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Tag Archives: parent-child relations
The Connection is Magic
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": Everything I talk about on this blog (and I mean everything) aims at, is founded in, and relies on developing and maintaining a powerful bond with our children. The bond is the link … Continue reading →
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The (Very) Bottom Line
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": My esteemed partner/lover/child-tender/magic-maker, Natalie, and I have been talking (as some couples do…) about parenting – and other stuff — for as long as we have been together. It is something we do, … Continue reading →
Curiosity Never Killed a Cat (nor Undercut a Relationship)
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": The other day I wrote a post about letting kids express their curosity, and drive to explore, and entertaining as many of their questions as humanly possible – whether they are asking … Continue reading →
Parenting Doesn’t Have to Suck
I’ve talked about this before in some detail, but when I read Glennon Melton’s year old article, “Don’t Carpe Diem“, about how hard she thinks parenting is, I was thrown once more into a theoretical tizzy, and tantrum-like even stomped … Continue reading →
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Fostering the "Why?"
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": “Previously, on A Beautiful Place of the World,”… I spent some time discussing the heretical idea of reconsidering our parental requests before and after we make them, and the idea of negotiating with our kids to … Continue reading →
One X One
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": As many of you already know, we have three daughters in our home. They play together ceaselessly, and can subsist with very little external entertainment. In fact, it is most often rather … Continue reading →
Playing to Your Audience
In the last post, which incidentally was a reblog, I was discussing some of the unfortunate parts of our having to parent in front of the audience of other parents, family, and random onlookers in any social situation. I was … Continue reading →
"Sharing is (S)caring" or the Art of Performance Parenting
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": It’s a little bit of a shame that we all have to parent on parade. It has its good sides, I know, but more often than not, the visibility of our children, … Continue reading →
(Back to) the Basics V: Who’s the Boss
Today, I want to return to this (increasingly in-depth!) series on basic tools, perspectives, and approaches for Natural Parenting, Attachment Parenting, Cro-Magnon Parenting — whatever your favorite monicker. Before I do that, though, here are links to all of the … Continue reading →
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Re-consideration
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": Have you ever thought about how much you ask of your child(ren) on a daily basis? Have you ever (even once) stopped to consider whether or not your current request — or … Continue reading →
Self-Perpetuating Parent Head Seeks Respite
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all just carry our more difficult feelings around in a little resealable pouch in our pockets? Or stow them away in a hermetically sealed plastic … Continue reading →
"Stay[ing] Safe"
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": We all want our children to be safe, right? Of course we do. In fact, this simple drive is so much a part of being a parent that most of us wouldn’t … Continue reading →
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Training Wheels for Toddler Negotiations
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": As an additional part to the previous posts on the subject, I wanted to spend a little time discussing how to handle avoiding praise, punishment, and other coercive methods with little ones … Continue reading →
(Back to) the Basics pt III: Mirror, Mirror, Two Feet Tall
At long last, I am happily returning this week with a new installment in a series of posts I began last January called (Back to) the Basics for all of you new and renewed parents looking to invent, reinvent, or … Continue reading →
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Building an Emotionally Safe Household
My highly esteemed partner, Natalie (that’s her, being the human pillow), wrote the article below for Mothering Magazine (before they went paperless…) and it so perfectly encapsulates the sum total of our approach to being with our kids through all of their emotions … Continue reading →
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