I decide to say NO to say YES

When I understood the great value of NO, I stopped being afraid of it and started loving it as much as I love YES. I stopped being afraid of saying NO to my children and started teaching them the value of saying and respecting NO.

Setting limits, knowing what you want, finding the way often involves saying NO before saying YES.

Why are we so afraid of receiving a NO from our children? A NO from them to us means: “I am ceasing to be like you, to be more like I want to be.”

How does it make me feel to receive a NO? Why does it hurt so much? Is it because I want to control, to do and undo, and I want everyone to think like me?

Among so many educational strategies, we sometimes lose sight of the goal of it all: raising autonomous and authentic people. That includes saying and teaching how to say NO.

That's exactly why I created my conscious motherhood program, to be able to define our motherhood in terms of what we want, what feels natural and good, and to leave aside what we don't want and what doesn't feel good.

Mony