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Parenting in a Pandemic:
Child Development Meets Social Justice Parenting
How to practice social justice through your daily parenting and promote your child's development at the same time.
In this PDF workbook & episode...
You'll build the awareness, action, and agility you to "both-and" parenting and social justice practice.
No matter which parenting camp you’re in- attachment, brain-based, respectful, conscious, helicopter (hey, no shame), or winging-it...
You’ll learn:
Three child development essentials (the 3 R’s: reciprocity, regulation, and reconnection) that young children need for wholesome and resilient growth and development.
Concrete ways to apply the 3 R’s into your daily parenting whether it’s during diaper changes, mealtimes, sleep training, screen time, and meltdowns.
Intentional ways to practice and model social justice concepts (power-with, solidarity, and accountability) when you apply the 3 R’s.
A clear framework called In-Out-N-Through™ for using self-reflection (In), storytelling (Out), and body-based practices (Through) to transform from Autopilot to Bold, Conscious, and Decolonized (ABCD) parenting.
“I could have the best intentions and still inadvertently be recreating those intergenerational family patterns with Gabe. I don’t want him to carry on my trauma. And if I can slow down and be a little more intentional about how I react to Gabe in my action. That's one concrete way, I think, that I'll be able to not only heal from my own past but help Gabe to not have to carry that on for himself.”
- Nicole Varela Zatorski
“Nat taught us why the desire to ‘contort, conform and perform’ (to systemic oppression) can be so strong. I often find myself asking, ‘whose goal is this? who says that this is important? Is it this societal pressure that I need to produce for the capitalist system or lose the baby weight and look good for the patriarchy system instead of actually reading my baby and her cues and my cues and what feels and is right for us?’ It really helps me to have compassion on myself too about how hard it can be to make intentional parenting choices.”
- Christine
MEET Nat Vikitsreth,
LCSW, DT, CEIM
Licensed & Decolonized Clinical Psychotherapist &
Child Development Specialist
Nat founded Come Back to Care to support caregivers of young children who want to build families at the intersection of social justice practice and intergenerational family wellness.
Nat collaborates with her families so that they can be all of who they are by unsubscribing from oppressive norms and unlearning their intergenerational family patterns. She does that with a wholehearted compassion, a whole lot of curiosity, and a wholesome liberation practice.
Let's make parenting an act of social justice that promotes your child's development (most of the time)...
Show up intentionally & imperfectly as a caregiver and raise a future social justice leader through your daily parenting.