Attachment Parenting International’s Eight Principles of Parenting is well known to those in the AP community. As I read them a few weeks ago, two of them struck me as excellent ideas for how to reach other women. I started my blog with a zeal to speak out for those whose voices are...
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Look what I can do!
Parenting involves doing so much for children. It’s also about teaching children how to do things for themselves and others, and more importantly, how to continue learning and growing long after their parents have gone! What a privileged position parents are in – to facilitate and observe their children every day as they...
Beautiful Conversations…..
“Beautiful?” I ask “I am here beautiful” he replies “Oh, ok. Are you hungry beautiful?” I say “Yes. Beautiful” he answers…… This is a typical conversation I am having of late with my almost 3-year-old son Rocco, and I am delighted. It is amazing how positive and light the day is when adding that...
The power of Thank You People often say to my children “Gosh you have such good manners,” or “You are so polite,” or “I like the way you say Thank You.” This politeness certainly hasn’t happened overnight and we have by no means ‘drilled it into them’, but instead we have tried to...
Top 10 tips for looking after your kids skin this Summer
1) Water: Keep up your fluids drinking as much water as possible to replace the water you loose through sweating. Your body is 60% water and your skin is the largest living organ in your body, so replacement of fluids is necessary. 2) Balanced diet: A balanced diet can sometimes be hard, and some...
“You’re making me feel bad”
This is a copy of a letter I wrote to explain how TNP works. It became such a good explanation of the way we work that I wanted to share it with you all. All identifying details have been removed. Hi XXXX, I will give you some info on TNP, on how we work...
12 Steps to Gentle Parenting
*From Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages by L.R.Knost available March 2013 It’s been said that it takes twenty-one days to make or break a habit and that change comes easiest and lasts longest when it’s undertaken in small, bite-sized chunks. Those same principles apply when trying to transform...
Skin not meant for Bullets
I heard the news, but it was Convoluted. Something, somewhere hurt. I was the mother running along the street to her child, willing them to be safe. To be alive. Fragments of a mother In her, In me. Running Crying Screaming As she heard the news. Children. Shot. Dead. No! Not my child. My...
5 Things I Have Learned about Bereastfeeding
There is so much misinformation about breastfeeding. Well intentioned people in our lives share urban myths and personal thoughts as though they are fact. People who know nothing of breastfeeding or babies speak with such authority that it is hard not to accept their words as truth. When people speak so confidently we might...
Bad People?
The other day, in our homeschooling group, I happened across a conversation between two mothers regarding stranger safety and how to protect our children and teach them to protect themselves. The one mother had a small daughter, who she described as trusting, while the other said that no matter what, they had to be...
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