17/11/2025
Millennial parents are doing something remarkable.
For many, parenting isn’t just about raising children, it’s also about reparenting themselves. Revisiting old hurts, learning healthier ways to cope, breaking generational patterns, and choosing to show up differently.
But doing both at the same time?
That takes courage. And it’s hard.
If you’re navigating your own emotional growth while trying to be the parent your children need, please know this: you don’t have to do it all alone.
At UnifiedLife, we support parents who are:
✨ Healing childhood wounds
✨ Learning emotional regulation tools
✨ Wanting to parent differently from how they were raised
✨ Seeking more connection, calm, and confidence in their home
✨ Trying to break cycles and build healthier family patterns
Parenting yourself and your children is a transformative journey, but having a counsellor walk beside you can make the load lighter, the process clearer, and the outcomes more meaningful.
If you’re feeling stretched thin, overwhelmed, or unsure where to start, reaching out for support isn’t a weakness… it’s powerful modelling for your kids.
You deserve support.
Your children deserve a healed, grounded, connected parent.
And both can happen at the same time. 💛
Millennials are rewriting the rules of parenting. Over two-thirds of this generation report that they are actively trying to reparent themselves while raising their own children.
Reparenting is the process of revisiting childhood wounds, learning healthy coping mechanisms, and giving yourself the guidance or support you may have missed as a child. For many millennial parents, this happens simultaneously with the day-to-day demands of raising their kids.
Experts note that this dual approach can be both challenging and transformative. Parents are not only shaping their children’s emotional development, but also addressing their own unmet needs and patterns. By modeling self-awareness and emotional regulation, they can break cycles of trauma and create healthier family dynamics.
Being aware of your own emotional growth while parenting isn’t easy. It requires reflection, patience, and sometimes professional support. Yet the payoff is profound: children benefit from parents who understand themselves better, communicate more effectively, and create emotionally safe environments.
This is the first generation in history experiencing both forms of parenting at once. Millennials are simultaneously raising their children and themselves.
