For Parents My first child blossomed into adulthood a couple of years ago. Hers had been an eventful transition with many highs and lows and much joy and heartache for us both. Parenting of the pre-adult phase, I discovered, brings with it many lessons in real life, far beyond the fairytale. My personal experience of this phase of parenting was of a systematic breakdown and recalibration of my beliefs and expectations, as well as an initiation into the other side of what it f

Pre reading for the Exploring Parenting Course What our world means for parents and what parenting means for our radically transforming world. The world into which our children arrive is fundamentally different to the one we were born into which, in turn, impacts the role of parenting. The increase in access to information is possibly one of the most significant shifts. In previous generations, our sources of information were likely to be our parents, print, doctors, lawyers