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Bonnie Harris, M.S.Ed., Director of Connective Parenting. Bonnie is a parenting and child behavior specialist. She has designed and taught parenting workshops and counseled parents for more than thirty years. Her master’s degree in Early Childhood Education is from Bank Street College in New York City. Bonnie founded The Parent Guidance ...
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Bonnie Harris, MS.Ed., director of Connective Parenting, 30+ years of coaching, teaching, and writing for parents. https://linktr.ee/bonnieharrisparenting. Website: bonnieharris.com.
- Parenting For Relationship
- Trust
- Respect
- Agendas
- The Gap
- The Pause
- The Step Backwards
- Recruiting Playfulness
- Repair
- Changing The Spectacles
Then I came across an approach to parenting which is not just a list of strategies to apply in particular situations, but a way of seeing. It places my relationship with my child at the centre of everything I do as a parent; in fact, often it’s all I need to do as a parent. This approach is called Connective Parenting. My relationship with my child...
I have learned that trust is a choice that we, as parents, can make on a continual basis. I trust that when my son gets upset he is having a problem, not being a problem. I trust that my best is good enough – and that my son’s best is good enough. I trust that he can be safe in the world, and even successful, without being perfect and that I can al...
Too often we ask our children to respect us, without respecting them in return. What meaning can ‘respect’ have if it’s not mutual? I love Connective Parenting because it’s based on the belief that children are human beings, different but as real, whole and integral as adults. I believe that a child at the moment of birth is a whole person. Human b...
I learned about ‘Agendas’. Bonnie Harris uses the word ‘agenda’ to describe what any one person wants in a situation. My agenda might be that I’m tired, want a cup of tea and need my son in bed before I can relax; that I want my son to eat a healthy balanced meal – now; or that in just an hour I need to get the shopping done and finish an article I...
I’ve learned about the ‘Gap’: the difference between what a parent thinks they’re saying, and what a child (or teenager!) thinks they’re hearing. Perfectionism, inherited from my family, taught me to always pay close attention to what wasn’t good enough. What was missing, what fell short, what didn’t measure up. This blinkered vision left little sp...
I’ve learned about the ‘Pause’. These days, when my son begins to react, when he answers me back, says ‘I won’t’ or raises his hand to throw a toy, the first thing I do is pause. In that split second, I stop – look – and listen. I notice the sounds my son is making, the expression on his face, the movements of his body, and the objects (or people) ...
I’ve learned about the step-backward and the about-face. I think that often we are so afraid of losing control of our children or allowing them to get the ‘upper hand’ that sometimes we stick to our guns even when it’s unhelpful or even causes problems. I want to teach my child to be a person able to be flexible, capable of listening to other point...
My son is full of fun, mischief and natural high spirits and once I became able to separate his agenda from mine, I realised this is one of the most adorable things about him. I also realised that my parenting – because I was tired, worried, and needed him to be a ‘good’ child so I could feel like a ‘good’ mother – had me acting like a repressive r...
And I’ve learned about repair. A plane, when flying on autopilot – that is to say, most of the time – does not fly in an undeviating line but tacks back and forth across the route to its destination, constantly making corrections to keep its overall flight on track. I’ll never be perfect. I’ll do things as a parent that I wish I didn’t. I’ll someti...
Connective Parenting has allowed my son and I to cease being adversaries and become a team of two, secure in the knowledge that our tiny team can withstand adversity, challenges and the human fallibility of each of us. Shifting away from “fighting” or “combating” his behaviour has released me from seeing my son as a ‘problem’ – that he is intention...
Jan 24, 2020 · This week’s episode is with Bonnie Harris. Bonnie is a parenting and child behaviour specialist. She has designed and taught parenting workshops and coached parents for more than thirty years. Bonnie is the mother of two adult children and three grandchildren. Bonnie is the author of two books:
The River Center. 1990 - Present 34 years. 46 Concord St. Peterborough, NH. I consider The River Center to be my home base. I hope to always be teaching parents locally and offering the support ...
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It can change your life. Learn how Connective Parenting can get you to the place you want to be. Connective Parenting asks parents to speak to their kids in the same way they want their kids...
Bonnie Harris, director of connective parenting, is a parenting and child behaviour specialist. She has designed and taught parenting workshops and counselled parents for more than 30 years.
