Your Kids Dont Suck: Cultivating Closeness with your Kids through Non-Coercive, Conscious Parenting

Author: Rythea Lee and Cara Tedstone

Non-coercive, conscious parenting is a radical departure from mainstream, traditional parenting practices. The essence of the mindset involves collaboration and mutuality with our children.Through in-depth discussion and disclosure, therapists and parents Rythea and Cara explore the personal and societal challenges of choosing this uncommon parenting philosophy. The intention behind this podcast is to empower parents with education and tools to help them dismantle the patterns that cause power struggles, disconnection, and stress within our family systems.This podcast is fun, punchy, vulnerable, and exploratory. Let's dive in and grow together!
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Siblings and Non-Coercion: How Collaboration Created a Deeper Love With Their Kids
Episode 22
Friday, 21 November, 2025

In this episode, we are joined by Amy Niemczyk, a parent (just like you!) whose family dynamic has drastically shifted since adopting the non-coercive, collaborative parenting philosophy. This is an excellent episode for parents who are searching for concrete tools for navigating kids’ physical expression (like biting) and resolving sibling struggles.Amy and her partner are the parents to four young children who have been on this journey for just over three years. Amy shares how she struggled with letting go of screen time control as her seven year old autonomously navigated balance, and how she turned toward love and not shame to work through weeks of her three year old pinching her. Her stories go deeper than the parent-child dynamic, seeping into the sibling relationships as well. Rythea and Cara are moved by Amy’s earnest and heart-felt admission of the changes she’s experienced with her children: how removing authority from her parenting paradigm revealed a deep love both with her children and within herself. Key topics:The tornado faze Guiding kids toward their autonomy Collaborative parenting as a model for repair after ruptureNon-coercive parenting as a deep act of self love and personal healingResources mentioned:Vivek PatelRythea’s Facebook Parent-Support groupRythea’s parent-mentor sessionsCara's Relationship ToolkitSupport YKDSWe (Rythea and Cara) are white, cis-gender, straight, middle-class women living with financial and societal privilege. Our perspectives are limited. We are committed to featuring guests from diverse lived experiences to reflect the realities of a broader parenting community. 25% of proceeds from this podcast go to creators of color who have shaped our work.Rate & Review: Your feedback helps us reach more families who are parenting with presence, resistance, and love. Let us know what this episode stirred in you.