Stop. Start. Continue. | The Gentle-ish Parenting Guide for First-Gen Moms

A GENTLE-ISH PARENTING GUIDE

STOP START CONTINUE

For First-Generation Americans
Breaking Cycles & Building Connection

AMIE BAKARE
The Anxious African Mom

I Love My Parents. And I’m Raising My Kids Differently.

This guide didn’t start as a business idea. It started as lived experience. As a first-generation Sierra Leonean-American mom, I carry the gifts my parents gave me — discipline, faith, grit, ambition, pride — and I also name the emotional tools they didn’t have access to. Not because they didn’t care, but because those tools didn’t exist in the world they were surviving.

“You’re not abandoning your culture by refusing to pass down the painful parts. You’re honoring it by preserving what’s life-giving and releasing what’s harmful.”

STOP

What are you no longer carrying?

Identify what to stop carrying forward from how you were raised.

START

What shifts are you choosing intentionally?

Receive gentle nudges toward what to start doing differently now.

CONTINUE

What cultural gifts deserve to be preserved?

Honor the legacy pieces that are life-giving and worth keeping.

This Guide Is For You If…

  • You love your parents deeply and still feel the gaps
  • You’re navigating grief while raising kids
  • You’re breaking generational cycles in real time — and it’s exhausting
  • You want to practice gentle parenting without erasing your culture
  • You need reflection — not another rulebook

You are not ungrateful. You are evolving.

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Healing while parenting is legacy work.

You don’t have to do it alone.