Ep 61: Unlearn Adult Supremacy & Power-With with Your Child

“Adult supremacy packages this oppression and sells it back to us as a good, normal parenting responsibility. It’s normal to teach, mold, manage, and shape our children to become successful adults. And we don’t even question it.”

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Episode Summary

In this episode, you and I are going to explore one barrier that prevents many of us from meeting our children where they’re at. And that barrier is adult supremacy. Let’s unlearn this pattern of oppression together so that you can shift from power-over your child to power-with with them… most of the time. Then, we’ll pick one adult supremacy pattern to unlearn together and explore one fear that fuels our resistance to change. This episode is part one of our exploration and we’ll continue our unlearning in the following episode.

Full episode transcript here.

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Episode Outline

  • Reviewing power-with

  • Defining Adult Supremacy & Childism

  • Self-compassion for parents and caregivers.

  • Unlearning is Nonlinear.

  • What Adult Supremacy Looks Like.

  • Invitation # 1: Pick one adult supremacy pattern to unlearn

  • Invitation #2: Name our fear that fuels our resistance to change

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