Finding Our Own Edges It seems to be in the air lately. “What do I do about Uncle Bob? He keeps telling me that I’m going to ruin my son the way I’m parenting. It isn’t working for me, but I have no idea what to do about it. I need to preserve this relationship, so I can’t tell him
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Creating Community It was 2004. I had a new baby, my partner was traveling a lot for work, we were all on a special diet, my oldest was having a very hard time with life and I was pulling my hair out. My neighbor told me that I should just go get McDonald’s to make my life easier, but that
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Continuum Concept and Community We’ve been talking with Scott Noelle about creating community. In our final episode of this three-part series, we talk about some real-life examples of how a community of families can come together organically and how our needs and our kids needs change over time. I’ve found in my own experiences of changing needs and changes in
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Continuum Concept and Community Finding and creating community where you are means that you need to find other people who hold some similar values. I remember wanting to find others who answered all the questions the same way I did- vaccination, circumcision, co-sleeping, gentle discipline, extended breastfeeding, healthy whole foods, working outside the home, etc. But the reality was that
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Continuum Concept and Community From the first time I read The Continuum Concept, I was struck by the completely different experiences that indigenous communities had compared to what I was experiencing in my own home alone with my baby all day. I longed for more connection, but had no idea how to create it for myself or my baby. My baby
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As parents, there are times when we are completely perplexed by our child’s behavior. “Why did she hit another child?” “Why did he just explode over that?!” And even, “Why did I just lose it over that?” Then, most importantly, “What can we do that will really, truly help?” When we remember that All Behavior is a Communication, it’s a starting
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Connecting Through Reading, Storytelling, and Singing Reading has always been something that I’ve loved to share with my kids. We’ve explored so many worlds together and have created the shared vocabulary from reading these books together. We enjoy books like Harry Potter and Septimus Heap where there is a whole world fantasy world being created through words. And I have
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Connecting Through Reading, Storytelling, and Singing Guess what?! It’s time for our second podcast and our second in a series with Pam Leo, author of Connection Parenting and founder of The Book Fairy Pantry Project. We hope you enjoyed our first conversation about connecting through reading, storytelling, and singing. Today you’ll have access to Part 2 where we talk about what
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Connecting Through Reading, Storytelling, and Singing It’s today! We’re launching The Consciously Parenting Project’s new podcast! We couldn’t be more excited to start off with one of our favorite parenting authors, Pam Leo. We really enjoyed this conversation about connecting through reading, storytelling, and singing and we hope you will, too. I love having deep and meaningful conversations with people
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A Safe Space for Parents to Talk about Real Challenges About 8 years ago, I started holding online groups. I wanted to create a safe space for parents, wherever they live in the world, to share their experiences and find their own solutions to their challenges. I didn’t want another space where someone tells parents what to do. No one knows their situation and their
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