peer pressure encourages otherwise. They are less likely than their peers to engage in drug abuse, promiscuity, or delinquent behaviors. Adults who were parented peacefully are the strong, confident, and kind leaders we need so desperately today. Peaceful parenting is revolutionary because it changes the world, one child at a time, to become more loving, kind, compassionate, and empathetic.