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Listening with Our Eyes: How to Respond to Your Child’s Body Language
When Body Language Tips Parents Off Sometimes kids just don’t talk about what’s cooking in their minds. They may be troubled, upset with something and need some guidance, but they’re embarrassed, confused, lost, or maybe just unaware that talking would help. So how do we even know something’s going on? It’s the body language…
Read MoreHelping Children Make Hard Choices
How Do Parents Engage Their Kids About Hard Choices? Children agonize over hard choices. What group of friends to belong to can seem to define who they are. How hard to study may determine the course of their future grades and class placements. Deciding whether to following rules that they disagree with may make them…
Read MoreMake the Most Out of Your Enjoyment of Your Children in 2015
Enjoyment of Your Children Makes Life So Much Fun Articles about children often seem to focus on the stressors they give parents. We read how they misbehave, don’t listen, don’t go to sleep on time, aren’t grateful, change our social lives and are even called “naughty.” This year let’s take a new perspective seeing their…
Read MoreGetting the Most Out of Enjoyment of Our Infants in 2015!
Enjoyment of Babies is A Great Stage of Life Articles about babies often seem to focus on the struggles encountered with infants. We read how they fuss a lot, don’t sleep well, cry for unknown reasons, change our social lives, and create all kinds of new stressors and frustrations mother and fathers were not prepared…
Read MoreBlended Families: How to Achieve Harmony and Make Changing Families Work
How to Make Blended Families Work in a Loving Way Blended families take a long time to work in a harmonious way as the years go by. As children age and parents remarry there are multiple adjustments. So how do the many parents involved help kids adapt early on to prevent future conflicts as the…
Read MoreHelp Your Children & Teens Express Themselves: Artists, Poets, & Storytellers
Helping Children & Teens Express Who They Are Children and teens express themselves through their actions all the time, but not always in words. In fact, did you know that we rely on our unconscious minds much more than our conscious minds? Children and teens have a lot on their minds that they aren’t aware…
Read MoreWONDER: How to Make Childhood Remarkable
How Do I Bring Wonder To My Child’s Life? A child’s mind is filled with wonder if we only capitalize on it as parents. We do this by going inside ourselves to ask questions about our environment and the people that fill our world. Why do we feel different ways at different times? Why do…
Read MoreName Creations: An Inspiring Project that Builds Self-Esteem
*** Welcome to the February 2015 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Do It Yourself This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants are teaching us how to make something useful or try something new. to hang on their doors…
Read MoreThere Are No Ordinary Children
What is This Idea About Being Ordinary? Ordinary is a word some kids use to describe themselves. They wish they had some quality they lack. Yet we also often hear kids of all ages say they want to fit in. Of course, they want to feel they belong. Some want to be popular and…
Read MoreFairness: What Do Kids Mean When They Compare What They Get to Others?
“It’s Not Fair” Do you often hear your child say, “It isn’t fair!” “What about me?” Preschoolers and children often try to figure out how they fit into families. They seem to want to know that whatever is being given out from food to toys that they get their fair share. But what are they…
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