This week my guest is Iris Chen.
Iris is a writer, unschooler, and founder of the Untigering movement. After starting out as a hardcore tiger mother, she began to untiger when she saw all the negative effects of her authoritarian parenting. Now she’s on a mission to empower others families by promoting mental health, peaceful parenting, and educational freedom for children. She recently moved back to California with her husband and two sons after 16 years of living in China.
Takeaways from the show
Tiger parenting and its cultural meaning
Iris’ experience growing up and how that played into her parenting
How patterns of how you were parented can show up into the subconscious
Shifting to a different way of parenting
Doing the inner work so your relationships with your kids can improve
Holding space for your emotions
Learning to filter assumptions about children and parenting through a lens of love and respect and anti-oppression
The swing from demanding parenting to permissive parenting
Leaning into trust and connection
Having a positive way to manage dysregulation
Taking apart the baggage around making mistakes in parenting
Making mistakes is an opportunity to model ownership, responsibility and humility
Holding mutual respect in the relationships with your children
Bringing awareness to the fact that children are worthy of honor and dignity and certain rights
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