The Power of Being Present with Mia Moran – Just Breathe: Parenting Your LGBTQ Teen Episode 57

27 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Mia Moran talks with Heather Hester about parenting LGBTQ teens. She argues that hard parenting is okay, that mothers often give away their own power, and that taking short breaks to breathe makes a real difference.

Our job as parents is really to help our kids become themselves, like become who they were born to become, like versus what I thought they should be or what like society thought they should be.
It's really hard to, or really important to say it was hard and that's okay that it was hard. Hard isn't bad. Hard is just hard.
Yeah, we just have more, um, we have more control than we think. Like, we've, especially as, as women, you know, we've been so conditioned to give away control. It just becomes easier to be able to say, I need about 30 minutes.
I just need to breathe.