Reflection for new Parent Life for 2025

It is the beginning of a New Year - a fresh start, a new chance, new beginnings ....and the pressure is on already it feels like!

We are asked to reflect on the old year and so we do....

*How have we ‘performed’ as parents over the last year

*What did not work for us at all

*What do we want to take forward into the next 12 months?

This week, we want to offer you a different, non-judgmental perspective on our parenting that will help us set meaningful goals for the year ahead while lightening the guilt of what has passed this year.

I don’t know about you, but our inbox is stuffed full of invitations to review, reflect, and reveal what’s gone on in 2024 to help reset for the next 12 months.

Our common reaction to looking back is a feeling of: “Well, I could have done that a lot better, I could have said better, I should have been at X point by now.”

There’s a whole lot of self-judgment in there that can frankly just weighs one down and isn’t helpful. When thinking of our parenting, there’s another layer of guilt piled on top of the “could-have-done-better” list.