COME to Simple Dinner. Every Sunday night, 5-8, my house Please bring whatever is already in your kitchen: leftovers, jars of olives, cheese, that foil wrapped experiment, etc. No preparing food. WE MEAN IT. No RSVP Imagine a relaxing evening where you don’t cook a thing or eat out. It is a carefree evening spent over a beautiful meal, catching
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“I’m scaring my kids,” she said as she sat in my office one summer day. “What scares me the most is that I don’t know how to make this different for me or for them.” This is a common theme I hear from parents. They’re feeling completely spent, whether they’re going through a rough patch with their spouse, have just
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The baby was only 3 days old when I received the phone call. It was from a dad and I always know I’m working with a great family when dad is on the phone for the new mama who needs breastfeeding support. And it probably also means that they’re in distress. The new baby girl, Sofi, was chomping at the
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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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My family has dinner together every night. Most days, I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to cook. I don’t want to deal with arguing at the table. I don’t want to work on table manners or conversation skills. Yet, I try to do it every night. The experts, say it matters. We sit at a round table and
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“He drew a circle that shut me out, Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had wit to win. We drew a circle that took him in.” I sang a song in church this past Sunday called Circle. I’d never heard it before it was given to me, but I fell in love with it the moment
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Hi Rebecca, I’ve been meaning to email for a week or so, to give you an update on Timmy’s world since the telling of his birth story. We haven’t told the story for about a week now, but that feels fine – I think both Timmy and I are feeling in a good space right now, either partly or solely
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All behavior is a communication. This is one of the guiding principles of Consciously Parenting. In fact, it is the first principle because it is really important to understand. Our children are constantly telling their stories to us through their behavior. In fact, they’re also telling parts of our stories, too. The question is, are we listening and can we
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Beata, 2 ½, had always been a restless sleeper. It was a challenge to get her to sleep each night, and once asleep she would burrow herself into the side of one of her parents. She woke up screaming inconsolably from her naps each day and many times at night, as well. Sleep training was something that her parents decided
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My oldest son wasn’t a very good sleeper. In fact, I didn’t know how little sleep one could survive on and still talk in complete sentences until he came into my life. When he was diagnosed with colic and reflux, I was told to prop him up to sleep, and to feed him rice cereal in a bottle (which I
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