In this Lesson

Introduction

Why This Course Exists & How to Get the Most Out of It

Overview

This is not your typical parenting course. You won’t find strategies for “managing” behavior or “motivating” your child. What you’ll find here is something deeper, simpler, and far more transformative: a return to trust, freedom, and truth—for both your child and yourself.

UnParenting is about unlearning what culture told us parenting had to be, and remembering what it always was: connection, presence, and sovereignty.

By Sylvia Brinded-Püls
Founder of A Place To Be
www.aplacetobe.me

What’s the Point of This Course?

This course is designed to help you step back so your child can step into who they really are. It’s about making fewer decisions for them, and creating more space around them—to think, feel, play, choose, grow, and become.

When we free our children from control, pressure, and conditioning, we also begin to free ourselves.

Without layers of fear and programming, a child becomes a confident, balanced, happy human being—connected to their own inner authority.

What’s in the Way?

Generational trauma. Deep-rooted conditioning. A culture that teaches parents to micromanage every moment of a child’s life—and then calls it love. Most of what passes for parenting today is fear dressed up as guidance.

The truth? Your child doesn’t need constant teaching, correcting, fixing, or molding.
They need you to trust them—and to watch what happens when you do.

But Wait… What About Me?

If this sounds simple—but feels incredibly hard—it’s because your mind (not you) has been conditioned, too.

Your thoughts, reactions, and parenting habits are mostly unconscious. They come from voices that aren’t yours—voices of parents, teachers, and a culture obsessed with control. Even when you think you're making a conscious choice, that choice is often just another belief you inherited.

Your mind is not your true authority.

To support your child in becoming free, you must learn to observe your own mind—with curiosity and compassion. That’s why this course goes hand in hand with Rob’s Meditation OS system.

Why You Need Rob’s Meditation OS

If you try to follow this course using willpower or “good intentions,” you’ll hit walls. You’ll lose your temper. You’ll hear yourself lecturing when you promised you wouldn’t. You’ll catch yourself controlling, threatening, or rescuing.

And then you’ll feel guilt or shame.

Instead of powering through, this course invites you to watch:

  • What thoughts just ran through your mind?

  • What fear just got triggered?

  • What are you really trying to control right now?

This is the heart of real unparenting: not replacing one set of rules with another, but freeing yourself from the need for rules at all—because you’re acting from truth, not fear.

Meditation OS gives you the tools to do just that.

What This Course Will Help You Do

  • Stop repeating generational patterns.

  • Build deeper, more respectful relationships with your child.

  • Support your child’s learning, boundaries, emotions, and individuality without coercion.

  • Learn to observe your own behaviors and inner narratives.

  • Let go of fear-based parenting, one reaction at a time.

You’re Not Here to Be Perfect

You’ll mess up. Often. You’ll raise your voice, forget what you learned, or act from fear. That’s okay. That’s where the real work begins.

The goal is not perfection.
The goal is awareness.
And every time you notice yourself slipping into old patterns, you’ve just taken a step toward freedom—for both of you.

Final Words

This course is a starting point, not a finish line. You’ll return to these ideas again and again, each time a little deeper, a little freer. Be patient with yourself. Be kind. And most importantly, be honest.

If questions come up, I’m here. You can always reach out.

Let’s begin.

– Sylvia