🎙️TMIT 15: Accountability & Respect🫡

Serious words, not-so-serious conversation

Hi friends,

This week, we’re digging into two big (and often misunderstood) words: accountability and respect.

We’re rethinking both terms as parents now. And we’re experimenting with how to model emotional accountability and make room for our kids’ (sometimes very different) experiences without losing ourselves in the process.

This episode includes:

  • Why intent isn’t enough—and what we want our kids to understand about impact

  • Our family’s “Heart Repair” practice and how it’s grounded in non-violent communication (thanks to Cocoplum Nature School for introducing us to this practice!)

  • How peer orientation pulled Greg away from his family too soon, and his reflections on “the lost years”

  • A new family experiment: The Heart Repair Journal

  • Why the hardest part of repair is reflecting back what we heard

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TMIT About Accountability & Respect

  When we expect kids to own their actions and give them the tools to repair, we teach them how to be powerful and stay connected.

As usual, we’re far from perfect. But we’re here to practice deliberately and scaffold the skills we hope to see morph into tenets of our family culture. 

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Respectfully yours,
Danielle + Greg

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