643 – Lost in a Performance Orientation: What Really Helps?
Seeing her children under the societal pressure to perform is distressing for this parent, and she wants to know how she can be of real help.
606 – A Deeper Level of Mother, A Deeper Level of Love
The help you want to give your child may not be the help they really need. This conversation shows how motherly love can deepen and change.
599 – Parenting: What Your Child Really Wants from You
John responds to a mother's wish to understand why her young daughter still seems unhappy, despite her best efforts at parenting.
575 – Parenting: What Matters Most
Questions about personal responsibility and what makes us truly human are on the table in this conversation, ranging from global concerns to being the best parent one can be.
545 – From Fighting to Flourishing: A New Way Forward with Your Teenager
For this mother, who is struggling in relation to her teenage daughter, what begins as a hard lesson to learn becomes a beautiful crossroads that will deeply change them both.
527 – The Key to Heartful, Clear Parenting
In this simple, sweet teaching, John describes how to raise a child who will feel safe, seen, and who'll not need to perform for love.
501 – Parenting with Clarity: How to Say ‘No’ to Your Child
How do you say “no” to a child in a way that doesn’t feel restrictive and frustrating? John shares the magic of the “no” that is full of “yes” … a clarity that opens a child to its deeper resources of goodness and love.
466 – Parent Your Child, Parent Your Self
This mother's wish to protect her baby son's purity from the world reveals what it takes to be the best kind of parent she can be, and how this establishes the foundation her child will need as he grows.
437 – Parenting from Your Deepest Clarity
“How can I find me, again?” In the midst of the challenges of being a new mother, the young woman in this dialogue feels that she's lost touch with the depth she once knew. John shares what matters, and gives her a very practical tip.
432 – What Your Children Need in Times of Great Difficulty
With her husband in a coma, the woman in this dialogue shares the extreme difficulty she faces in parenting her children in the midst of this crisis. John shows her how goodness can thrive in hardship and how this deeper perspective can be a nurturing ‘love school’ for all of them.
388 – Co-parenting With Your Ex: How to Stay Clear and Open
Is it possible to navigate the difficulties that arise in divorce and co-parenting from the peaceful way of being that's known in meditation? John and the questioner explore how to live and move from all-weather inner peace.
366 – What You Are Being is What You Are Teaching Your Child
This woman feels the responsibility of bringing a child into this world and wants to know how to raise a child without doing harm. The best parenting is not what we may have thought. Here's what a child really needs from its mother.
