Whakapapa, Parenting, and Tūpuna Ways

Whakapapa, Parenting, and Tūpuna Ways
Kaupapa|2:27
Elizabeth Emere Harte
Elizabeth Emere Harte
Founder Tūpuna Parenting
Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou

About this kōrero

"‘Walk like you have 3,000 ancestors behind you.’ Our tūpuna raised pēpi in ways full of love and respect—so different from the colonial ways imposed on us.

Let’s remember and reclaim their wisdom.

Open Questions

Thinking about this kōrero, you could get whānau or friends to think a bit more about this with these questions:

  • What ideas have you got about how colonisation might have changed Māori parenting?
  • What do you know about tūpuna parenting?
  • Which stereotypes about Māori parenting do you think we need to break?