March 2011

Mommy and Baby Yoga: The Screaming Practice

March 31, 2011

With my baby just 8 weeks old, I was ready to venture out for some peaceful yoga practice. I couldn’t wait to feel like a piece of “me” was back and feel a splash of calm come over my anxious mind. I wanted to stop thinking, researching and overanalyzing everything about babies. I wanted to [...]

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Doing Something Different to See Something Different

March 30, 2011

Just recently my husband and I decided to change things up a little bit. We live by the principle that if you want to see something different you have to do something different. Meaning that if I don’t like what I see in society as a whole or I don’t like how families are falling [...]

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The “See One, Teach One, Do One” Approach to Teaching

March 29, 2011

Teaching children practical life skills takes more time than we usually think. It’s common for parents to get frustrated with kids who aren’t doing something we think they should know how to do, like putting on socks or shoes, preparing food, putting laundry away, or the ever-popular instruction, “Clean your room!” Tasks like these seem [...]

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Naomi Aldort on Taming the Tiger Mother

March 28, 2011

Naomi Aldort, author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves, discussed parental control in her post, Taming the Tiger Mother, for Life Learning Magazine. Here is an excerpt from the piece, which appeared in the Ask Naomi column: Q: I have read a great deal about Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother [...]

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Interview Series: Dave Taylor

March 24, 2011

We are continuing our interview series with API Contributing Bloggers with Dave Taylor of APparenting.com.  Read on to hear more about his life as a single dad of 3, and his thoughts on parenting preteens and teenagers! Tell us about your family. I’m based in Boulder, Colorado and am a single Dad to three terrific [...]

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Traveling Comforts

March 23, 2011

I’m learning how to give myself permission to want what I want. That means I’m teaching my son how to want what he wants too. I think often of a line from one of my favorite poems, “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver, in regards to this: “You only have to let the soft animal of [...]

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Mother to All

March 22, 2011

“Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.” — Charlotte Gray Since becoming a mother, the above quote rings true [...]

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Wouldn’t It Be Nice?

March 21, 2011

The other day I went grocery shopping with my youngest, my 9 month old. After filling my cart with groceries, we were waiting to check out when I heard the two women behind me in line start talking about how adorable my son was. Soon after, he started getting fussy and without a second thought [...]

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