About the Program

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

In ninety minutes together, we’ll sit with The Little Prince, a 1943 fable of a pilot, a small visitor from another planet, and a fox who teaches him how to love, and with the question it has been quietly putting to parents for more than eighty years: what am I no longer seeing in my child?

Parenting often begins in wonder. But over time, the child before us can disappear beneath expectations, habits, fears, and inherited ideas of what a “good parent” must do.

Through the fox’s lesson in patience, the boa that looks like a hat, and a few gentle tools for reflection, we will explore the scripts we parent from, the ways we recognise or miss our children, and what it might mean to build a bond through ritual, presence, and trust, including the eventual courage to let our children leave.

Who Can Participate

For parents of children at any age. No prior reading of the book required, though re-reading it would be a small joy.

Facilitator

Preeti Balasaria Transactional Analysis Learner Practitioner, with an interest in the scripts, roles, and unspoken rules that shape family life.