From her decades of work with families, educator Katia Saalfrank has developed an exercise for parents who can help in difficult situations with children: "Stay in the here and now.At the moment with a child and look at it.Then feel what happens to your body when you look at your child and look directly into his eyes.You will then notice that you either have little access to perceive your sensations.So you can breathe again and get yourself more consciously in the moment.Or you will be able to feel your connection.Then stay consciously in the sensation and take care of what your body tells you that connection between you and your child has just arisen and how it feels."
According to Saalfrank, it is a major part that can help to stay in the here and now with our children and in connection with ourselves.."In my online course summer academy children better understand, I work a lot with this possibility and also in my new book, which appears in September, the journey to a happy parent-child relationship I explain the connections between thoughts, feelings and oursBody, "says the pedagogue.
Understanding children better always means understanding themselves better.In this sense, the trip to the happy parent-child relationship is primarily a journey to itself, adds Saalfrank.
