Children are different moment to moment, day to day, at different ages, and from each other.  Regardless of whose children or how they may have been raised, we depend on our yoga and meditation practice to teach us flexibility, self-awareness, creativity, strength, courage, sensitivity, grit, humor, compassion and more, all qualities required in parenting.  We can use these skills with our children, step-children, grown children, other people's children and each other.