LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH

The case for universal parenting preparation and education.

We prepare for exams. We prepare for jobs. We train pilots for years before they are trusted with a plane full of people.

But when it comes to becoming a parent—the role that can shape a human being for the rest of their life—we are largely told to just figure it out.

Love is essential.

Love is powerful.

But love is not enough.

Our experiences in childhood don’t simply stay in childhood. The presence—or absence—of safe, responsive caregivers can shape how our nervous system develops, how we experience relationships, how we see ourselves, how we cope with stress, and even our physical and mental health throughout life.

And the effects don’t stop with the individual.

The way we raise children influences how future adults understand power, care, conflict, gender, relationships and responsibility. It shapes the patterns we pass from one generation to the next—and ultimately the kind of society we create, including how we relate to one another and to the planet. 

What if parenting education was not something you sought out only when things went wrong?

What if preparing to raise a human being was considered as essential as preparing for any other responsibility with lifelong consequences?

That is the idea behind Love Is Not Enough.

I’m writing this book because I believe parenting should not be a private test that each generation has to somehow pass on its own. We can do better than simply hoping people will know what to do because they love their children.

We can prepare.

We can repair.

We can give parents the knowledge, tools and support to understand child development, attachment, emotions, the nervous system, relationships and their own childhood patterns—before those patterns are unknowingly passed on.

Because when we support the adults raising children, we change the experience of childhood.

And when we change childhood, we change lives.

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I'm a psychologist, Aware Parenting Coach, and the founder of Mamamariacoach.

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