by Lara | Feb 2, 2023 | Raising Resilient Children, Parenting Styles, Mindful Parenting
What does a musical theater production have to do with love? Well, I was about seven years old, and it was the setting for one of my earliest memories of my parents as a couple. In other words, it had dawned on me for the first time (at least consciously) that they...
by Lara | Jan 4, 2023 | Raising Resilient Children, Parenting Styles, Mindful Parenting
I was a scant six months into the journey of parenthood with my first child. All the blogs, books, and fellow playgroup mommies were telling us it was time to sleep train, so we did. We bought Sleeping Through the Night, a respectable and useful text on achieving the...
by Lara | Jun 30, 2022 | Raising Resilient Children, Handling Misbehavior, Parenting Styles, Mindful Parenting
The Swim Meet Incident It was one of those cringe-y times in parenting. Last week, my 9-year-old son crossed the line and got himself into trouble. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say he got kicked out of his swim meet for taking a dare. The dare...
by Paige Trevor | May 4, 2022 | Mindful Parenting, Raising Resilient Children, Parenting Styles
Children have their own mountain to climb… Have we accidentally found ourselves in the terrain of parenting our younger self instead of the actual child that lives in our house? Were we asked to grow up too soon, do too much, and perhaps even parent our own parents?...
by Marjie | May 4, 2022 | Parenting Styles, Newsletter, Community, Alfred Adler
A friend and I were recently thinking together about some challenges. We noticed how our line of reasoning started to sound something like: “If only __(insert stressful situation here)__ wasn’t happening. Then, I’d be able to relax, find my peace, and be a...
by Marjie | Apr 5, 2022 | Raising Resilient Children, Parenting Styles, Mindful Parenting, Teens
When a news commentator claimed that the (then 15-year old) Swedish environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, was simply the puppet of her parent’s agenda, another wryly noted, clearly this commentator never raised a teen! Teens. What comes to mind when you think...
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