As our fantasies of how wonderful parenting will be come crashing down around us in the presence of a child who causes us to repeatedly "lose it" in the most embarrassing ways, a window opens onto a fundamentally different understanding
of the parenting journey.
 
Conscious parenting is centered in the “growing up” of the parent.

The conscious parenting journey leads within, as—in response to the way our children mirror for us our emotional immaturity—we awaken to our own authentic essence, with which we have long been out of touch.