Restorative Parenting The Mint House (Oxford Centre for Restorative Practice)

We loved having discussions between the four of us, but we want to hear from you! We are hosting an online meet-up over Zoom on Monday the 22nd of May 2023 at 7pm British Summer Time (2pm Eastern) and you are invited to join us to share your highs and lows of restorative parenting.

We would particularly be interested to hear from you who are dads or parents of older children since those perspectives weren’t reflected in season one of the podcast.

If you would like to take part in the meet-up on the 22nd of May or in future similar meet-ups, please send me a message at joy@minthouseoxford.co.uk and I’ll send you the details. You can also find information in the episode description.

Hope to see you there!

The Mint House⁠ is a centre for restorative justice and restorative practice based in Oxford, UK. To find out more, please visit ⁠https://www.minthouseoxford.co.uk/⁠.

How can we be centred parents? (With a lack of time in our lives!) What are common triggers which make it challenging for you to respond restoratively? What helps you to have the inner resources you need to have patience and act restoratively?



We would love to hear from you! Please email us or contact us on social media if you would like to share your own experiences of restorative parenting or if you would like to be invited to future online meetups to have further conversations together. (First meetup planned for Monday 22 May 2023!)



The Mint House⁠ is a centre for restorative justice and restorative practice based in Oxford, UK. To find out more, please visit ⁠https://www.minthouseoxford.co.uk/⁠.

How can we deal with fighting and arguing in a restorative way? How can we help our children to develop their own conflict resolution skills?



Restorative Questions:

What happened?

What were you thinking?

What were you feeling?

Who has been affected?

What do you need to move on?



We would love to hear from you! Please email us or contact us on social media if you would like to share your own experiences of restorative parenting or if you would like to be invited to future online meetups to have further conversations together. (First meetup planned for Monday 22 May 2023!)



The Mint House⁠ is a centre for restorative justice and restorative practice based in Oxford, UK. To find out more, please visit ⁠https://www.minthouseoxford.co.uk/⁠.

How can we practically support our children to develop emotional awareness and vocabulary?



Wally & Freya by Lindsey Pointer: https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781680997910/wally-and-freya/



We would love to hear from you! Please email us or contact us on social media if you would like to share your own experiences of restorative parenting or if you would like to be invited to future online meetups to have further conversations together. (First meetup planned for Monday 22 May 2023!)



The Mint House⁠ is a centre for restorative justice and restorative practice based in Oxford, UK. To find out more, please visit ⁠https://www.minthouseoxford.co.uk/⁠.

What does restorative parenting mean to you? What have been some successes and struggles?



We would love to hear from you! Please email us or contact us on social media if you would like to share your own experiences of restorative parenting or if you would like to be invited to future online meetups to have further conversations together. (First meetup planned for Monday 22 May 2023!)



The Mint House⁠ is a centre for restorative justice and restorative practice based in Oxford, UK. To find out more, please visit ⁠https://www.minthouseoxford.co.uk/⁠.

Coming Soon! The Restorative Parenting podcast from The Mint House will be a space to explore how we can live restoratively as parents and and think about the ways we can help our children develop a restorative mindset and skills. We are by no means experts in parenting but want to share our experiences to support each other as we pursue a restorative lifestyle in family life.

We have three amazing guests joining us for each episode and we are really looking forward to sharing our dialogue with you. Hosted by Joy Bettles, our guests will be Justine Andreu Darling, Crystena Parker-Shandal, and Lindsey Pointer.

Topics will include ‘what is restorative parenting?’, ‘highs and lows of restorative parenting’, ‘helping children to develop emotional awareness and vocabulary’, ‘sibling conflict’, and ‘building our own capacity for restorative responses’.

Episodes will be up soon so please follow or subscribe now so that you get them as soon as they are released!

The Mint House is a centre for restorative justice and restorative practice based in Oxford, UK. For more information visit https://www.minthouseoxford.co.uk/