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Principles That Guide Our Homeschooling
We’ve been homeschoolers for almost a decade now. And, frankly, I can’t imagine living any differently, nor would I want to. But, for those parents who are, in effect, being forced to choose…
- attachment parenting, connection parenting, conscious parenting, gentle parenting, parenting, Uncategorized, unconditional parenting
Be The Calm
When you are experiencing emotions that cause you to feel anxious, afraid, excited, angry, frustrated or some other form of arousal, are you able to calm down when you hear someone say to…
- connection parenting, conscious parenting, healing trauma, motherhood, parenting, transformative motherhood, unconditional parenting
Lipstick and Triggers
My daughter recently started experimenting with lipstick. And this has brought up all sorts of emotions for me. She will be 14 in June. When I was in 8th grade, my mom started…
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Snapshots of Self-Directed Learning
Self-directed, interest-driven learning is the way humans are designed to learn. Consider the newly mobile child, who has just learned the skill of crawling or moving her body from one place to another. …
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My Childhood is the Genesis of my Parenting
We are not born “knowing” how to be parents. But, we are, all of us, born with a deep-rooted need to connect, to attach to at least one person on whom our survival…
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Of Hoop Skirts and Xbox Games
One of the fundamental principles in the unschooling philosophy is freedom….freedom to choose how to spend one’s time, to direct one’s life in the way that is most meaningful for that person. Living…
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Please Don’t Use My Relationship With My Child To Gain Compliance
My son has cerebral palsy. He was born extremely premature and suffered a brain bleed during the early weeks of his life. His official diagnosis is spastic diplegia. As a result, we are…
- childhood trauma, conscious parenting, healing trauma, motherhood, parenting, unconditional parenting
I AM HERE….YOU ARE SAFE
My son had a major orthopedic surgery back in 2013. At the the time of surgery, he was 9.5 years old. The surgery was necessary to address imbalances in muscle tightness and bone…
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Parenting is a Relationship NOT a Practice
In a culture where “doing” is prioritized over “being”, it is understandable that parenting would be measured by the same standard. There is no shortage of books, articles, and resources that reinforces this…
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Compulsory Schooling and Individual Rights
I begin to connect the dots between compulsory schooling and the underlying, nefarious agenda to slowly remove the rights of parents to “be” parents to their own children, and to break apart the…