I’m not a big fan of labels, but sometimes they can help to clarify yourself to other people. However, often they just confuse an issue even more. I’ve noticed that one such label is “consensual living”. I say this is how we try to live our life, but what exactly does this mean? I have heard [...]
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Aware parents accept the entire range of emotions and listen non-judgmentally to children’s expressions of feelings. They realize that they cannot prevent all sadness, anger, or frustration, and they do not attempt to stop children from releasing painful feelings through crying or raging. – Aletha Solter I’ve never really liked using distractions when Meredith is upset. For a [...] Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. I read somewhere once that children are redirected or told no on average every nine seconds. Now, I have no idea how this stat came to be, because how would you study [...] I have started a few posts and then not actually finished them or hit publish over the last few days. I just don’t really feel like I have much interesting to say right now. But now Meredith is sleeping and I tried to lie down with her and she wouldn’t sleep, so I’m staring at this [...] One thing that video I posted in my last post got me thinking about again is praise. I think most people out there don’t even think there is any controversy or differing opinions on the use of praise. Praise is positive, and therefore must be a good thing, right? At the end of the video, he [...] Katherine over at Our Report Card posted this link on her blog: Ian Dunbar on dog-friendly dog training. It’s a 15 minute talk, but very interesting for dog owners, parents, and really anyone interested in relationships. A lot of what he says is exactly how I feel about being a parent, but he words it much [...] Kris and I had discussed potentially buying Meredith a little swimming pool for the backyard, but decided maybe we’d hold off until next year, as we weren’t sure she would be interested this young anyway. Apparently we were wrong… This is the dog’s water dish outside. It’s not normally this dirty but before she got into [...] I’m no one’s lap dog, you can’t put me on a leash. I saw a lady with her son the other day. They were walking near a road, and when the boy so much as stepped off the sidewalk onto the grass nearest the road, she yelled at him that if he wouldn’t listen and stay [...] We have been pretty busy here, with company, weddings, fairs, and more. Plus, Meredith has been wanting to spend all of her awake time at the park here. Since we’re approaching rainy season and I want to spend less time on the computer anyway (especially now that she’s older), we tend to go there a lot [...] First, Sarah reminded me again about this video and website, Where the hell is Matt?. His videos are a lot of fun. I guarantee they will make you smile. The addendum is about my chores post. Reading it over, I wanted to clarify something. I briefly mentioned that I don’t agree with all the Radical Unschooling concepts but [...] |
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