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SELF-CARE PARENTING

This is where you will find top tips on how to nurture you, the you that is not defined by the role you take on, be that as a parent, a colleague, a friend or a child so that, whatever you do, or wherever you go, in whatever role, you are ready and prepared to commit in full to the job in front of you.


Self-appreciation and knowing your worth
Could we consider that what we accept as our normal may be for us to not know our worth. If that is the case, who is dictating our worth?
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Jul 8, 20242 min read
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'Grump-Pants' parenting
Getting irritated by the smallest thing with your children? welcome to 'grump-pants' parenting.
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
May 7, 20243 min read
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Not speaking up poisons our relationships
Playing the calibrating and calculating ‘not speaking up’ game, is exhausting and poisons our relationships.
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Jan 29, 20243 min read
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Role modelling from the inside out
Have you ever considered what influences you and therefore what you role model for your children? Is it time for an audit?
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Jan 22, 20243 min read
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Do we remember Love?
We may struggle with knowing what Love is, but we can certainly feel what love is not.
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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Parenting doesn't start with the child
Parenting starts before baby arrives and is based on what foundations we have lived for ourselves. Read more...
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Aug 28, 20232 min read
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Do you feel ashamed of how you parent?
In parenting, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ feed shame and shame puts you at the mercy of a model that will keep you searching for answers forever.
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Aug 14, 20233 min read
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Living with Tension
Don’t take constant worry as normal, because it isn’t. Your body is trying to come back to a state of ease. Read more...
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Jul 18, 20234 min read
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Changing the zombie day with a good night's sleep
If one bad night turns into every bad night, we can end up moving through our days like an extra in a zombie film – not a great way to live.
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Mar 28, 20232 min read
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What do we celebrate on 'Mother's Day'?
Is there something way more magnificent to celebrate about mothers on Mothers Day?
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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Quality sleep = Quality day.
Quality sleep is foundational for a quality day. How much we are prepared to embrace it?
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Mar 14, 20232 min read
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Breaking the struggle
Why do we find ourselves creating a chasm of struggle with parenting instead of seeing the gold that lives within us?
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Dec 26, 20222 min read
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Are you running on empty?
Have we been driving on ‘sports mode’ and running our lives on empty? No wonder, there is no space for parenting at the end of the day.
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Dec 12, 20222 min read
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How a speck on the wall becomes a super giant monster...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to not worry about how you parent? This is a must read…
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Nov 28, 20223 min read
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What feeds our thoughts?
Ever questioned the harsh, unkind thoughts we say to ourselves? Time to change the radio station have we tuned our thoughts into.
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Aug 22, 20223 min read
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Backing each other
Do we back each other in our families or criticise each other? Time for a shift of emphasis...
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Jul 25, 20222 min read
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Overwhelm
Could overwhelm be a state of mind we focus on so intently that has us out of balance?
Back 2 Basics Parenting Team
Jun 20, 20223 min read
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