My toddler was climbing up onto his little chair, and he fell off. He immediately started crying, and by the sound of it I could tell he was hurt. He didn’t need me to remind him how dangerous it is to climb on chairs. He didn’t need me to put a breast in his mouth to stop the crying. He
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Raising Boys Boys. Whether you’re expecting a boy or already have one in your family, we want to do our best to raise them to be emotionally healthy members of our families and then their own families one day. But how do we do raise emotionally healthy boys? We begin our podcast series about Raising Boys with a conversation between
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Today I wanted to share a tool I came up with recently, along the lines of helping kids with separation. I shared a lot of my experience with my son’s difficulty separating in Podcast Episode #17, which was about educational choices but moved into figuring out our kids’ “growing edge” and supporting them where they are, whether it’s about going to
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Healing Stories For the past couple of weeks, I have joined Rebecca on The Consciously Parenting Podcast to talk about Healing Stories. I have always loved the concept of Healing Stories, and have been privileged to help several families to heal from difficult births and other experiences with this tool. It’s something we do in our family every single day, to heal the small
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Healing Stories Rebecca and Lianne are back again this week to talk about how stories can help with the small hurts and disappointments of everyday life. Story Healing isn’t just a technique to be used when there is trauma, but it can be an effective tool to help move through normal tantrums and upsets. Consciously Parenting Principle #2 reminds us
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Healing Stories Join Rebecca and Lianne March as they discuss Healing Stories in this three-part podcast series. This first episode in the series explains what Healing Stories is all about, as well as more detail about how Healing Stories can help families in the early days and weeks after birth. It’s a common misconception that babies don’t remember things from
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Educating Our Kids Consciously parenting runs through all areas of life, including learning environments. Instead of pushing through life, rolling over and shutting down emotional responses – both in ourselves and with our children – consciously parenting takes a different route. Children’s emotions are allowed, valued, and approached with care. The totality of each individual’s temperament and perspective is welcomed
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Educating Our Kids How do you know when it’s time to leap into the unknown and take a new educational path? Can happiness really be the touchstone we turn to when making family decisions? Most of us grew up without the opportunity to choose our own educational path. Once on a particular path, our culture promotes commitment and follow through.
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“Mama, will you read?” These are words I hear often, and I really cherish them. Sometimes I just don’t have a few minutes to stop what I’m doing and read aloud to my kids, but I really try to say yes anytime I can. My son is 12 years old now, but he still looks at me with the same
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Tell us a little about your family and what healthy eating means to you. Our family has been on the path toward healthier eating since 2004. I really see it as a continuum and feel good about each step we make, trying not to get hung up on perfection or doing it all at once. To me, healthy eating means
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